Analysts say the Kremlin is prioritizing its own war against Ukraine, as well as its relations with Gulf nations that don’t want to see a stronger Iran.

Russia launched 315 drones at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was “one of the largest” attacks on the capital Kyiv, with local officials in the southern port city of Odesa also reporting a maternity ward there had been hit.

Russia has announced its readiness to transfer over 2,200 more bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports. In particular, the Russian Ministry stated that it has completed another stage of the transfer of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers' bodies,

Western weapons supplied to Ukraine “must be guaranteed to be reduced and disposed of.” The Russian deputy foreign minister alleged that such weapons on Ukrainian territory “create a huge security threat for Western states as well.