NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin strikes hit across Ukraine hours after Trump says he is talking to Russia about ending war

Igor Korotchenko urged Moscow and Beijing to jointly trick the US into making wrong decision."

Russia watcher Julia Davis

Volodymyr Zelenskyyukrainian President

Poltava, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia - attacks on residential buildings, on civilians, are typical tactics of the Russian army

Head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, said

Attention, due to the attack of the Russian Federation performing strikes on facilities located, among others, in the west of Ukraine, the operation of Polish and allied aviation in our airspace has begun

Warsaw's operation command said

Vladimir Putinrussian President

I don't want to say that.

On whether he had spoken directly to Putin, Trump said

We should have a closed channel (with China) for consultations about...how we constrain the U.S. set red flags for them or maybe push America towards decisions that will ultimately weaken it,

he said