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Videos from social media show fiery explosions at a port in the Kerch Strait late at night, with thick smoke surrounding what appear to be oil tanks. 

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Flights out of all major Moscow airports have been grounded as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes. Authorities said 180 Ukrainian drones had been shot down over Moscow.

Some European leaders have also pushed back against efforts by Britain, France and Germany - known as the E3 - to take the diplomatic lead for Europe in any dialogue with the Kremlin.

A G7 summit this week increased optimism among European and US leaders that the 5-year-long Ukraine-Russia war would be brought to an end.

Zelensky, speaking at the damaged monastery in Kyiv, said he had offered to meet Putin at the G7 summit in France this week or in the United States.

The ministry was cited as saying that the crew had managed to eject and had survived the incident.

Asked whether European countries were interested in Arrow or David's Sling, he said there was also interest in the Iron Dome, a system designed to take out short-range threats.

Russia's Defense Ministry said that the Patriot missile could have misfired because it said Western countries had provided Kyiv with arms whose shelf life had expired.