Volodymyr Zelenskyy challenged Putin to meet him in person in Istanbul, but the Russian president will skip the talks

• What we know on day 1,177 of the invasion

Estonian foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said on Thursday that Russian president Vladimir Putin sending a low-level delegation to Turkey for talks regarding the war in Ukraine was “like a slap in the face.”

Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, citing the air force, reported that Ukraine’s air defences shot down 62 of 110 drones fired at Ukraine overnight by Russia. 29 were lost in the air. It reported that “Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Kyiv, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions were affected by the attack.”