Moscow’s troops have retaken a few villages in a border area that Kyiv’s forces invaded last month and are also advancing steadily in eastern Ukraine.

The strike came as a senior US diplomat said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recently announced – but still confidential – plan for winning the war “can work”

A woman in the capital region was killed during the attack, officials said. Russian air defenses shot down 20 drones around Moscow and almost 150 nationwide, according to the Defense Ministry.

Ukraine said it destroyed a large weapons stockpile in Russia overnight using long-range drones to stage the attack as Kyiv awaits US permission to use western-made missiles in such operations.

Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian military depot and weapons store early on Wednesday, triggering an earthquake-sized explosion, according to multiple reports. Kyiv claimed its attack destroyed military warehouses in Toropets,

A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region. DW has more.