The Russian president spoke in a video message as the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down drones and one missile launched by Russia

Seven frontline regions – Dnipropetrovsk , Donetsk , Luhansk , Kharkiv , Mykolaiv , Sumy and Chernihiv – have received 600 generators as part of humanitarian aid ahead of winter, the Ukrainian ministry of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories wrote on Telegram.

The generators will be used to provide “uninterrupted power supply to social and healthcare institutions” and “staging areas” in the event of blackouts, the ministry said.