RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin claimed a massive air attack on Ukraine today was in response to strikes on Russia by US and British-supplied missiles last week.

The latest attack on 17 energy infrastructure targets comes a day after the White House said that it wanted Ukraine to increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and reducing the age of conscription into its military.

The Russians said that they fired 100 drones and 90 missiles, although the Ukrainian air force claimed to have shot down 76 cruise missiles and three other types of missile as well as 32 drones.