Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and new U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham met Monday at a British naval base and discussed joint drone projects and Ukraine’s urgent need for ballistic missile interceptors to counter Russian attacks.

Zelenskyy’s visit was the first by a foreign leader since Burnham took office a week ago, and the prime minister said it signaled the U.K.’s “unwavering” support for Kyiv to defend itself against Russia’s 4-year-old, full-scale invasion.

His predecessor, Keir Starmer, was in the Ukrainian capital less than two weeks ago in his last overseas trip before leaving office, and Burnham said he planned to visit soon.

Burnham is the fifth British prime minister Zelenskyy has dealt with since Russia launched the war in 2022.

“You are the first leader I have welcomed in person since taking office, and that is no accident,” Burnham told Zelenskyy. “It is intended to send a very clear message: we are with Ukraine 100%, I am personally with you 100%, and I will honor every commitment this country has made to Ukraine in full.”

Zelenskyy said the two countries’ relationship was “stronger than ever.”

The meeting, aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth docked at Portsmouth on England’s south coast, came a day before Zelenskyy is expected to visit U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.

Burnham said they had “talked at length” about Kyiv’s need for more interceptors to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles, “particularly in terms of Ukraine protecting critical national infrastructure during the winters.”

“We’ve taken away some things that we will now follow up with our partners,” Burnham said after the meeting.

Russia has intensified strikes on gas stations, power facilities and other infrastructure this year in a broad campaign to strain Ukraine’s logistics and energy networks.

Zelenskyy said on X that the leaders also discussed “joint defense production.” Britain and Ukraine already have a deal to work together on new drones, and Zelenskyy told Sky News beforehand that he hoped to build a “big, big factory” in Britain.

They also met more than 200 Ukrainian military personnel who have spent three weeks in Britain for an exercise aimed at strengthening their fighting capabilities and measures to counter mines in the Black Sea, the U.K. government said.

Burnham announced that the U.K. will give Ukraine the intellectual property behind its new “Stone Cloak” electronic warfare system, which is capable of jamming Russian air defenses to stop drones from being detected.

Ukraine has expanded its campaign of frequent drone attacks deep inside Russia that have targeted oil facilities, military factories and, most recently, logistical centers, bringing the war home to millions of Russians and raising pressure on President Vladimir Putin.

The raids have shattered Putin’s narrative of the conflict as something that doesn’t affect the lives of ordinary people in his country. But he has remained undeterred and Russia has ramped up its aerial campaign, regularly bombarding Ukraine with missiles and drones.

Russia again attacked Ukraine overnight with 147 long-range drones, according to Ukraine’s air force, which said it intercepted or jammed 123 of them.

In Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and two injured in attacks on the city that damaged a residential high-rise and several private homes overnight, according to regional administration head Ivan Fedorov.

A Russian strike on the town of Balakliia in the Kharkiv region killed one person and wounded eight, according to Vitalii Karabanov, head of the city military administration.

In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian strikes damaged a kindergarten, residential buildings and infrastructure, injuring a woman and a 6-year-old boy, according to administration head Oleksandr Hanzha.

In the eastern Kharkiv region, regional council member Oleksandr Skoryk said Russian forces destroyed every gas station along the highway between Kharkiv and Poltava, a distance of about 150 kilometers (93 miles). The highway is a key supply route linking Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city and a regional hub close to the Russian border, with central Ukraine.

Romania’s Ministry of National Defense said a drone briefly entered its airspace before crossing the river border into Ukraine, where explosions were subsequently reported. It said two F-16 fighter jets were deployed to monitor airspace.

The drone’s incursion into Romanian airspace marked the fourth such incident in as many days. The three previous drones were all shot down by the NATO member.

In Moscow, Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 276 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Rostov regional Gov. Yuri Slyusar said five people, including a child, were killed when a Ukrainian drone hit an apartment building in Rostov-on-Don. Ukraine’s military General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck an export terminal in Rostov-on-Don, setting it ablaze.

The Ukrainian military said other strikes in the Moscow-held part of the Kherson region targeted a ground relay station used to control drones and a bridge over the Henichesk Strait that Russia uses for military logistics. Russian fuel and supply depots were also hit.

In the city of Belgorod in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone attack injured 12, including two children, according to regional emergency officials.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Ukraine struck an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea, killing a sailor.

In a statement on X on Sunday, Araghchi denounced the attack as a “blatant U.N. Charter violation done at Israel’s behest to drag Europe into its war.” He said he made it clear in calls with the European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the attack “can’t go unanswered.”

Zelenskyy said on X that Ukrainian long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea over the weekend achieved “very good results,” adding the targets included “vessels involved in transporting military cargo linked to Iran, as well as a warship.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha rejected Iran’s threats of retaliation as unjustified and groundless, saying Tehran’s weapons supplies to Russia have made it a direct accomplice to Moscow’s aggression. “Iran has no standing to pretend to be a victim,” he posted on X, and called its references to the U.N. Charter “absurd.”

Sybiha said Iran’s statements were an attempt to divert attention from Russia’s attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea, which would be a focus of an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Monday.

Europe’s years-long crackdown on Google’s business practices is moving into a costly new phase, with the loss of the first case against it under new EU rules paving the way for a wave of private lawsuits seeking up to $10 billion in damages.

Alphabet’s search powerhouse, which has already swallowed billions of euros in EU fines since 2017, is also facing lawsuits from smaller rivals across Europe, according to half a dozen lawyers and litigation funders, and a tally of cases filed in half a dozen nations.

This followed a $1 billion fine – the first imposed under the Digital Markets Act – for favouring its own services and blocking app developers from guiding customers to cheaper alternatives outside its app store, Google Play.

That judgment of persistent misconduct could encourage more parties to sue, lawyers believe. ‘This will lead to a new wave of lawsuits, I suspect,’ said Thomas Hoppner, a partner at Geradin Partners who advised German price comparison platform Idealo for market abuse.

Germany’s largest ever fine for an antitrust violation, a Berlin court ordered Idealo to pay €465 million ($528.9 million) in damages in November.

Under Article 102, specialised search businesses “may seek damages, possibly not only ⁠for the DMA period but also for the years before the DMA breaches,” noted Hoppner, referring to older EU legislation that prohibits enterprises from exploiting a dominating market position.

“The claims are without merit,” Google said.“A Google spokesperson said, ‘We strongly oppose these lawsuits, brought by companies seeking a payout instead of investing in their own products.’

SHOPPING AROUND

The damages claims come as Google has gone on an AI investment spree that has left it burning cash, with Alphabet’s free cash flow becoming negative in the second quarter for the first time as a public business.

They come on top of €10.4 billion EU-led sanctions on Google over the past decade as authorities crack down on Big Tech. The private cases are at various levels, with more in the works and yet to be filed, lawyers and litigation financing businesses said.

When Google began promoting its own comparison shopping service in search results in 2008, traffic to other price comparison sites dropped and complaints were filed, resulting in an EU investigation that led to a €2.42 billion fine in 2017.

Google appealed the decision, but lost in Europe’s top court last year.

Britain’s Foundem pressed its claim from the beginning. In 2022, PriceRunner in Sweden, financed by Klarn, filed a multibillion-dollar claim after Google’s appeal was thrown out.

UK price comparison business Kelkoo, which is seeking billions of pounds from Google in multiple damages claims following the EU judgment against Google’s shopping service, claimed the additional EU penalty could strengthen continuing claims.“This will have some impact from the DMA decision because it proves that Google is still self-referencing even now,” said Kelkoo CEO Richard Stables to Reuters, adding that the DMA decision offered other companies greater space to suit.

This was repeated by Matej Pardo, chief operating officer at litigation financing business LitFin, which is sponsoring two parties suing Google in Amsterdam over its shopping auctions, demanding over $1 billion combined.“There are a lot of these claims being filed now, and probably more that are (being) ⁠prepared,” he said.

Price comparison website Trovaprezzi.it’s parent company Moltiply Group is looking to raise €2.97 billion.

The West Indies were bowled out for 181 in their second innings, setting Pakistan 211 to win the first Test between the two sides.

The hosts had a 29-run lead going into their second innings, but an early collapse saw four wickets go for just 43 runs. Tagenarine Chanderpaul made 35 runs while Justin Greaves made 20 runs before he was sent back to the pavilion. West Indies captain Roston Chase got out for 5 runs when the team total was 93.

At the end of the third day, West Indies were at 126/7, their overall advantage now 155 runs.

The bottom order gained some vital runs as the West Indies innings fell flat at 181 on the fourth day. Shamar Joseph scored 38 runs for the hosts, Jomel Warrican (20) and Kemar Roach (18) scored 20 and 18 runs respectively.

Other West Indies batsmen were Shai Hope 10, Roston Chase 8, Brandon King 5 and Aamir Jangoo 4.

Pakistan’s senior fast bowler Mohammad Abbas performed a fantastic bowling performance to pick up five wickets that helped bowl out the West Indies innings.

The two teams are all set for an entertaining clash in the opening Test and Pakistan currently need 211 runs to win the Test.