The performance is set to take place in the Gazprom Arena, according to a Telegram post on Monday from the stadium.

It comes after West, known as Ye, has faced a series of concert cancellations and performance bans across Europe after making antisemitic remarks, including praise for Adolf Hitler, and the ​use ⁠of Nazi imagery.

Ukrainian army sources told The Times that drones made by two British companies have been used in the past six months to attack targets including oil refineries in Volgograd and near Moscow and logistics hubs.

Russia’s embassy to the UK said in a statement on Monday that the reports “confirm that London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis” and accused Britain of “seeking to contain Russia and inflict maximum damage on it by proxy”.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his deputy head of the presidential office Iryna Mudra on Wednesday, according to a decree published on the president’s website.

A reason was not given for the dismissal but Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies had said earlier in the day that they had identified a group including a deputy head that they suspected of money laundering.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia had the right to regard the direct involvement of Britain in strikes on Russian territory as participation in the war in Ukraine.

His comments came after the Times ⁠newspaper reported on Saturday that ​British-made ⁠drones had been ‌used for long-range strikes against Russia for the first ‌time.

Following the report, Russia’s ‌embassy in London warned Britain of unspecified “consequences” for supplying ⁠drones to Kyiv.

PM Andy Burnham said on Tuesday that Britain would support Ukraine “100%” in its fight against Russia and stand by Kyiv “in ‌its hour of ​need”.

Moscow has previously ‌accused British specialists ⁠of involvement in attacks ⁠on Russian territory, saying Britain’s role ‌would ​be taken “into account” ‌in its response.

The ⁠European Union has welcomed the decision by Albania, Bosnia, ⁠Iceland, ​Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North ⁠Macedonia, Norway and ⁠Ukraine to ​align with ⁠its restrictive ‌measures against Belarus, EU foreign policy ‌chief Kaja Kallas ‌said in a statement ⁠on Tuesday.

In July, the EU Council decided to impose restrictive measures against the country “in ‌view of ​the involvement ‌of Belarus ⁠in the ⁠Russian aggression against ‌Ukraine”.

Authorities were trying to put out a small fire after a drone fell in an industrial area in the city of Ufa in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, the republic’s head Radiy Khabirov said on the messaging app Telegram.

Khabirov added that one of the drones hit an apartment building and a few cars in Ufa, an oil refining hub, leaving one person injured.

Anti-corruption agencies in Ukraine have launched a special operation against lawmakers and presidential advisers on Wednesday, hours before a key vote in parliament for a new defence minister.

The NABU and SAPO agencies released no further details, but the probe poses a fresh headache for Volodymyr Zelensky after ousted defence chief Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell statement late on Tuesday.

Lawmakers were expected to vote on Wednesday on the appointment of Yevhenii Khmara, a former top special forces operative, as Ukraine’s new defence minister after weeks of political turmoil over Fedorov’s ouster.

It was predictable that Russia would respond in its usual menacing fashion to the explosive arrival of British-made drones on its territory. These medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as they’re known in military circles, have participated in a recent Ukrainian campaign that has caused an estimated total of £35bn in economic damage to the Russian Federation.

Resentment at this intervention is palpable in the statement issued by the Russian embassy in London. It accused Britain, absurdly, of being “an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis”.

It was more accurate in identifying this intensification of British and Ukrainian cooperation – very much a mutually advantageous process – as an “escalation”. What it omitted was who it was that launched the illegal and, it turns out, doomed invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.

Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies have said they were carrying out an operation to uncover a “criminal organisation” which was run by current and former lawmakers, and involving high officials from the presidential office.

The agencies did not give the details of the investigation, but said more information would come soon.