Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said it had put Artyom Timofeyev, a Russian citizen who was born in Ukraine, on a national wanted list on suspicion of taking part in the attacks on Russian military airfields,

Nearly 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study, a grisly measure of the human cost of Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked three-year assault on its neighbor.

Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Ukraine with Pope Leo in a telephone call on Wednesday, with the Kremlin claiming the Russian president wanted peace through diplomacy.

Air defense crews in the capital were racing to combat a large-scale bombardment before dawn on Friday, officials said.

Russian ballistic missiles have been launched toward Ukraine from multiple directions, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram Friday.

Russia is vowing to repair the planes that were seen heavily damaged by Ukraine over the weekend in a massive drone attack across multiple airfields.