Chris Partridge
BBC News weapons analyst

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Ukraine used European-supplied F-16s and French-built Mirage-2000 aircraft to help counter the massive Russian aerial attack overnight on the country’s energy infrastructure.

Both jets can use a combination of air-to-air missiles and onboard guns to bring down aerial threats. Targets can be detected by radar onboard the jet. There has been no specific word yet on what were destroyed by the aircraft, but F-16s - piloted by Ukrainians - have already been successful in bringing down cruise missiles and drones, complementing existing air defences such as surface-to-air missile sites.

The French jets were delivered to Ukraine last month and it is the first time they have been used in repelling an aerial attack in this way there.

The F-16s have been in the country since last August, mainly involved in a mission profile called Defensive Counter Air as well as air-to-ground missions.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

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Ukraine's air force says the overnight Russian attack primarily targeted the Ukrainian gas extraction industry.

It involved 67 missiles (including 43 cruise missiles, three Kalibr ballistic missiles and eight Kh-59/69 missiles), as well as 194 drones, the air force says in a statement.

Of them, 33 cruise missiles, one Kh-59/69 missile and 100 drones were shot down, it claims.

F-16 and Mirage 2000 jets were used in repelling the attack. This was the first time French Mirage planes were deployed after arriving in Ukraine a month ago, the Ukrainian air force says.

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It’s been a week since Volodymyr Zelensky had a heated exchange in the Oval Office with Donald Trump and JD Vance – a meeting former US ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley has called "unfortunate".

"But there has been enough communication since then," she tells BBC Radio 5 Live.

"Between the tweets, President Zelensky handled himself very well with the US press after the disastrous meeting - going on Fox News, going on other media.

"And enough is done that he has assuaged President Trump's irritation, and so these steps will go forward."

More reaction to bring you to news of the talks in Saudi Arabia next week.

Matthew Savill, a director of military sciences at Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), says it will come as a relief for Ukrainians and Europeans.

"I think the UK will be relieved as well, because it's clear they've been trying to engineer this behind the scenes and use their influence," Savill tells BBC Radio 5 Live.

"The challenge will be that it doesn't address the underlying concern that the US has taken a pretty antagonistic position towards Ukraine.

"And it doesn't really answer the question at this stage of the terms of those discussions or whether, critically, Europe has managed to force its way into the conversation."

As we've been reporting, talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine will be held next week in Saudi Arabia, with delegations from both the US and Ukraine attending.

Ezra Cohen, a former US defence official, is convinced a peace deal will happen.

"President Trump sees the mineral deal as a key component to keeping the US engaged for decades to come," he tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"President Trump is a master of breaking through stagnant situations. There are many examples of this – the Abraham Accords of the first term, breaking through the stagnation of Middle East peace – and he is doing that again here.

"He is trying to not just rearrange the pieces on the board, he's throwing the pieces on the ground and then resetting them on the board."

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American and Ukrainian delegations will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss what Washington calls an initial ceasefire with Russia.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he'll travel to Saudi Arabia next week, but he won't attend the talks – diplomats will handle that.

Zelensky says he hopes for "a meaningful meeting" and that Kyiv is working towards a "fast and lasting peace".

This comes after Donald Trump held direct talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin and stopped sharing intelligence and providing military aid to Ukraine.

Trump believes Saudi Arabia is best placed to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table. He told reporters last night that both sides want a deal because they have no choice.

Nick Thorpe
Central Europe Correspondent

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The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the EU cannot afford to support Ukraine militarily, prop up the collapsing Ukrainian state, and rearm at the same time.

"A concept is rising in Europe which wants to support Ukraine while destroying Europe economically," Orban tells pro-government public service radio in his weekly interview on Friday morning.

On Thursday evening, Hungary alone refused to support the position of all other 26 EU countries to strongly back Ukraine as it goes into peace talks.

"Hungary is not isolated," Orban told reporters after midnight in Brussels. "The EU is isolated from the US."

He plans to call a "national consultation" to give the Hungarian public a chance to vote against Ukrainian membership in the EU.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

This was the largest-scale Russian attack involving ships based in the Black Sea since the start of the year, Ukrainian navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk says.

He tells Ukrainian TV that they fired up to 20 missiles overnight. But, he goes on, Russia's Black Sea fleet is still "less active" than last year.

See where the Black Sea is in relation to Ukraine and Russia in the map below:

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

At least 18 people, including four children, have been wounded in the overnight Russian attack, local authorities across Ukraine report. So far, there have been no reports of fatalities.

This was the first major attack on multiple locations over several hours, using different types of weapons, since the suspension of US military aid. The energy minister says it targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and gas production facilities.

Here’s a roundup of regional reports listing casualties and damage:

In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, eight people were wounded, and “a critical infrastructure facility” as well as a residential building were damaged, mayor Ihor Terekhov says, external.

Seven people, including two girls aged three and four, were wounded in Slovyansk, eastern Donetsk region, as the town was targeted by two Russian glide bombs, the head of the town’s military administration, Vadym Lyakh, external, says. He adds that about 30 buildings were damaged or destroyed.

Also in Donetsk region, a child was injured in Kramatorsk, the local administration chief, Oleksandr Honcharenko, external, says.

Two people, including a child, were injured outside Myrhorod, central Ukraine, as missile debris fell on their house, the regional administration says, external.

A “production facility” was damaged outside Pryluky, a town east of Kyiv, according to the regional administration chief, Vyacheslav Chaus, external.

In the southern port city of Odesa, energy infrastructure and residential housing were damaged, the local authorities report, external.

In western Ukraine, the local authorities in Ternopil region, external say interruptions to gas supplies to the public are possible after “a critical industrial facility” was targeted. Also in Ukraine’s west, Russia attacked infrastructure in Transcarpathia, but the regional administration says, external air defences intercepted the attack and no damage was caused.

The attack lasted almost all through the night, a Ukrainian volunteer service, external monitoring Russian aerial attacks says.

As we've been reporting, Ukraine says Russia carried out a new wave of attacks overnight on several regions, including Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the east.

Here are the latest pictures from Kharkiv this morning.

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Ukraine's energy company Naftogaz has confirmed an overnight attack on its gas infrastructure – the 17th of its kind, according to the head of the company.

Roman Chumak says there are no reported casualties, but teams are still assessing the damage.

"We are doing and will do everything possible to ensure that the country has gas," Chumak says, praising staff for "their work in extremely difficult conditions".

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Glen Grant, a retired British Army lieutenant colonel, has recently been to Kyiv.

He tells BBC Breakfast he sees no chance of a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia any time soon.

"People need to be clear - what the US is trying to do is get Ukraine to capitulate," he says. "To give in to Russia – there is nothing nice about this at all.

"The reason for that is quite simple. Trump is unable to – or perhaps unwilling to – do anything against Russia, but he senses Ukraine is a weak link in the game, so they are going to try and bully Zelensky – even try again to get him to step down and put in a more compliant president, in the same way as Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria.

"But I just don't see Zelensky will do that," Grant says.

Adam Easton
Warsaw Correspondent

Poland has scrambled aircraft to secure its airspace during Russian strikes on neighbouring western Ukraine, the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command has said.

“Attention, due to the intensive activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, which is carrying out strikes on objects located, among others, in western Ukraine, Polish and allied aircraft have begun operating in our airspace,” the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command said in a brief statement on X.

"The Operational Commander... activated all available forces and resources at his disposal. Duty fighter pairs were scrambled, and ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems reached the highest state of readiness,” the command added.

“The steps taken are aimed at ensuring safety in areas bordering the threatened areas,” it said.

The Operational Command routinely issues such a statement when Russian missile strikes target western Ukraine.

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Ukraine says Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on several regions overnight.

Energy Minister German Galushchenko says Russian forces targeted Ukraine's energy and gas infrastructure in "massive missile and drone" attack.

Officials say the port city of Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the east were subjected to waves of attacks that left energy infrastructure damaged and private homes on fire.

Galushchenko warns that power supplies could be affected and urges people to stay in shelters "as long as the danger continues".

An explosion was heard in Kharkiv at around 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT), according to Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne.

We'll bring you more information on these strikes as we get it.

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky says the US and Ukraine will resume talks in Saudi Arabia next week. He made the announcement in a series of social media posts last night.

This follows what he called a "very productive day" at Thursday's crisis summit in Brussels, where EU leaders backed plans to increase defence spending.

"Ukrainian and American teams have resumed work, and we hope that next week we will have a meaningful meeting," he said.

Zelensky also appeared to refer to a truce plan outlined earlier this week by France's Emmanuel Macron. It proposed a ceasefire in the air and at sea, and an end to attacks on energy and other civilian infrastructure.

Russia has not publicly commented on the French proposals and remains opposed to any peacekeeping force that might be part of a deal.

Meanwhile, in the US, Donald Trump also confirmed the talks, with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff saying the aim was to "get down the framework for a peace agreement".

We'll bring you the latest updates throughout the day.