Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two on Friday with a military parade attended by dozens of world leaders, including China's Xi Jinping. TASS reported that Lynne Tracy, the US ambassador to Russia, had not been a spectator at the Moscow parade.

Kyiv accused Moscow of breaching its own ceasefire on Thursday, saying Russian forces struck hundreds of times along the front lines and launched guided bombs that killed and wounded civilians in several Ukrainian cities.