Russia struck various sites in Ukraine on Friday, including a defense event on the outskirts of Kyiv thought to be showcasing aerial defense technologies like drones.

Sometimes fatal attacks elsewhere in the country disrupted power supplies in five separate regions.

Meanwhile, Ukraine again struck facilities belonging to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, this time in President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg.

And in the skies over Romania, NATO jets downed a stray drone on Friday morning, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Across the Atlantic, the White House said President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would hold talks on Tuesday of next week, almost four and a half years after Russia's full scale invasion.The strikes came soon after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with representatives of US weapons manufacturer Raytheon, which makes the mobile Patriot missile interceptor SAMsImage: State Emergency Service of Ukraine