Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, a Reuters witness said, as Russia was hitting Ukraine with drones and missiles in the early hours of Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on European allies to provide additional ballistic missile defences to Ukraine in a statement on X detailing Russia's drone and missile attacks against the country overnight.
"This week, our European allies made important decisions to strengthen Ukrainian air defense. It is important that these are also supplemented by additional ballistic missile defense packages, first and foremost through PURL," he said.
PURL, which stands for the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, is a joint NATO-U.S. procurement mechanism intended to fund and supply U.S. manufactured military equipment and air defence systems to Ukraine.
The Russian army launched 88 strikes against Ukraine in the past day, dropping 294 guided air bombs, Ukraine's General Staff has said
Attempts by Russian troops to break through Ukraine's defences were thwarted around the southern Ukrainian city of Lyman, the General Staff added.
Near the city of Orikhiv, Ukrainian soldiers stopped four attempts by the Russian army to advance towards the settlements of Mala Tokmachka, Novoandriivka, and Lukhanyivske.
A Ukrainian drone strike has forced Russian energy firm Lukoil to halt crude processing at its NORSI refinery in the town of Kstovo in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The oil refinery is the fourth largest in Russia.
On Wednesday, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence posted a video of what it said was the refinery in Kstovo, showing it on fire and large amounts of smoke coming from it.
European Union countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland, are urging Brussels to revive efforts to use immobilised Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
A letter from a coalition of states to the European Commission will call on the EU's executive to restart work on plans to fund Ukraine using Russian central bank assets, the FT reported.
A U.S. senator sponsoring a bill for wide-ranging sanctions on Russia said on Wednesday he was hopeful it would pass the House of Representatives next month and be a "sledgehammer" to President Vladimir Putin's efforts to fund his war in Ukraine.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut who met with Ukrainian President and senior officials during a visit to Kyiv, said the bill had strong Republican support in the House, after comfortably passing an initial Senate vote last month.
"Putin understands only force," Blumenthal told a news conference. "And the Russia sanctions bill is a sledgehammer that can have the kind of force Putin understands."
A civilian vessel was damaged overnight at the Danube River port of Reni near Ukraine's Izmail, local Ukrainian authorities said on the Telegram messaging app on Thursday.
Reni sits close to Ukraine's borders with Romania and Moldova.
Kyiv authorities, who earlier issued a drone attack alert, said on Telegram that debris had fallen in the courtyard of a residential building and that damage was being assessed.
Ukraine's Armed Forces separately issued a ballistic missile alert for Kyiv.
In Kryvyi Rih, a steel-and-mining hub in central Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, two were injured as missiles hit an industrial facility, and three more were wounded in Zaporizhzhia, officials said.
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