Prime Minister Andy Burnham and US President Donald Trump agreed on the need to “continue working towards a ceasefire that prevented more loss of life” following a fresh wave of talks, Downing Street said.

Mr Burnham spoke with Mr Trump on Monday afternoon.

It follows a visit to Kyiv on Sunday by US envoys, who held talks in an effort to end the conflict with Russia.

A Downing Street spokesperson said: “On Ukraine, the two leaders agreed on the need to continue working towards a ceasefire that prevented more loss of life.

“The Prime Minister reiterated the UK’s support for Ukraine and for recent US-led peace negotiations.

“On the Middle East, the Prime Minister set out the UK’s commitment to working towards peace and security in the region, stressing the importance of the Two-State Solution, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and ensuring that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon.”

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Russian air strikes have killed at least two people and injured seven others in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv this morning, officials said.

The attacks came just a day after US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky and left the Ukrainian capital.

People were also trapped in a residential building and there were fires across Kyiv, mayor Vitali Klitschko said, after what he said were Russian ballistic missile strikes.

Polish Air Force has ended operations related to Russian strikes on Ukraine, Polish army said on X.

“We ⁠inform you that no violations ‌of ​airspace ‌were recorded,” ⁠the ⁠army ‌said.

Hours earlier, Polish airport in Lublin resumed air operations after temporary closure due to operations of military aviation, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) said.

At least one person has been killed in a Ukrainian attack in the Russian town of Starodub in the border area of Bryansk region, the region’s acting governor, Yegor Kovalchuk, said this morning.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged attacks on each other after a brief period of truce observed due to the visit of the US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Russia’s defence ministry wants to claim back part of a one-off payout from contract service personnel found guilty of criminal offences at home, a document showed, amid increasing cases of domestic violence among those fighting Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Russia does not disclose official statistics on ⁠domestic violence committed by its service personnel but independent media, citing military ‌courts data, reported ​hundreds of such cases, including ‌murders, since the start of ​the 2022 invasion.

Russia provides a minimum one-off payment of 400,000 roubles (£3,418) for soldiers signing at least a one-year contract to fight in the war with Ukraine ⁠that Moscow calls “a special military ​operation”.

In practice, one-off payouts may reach a few million roubles per soldier, depending on the region, in addition to a monthly salary.

Russia is also reducing sentences for those serving time in prison in exchange for signing up for the war, among other benefits, as it seeks to bolster army numbers.

Russia has seen a rise in domestic violence as fighters return home for leave, and the defence ministry wants to claim part ⁠of the one-off payments “in order to increase the motivation of military personnel to comply with the law”, in case of a criminal offence, a draft law published on Monday showed.

If active contract service members are found guilty of a criminal offence which does not imply a prison sentence, they should pay back a portion of the one-off payout based on the months of the service left, the document showed.

Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s Kyiv region in an overnight attack, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

“It ​was a ⁠complex ‌attack that the Russians ‌tried to ‌plan to cause as ⁠much harm to life as possible – ballistic missiles, cruise and anti-ship ‌missiles, ​and jet-powered ‘shaheds’,” Zelensky ‌said ⁠on X.

Russia has criticised the deployment of an advanced US missile system to Nato member state Norway, saying on Monday it dealt a further blow to the prospects for US-Russia ⁠talks on strategic nuclear stability.

US media reports said Washington had in August delivered to Norway a missile system that used Mk-41-style launchers capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the deployment posed a threat because the launchers could ⁠be used to fire missiles ​capable ⁠of reaching a substantial part of European Russia, including Moscow.

“Steps such as the deployment in Europe of US ground-based intermediate-range missiles that pose a threat to the Russian Federation ‘reset to zero’, to put it mildly, the conditions for constructive dialogue with the US on strategic issues,” the ministry said in a statement.

It added that Russia would pay “particular attention” to the deployment sites and command-and-control centres ‌of US missile systems and that they would ‌become targets in the event of a military conflict.