The Kyiv region is struck by Iranian-made kamikaze drones overnight and Russian missiles target a five-storey residential building in Mykolaiv - as Russian warns that Ukraine joining NATO could lead to a third world war.

Taiwan says China looking at Ukraine war to develop 'hybrid' strategies

China is observing the war in Ukraine to develop "hybrid warfare" strategies against Taiwan including using drones and psychological pressure, a senior Taiwanese security official claimed today.

Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to inform how it may react if China - which views the democratically ruled island as its own territory - ever threatens to use force to enforce its sovereignty claim.

In August, China mounted military exercises around Taiwan to express its anger at a visit to Taipei by US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and it has maintained its military activities since then, though at a scaled-back pace. 

Speaking in parliament, Taiwan's National Security Bureau director-general Chen Ming-tong said China was also paying attention to what was happening in Ukraine.

"This year, the communist military has borrowed from the experience of the Russia-Ukraine war to develop 'hybrid warfare' against Taiwan and strengthen its combat training and preparation against strong enemies," he said.

China expanded its "grey zone" and hybrid activities against Taiwan following its August drills, especially with the use of drones that have flown both near Taiwan-controlled islands off China's coast and into Taiwan's air defence identification zone, Mr Chen said.

What measures could the West take if there was a nuclear strike and what would it mean for Putin?

Speculation over whether or not Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons has been rife and the consequences could be disastrous for the West and the Russian president

With Russia's invasion stalling and the Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge have both contributed to increased concern Putin could escalate from conventional weapons to a tactical nuclear strike.

The US President Joe Biden said last week that the world was the closest it had been to "Armageddon" at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis, after more sabre rattling from the Kremlin

Boy, 11, who was rescued from Mykolaiv building dies

We reported this morning that a boy had been rescued from the wreckage of a building in Mykolaiv after Russian forces shelled the region.

Footage showed rescue teams carrying the 11-year-old child into an ambulance after he was left trapped under the rubble of a five-story building for more than six hours.

However, regional governor Vitaliy Kim has now said the boy has died after suffering from a cardiac arrest.

"They brought him to the regional hospital for dialysis, and there he had a cardiac arrest. There are no words," Mr Kim said.