for northern ireland, the same across wales. as we head across thursday, a repeat performance. more cloud across northern and eastern areas. furtherwest, cloud across northern and eastern areas. further west, the best of the sunshine. again, the low 20s. we could see temperatures coming down a bit towards the end of the week. always out west we will see the high temperatures, most of the sunshine is we head through friday on the weekend. a little bit cooler and easier towards the east coast. take care. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at ten there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which isjust getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. today s daytime strikes on kyiv mark a change of tactics as does using so many missiles in recent days. there were a0 air launched cruise missiles and 35 drones launched yes
warships in the black sea, being relatively slow and low flying, can be intercepted by fighter planes and anti aircraft gun defences. air launched missiles can also be of the cruise type, like those launched yesterday, or the very much faster kinzhal several of which were fired at kyiv two weeks ago. these so called hypersonic weapons have to be engaged by the most advanced defences the ukrainians have the us patriot system, a battery of which is stationed near kyiv. there are suggestions that in recent days iranian made drones have been fired at kyiv simply to goad ukraine into using up its precious stock of patriots. that s not particularly likely, since these drones fly so low and slow that an advanced missile like that wouldn t be wasted on them but it s all part of russia s attempts to fire different weapons