In response to a recent massive combined Russian airstrike on Ukrainian territory, F-16 fighter jets, provided earlier to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Western partners, were deployed. The pilots of these aircraft shot down seven enemy cruise missiles,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Friday for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to "stop the hot stage of the war." Zelenskyy also implied he would be willing to wait to regain the almost one-fifth of his country that Russia's army has seized,

In a long, wide-ranging interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian president was asked whether he would accept Nato membership, but only on the territory that Kyiv currently holds. Zelensky said he would,

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged the possibility of Ukraine signing a "ceasefire agreement" if the Ukrainian-controlled territory is brought "under the NATO umbrella". Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with Sky News;