Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says it will be his ambition to overcome Vladimir Putin and Russia in the war between neighbouring nations

Zelensky told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos that “it was not us who started the war but it is us who will have to end it.”

Meanwhile, Putin says winning the war in Ukraine will be ‘unavoidable’

This is on the back of a helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb, which killed at least 14 people, including the nation’s Interior Minister.

Dozens of people were injured, including children, many suffering burns, after the French-made Super Puma helicopter went down in the fog in Brovary on the eastern outskirts of Kyiv, plummeting into the nursery grounds.

Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who was on board the helicopter, was among the dead. He was the most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began.

Since Ukraine wrested back significant territory in the east and south in the second half of 2022, front lines have hardened and Kyiv says new Western weapons especially heavy battle tanks are vital for it to regain momentum this year.