Trump has said he would end the war in Ukraine "within 24 hours" but Sergey Lavrov has poured cold water on plans to halt the fighting revealed in an interview.

Russia will scrap a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter range nuclear-capable missiles because the United States has deployed such weapons in various regions around the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.

"The United States arrogantly ignored warnings from Russia and China," Russia's veteran foreign minister told state media.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Russia will lift its moratorium on deploying medium- and short-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Source: Radio Liberty, citing Lavrov in an interview with Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti Details: Lavrov attributed this decision to the deployment of similar weapons by the United States.

Russia launched more than 40 attack drones across the Azov Sea into eastern and central Ukraine overnight, damaging houses in Kharkiv and Odessa, the Ukrainian military said.

Ukraine shot down 21 Russian attack drones overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Dec. 30. According to the report, Russia launched a total of 43 drones from its Krasnodar Krai region. The Air Force said it also lost track of the 22 decoy drones that Russia launched alongside the attack ones.

Andriy Yusov, revealed that Ukrainian drones can strike targets in Russia as far as 2,000 kilometres away. Ukrainian long-range drones have gained the ability to attack targets in Russia at distances up to 2,