Russia has removed a senior general in Ukraine for giving misleading reports about the progress of the war as Defence Minister Andrei Belousov tries to clear out poor commanders, pro-Russian war bloggers and Russian media said.

President-elect Trump’s choice for national security advisor, said the Biden administration’s decision to allow Ukraine to use anti-personnel land (APL) mines to mitigate Russia’s battlefield progress has turned the situation into “World War I trench warfare.

Russia and Ukraine have traded air strikes, after a week of intensifying rhetoric in which Russia tested a new missile on Ukraine. Russia has made close to 1,500 strikes on Ukraine since Sunday evening on about half of the country's regions causing dozens of injuries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

A British man has been taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian state media has reported.