Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's counteroffensive "has failed" as he hosted Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko for talks in St Petersburg.Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised Ukraine would retaliate against Russian attacks on Odesa.Here are the other key events you need to know from the last 24 hours: The port city has come under a barrage of attacks over the last week, as Kyiv continues to accuse Moscow of targeting food export facilities after abandoning the grain deal. The attack killed one person and injured scores more. The alleged attack came after a historic Orthodox cathedral in Ukraine's southern Odesa region was badly damaged in a missile strike yesterday. Overnight, Russia's defence ministry claimed to have thwarted a Ukrainian "terrorist attack" on Moscow after downing two drones - we'll bring you more on that shortly. Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine.
"A lot of his rhetoric about 'a storm is coming' is him trying to prepare the international community for the fact that it's not over yet. "We've had President Zelenskyy vowing retribution again for the attacks on Odesa, but the harsh reality from President Zelensky's perspective is the spring offensive is not really going as swiftly as he would have liked," Bell said.
There have also been more attacks on the port city of Odesa, which has been pounded by Russia over the last week as the Black Sea grain deal, which gave it some protection, came to an end. "So we'll have to wait and see as the news comes out about what's actually happened in Moscow." "They always seem much more credible to me because the Ukrainians have been regularly attacking the peninsula of Crimea, sometimes quite successfully," he said. "At the moment, there's very little we can tell about the attack," Bell added, noting there's also been overnight strikes on Crimea.
He explained there are a lot of reasons why Russia would want to "engineer a sense of a fortress" around the capital, and if Ukraine was going to mount a drone attack they would "do it better than this". More now on the alleged Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, with our military analyst Sean Bell saying he is taking everything Russia is saying with a "massive pinch of salt".
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