President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Ukraine was ready for talks with Russia "in any format" once a ceasefire is set, while the Financial Times reported President Vladimir Putin had offered to halt Russia's invasion at the current front lines.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine would be ready to hold talks with Russia in any format once a ceasefire is in place and the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow's forces has stopped.

Authorities in Ukraine say Russian drones have battered the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in a nighttime attack

Ukraine says its air force hit a Russian drone hub, killing operators. The site was used to launch reconnaissance, strike, and FPV drones, it said.

Russian forces launched a mass overnight drone attack on residential areas of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa, triggering fires and damaging many apartments, local officials said early on Tuesday. "The enemy targeted a residential area in a densely populated district of Odesa,