Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean.

Nicolas Maduro has claimed Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key defence positions” amid a growing military threat from the US.

Putin oversaw a nuclear exercise on Wednesday involving Russia's full nuclear triad — land-based, sea-based, and airborne assets.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the United States to expand sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies to the whole sector.

Ukraine's defense ministry said it continues to hit Russia's industries, "weakening the offensive potential of the aggressor state."

The Kremlin said that as part of the maneuvers, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired from northwestern Russia, and a Sineva ICBM was launched by a submarine in the Barents Sea.

European leaders have agreed to meet Ukraine’s “pressing financial needs” for the next two years but stopped short of endorsing a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a loan to Kyiv.

Ukraine is still finding thousands of foreign-made parts in Russian weapons over three and a half years into the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday urged the United States to expand sanctions on Russian oil from two companies to the whole sector, and appealed for long-range missiles to hit back at Russia.

The drone and missile attacks on Ukraine came as the US president put on hold his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest.