But overnight on Tuesday, Ukraine hit a Russian ammunition dump further north in Bryansk.Then, Vladimir Putin signed into law a revised nuclear doctrine that said America would be considered to have attacked Russia if it assisted Kyiv.

Nicholas Drummond, a security and defence expert, told the Daily Express that Mr Trump could give Ukraine nuclear weapons. He said: "In the next four years Russia will rearm, but also Ukraine will recover and rearm and prepare. That preparation could be the US giving Ukraine nuclear weapons.

President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in a post-election phone call, reportedly telling him not to escalate the Ukraine war, according to The Washington Post.