A Ukrainian delegation led by the country's defence minister is in Seoul to ask for weapons to be used in the war, according to South Korean media. Meanwhile, Russian media reports suggest Moscow is still planning to deploy its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on combat duty.

Moscow has vowed to continue testing experimental hypersonic missiles as Vladimir Putin threatened to strike the West in a coded message.Putin warned that Russia would continue to carry out tests of the “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missiles in “combat conditions” following a devastating strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.