Last month, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, posted a video of himself and Musk’s father, Errol, apparently filmed in a Moscow hotel, in which he said: “We are going to go and cause some trouble.” He had shared a list of places were protests were to take place after the stabbing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was due in Paris on Monday for talks with two dozen European leaders helping Kyiv fight Russia’s invasion, with the war now in its fifth year.

European foreign ministers were also meeting separately in Brussels where they were expected to discuss Ukraine’s needs and Russia’s threats to the continent.

Both Kyiv and its European backers are keen to press home Ukraine’s recent successes and compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the fighting, although Moscow has shown no willingness to compromise despite a yearlong peace effort by the Trump administration.

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France will summon the Russian ambassador to Paris in the coming days over an alleged cyber-hacking campaign that Moscow reportedly carried out against European countries including France, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.

He added that France would also place sanctions on nine Russian individuals and four Russian entities.

“Today, we will publicly condemn a widespread cyber campaign conducted by Russia that aimed to carry out sabotage and spying conducted against a dozen countries,” Barrot told BFM TV.

“We will summon the Russian ambassador to France in the coming days”, he said.

On Monday the UK has designated Russia’s GRU intelligence agency as a terror group under new powers. The designation needs to be approved by parliament before they take effect.

Iran’s IRGC and another Iran-linked group were also banned in the announcement.

Shipping in the Sea of Azov, the route for a quarter of Russia's grain exports, remained restricted on Monday for security reasons following Ukrainian attacks on tankers and other commercial vessels in the area, three industry sources said.

The restrictions to shipping entering and exiting the sea went into force on Friday, Reuters reported, sending Euronext wheat up as much as 4 per cent to a six-week high. Russian authorities have not formally announced the curbs, the sources said.

One source told Reuters commercial vessels could move freely in the Sea of Azov but could not enter or leave through the Kerch Strait, which links it with the Black Sea, and the Azov-Don channel, a navigable waterway linking the Don River with the Sea of Azov.

Russia's agriculture and transport ministries did not respond to a request for comment by Reuters.

Ukraine's Security Service, the SBU, said on Monday it had struck an oil depot in Russia's Stavropol region overnight, as well as three storage tanks at an oil-loading site in the port of Kavkaz in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar.

Ukraine also struck two Russian patrol boats in the Black Sea and car ferries in Kerch, a city in the east of the Crimea peninsula, and at the Kavkaz port, the SBU said.

The local Russian governor confirmed a strike on an industrial facility in the Stavropol region but didn't specify a target.

A Russian attack on a Togolese-flagged civilian merchant vessel killed three crew and injured five, Ukraine's deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba said on Monday.

The vessel was reportedly carrying mineral fertilisers, and was moored in the Odesa region at the time of the attack, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.

Vladimir Putin’s growing unpopularity in Russia means he cannot afford to end the war with Ukraine, as he will be lynched by his own people, one of the president’s greatest personal enemy in the West has warned.

Sir Bill Browder told The Independent’s World of Trouble podcast: “If he does a peace deal, he’ll lose power. If he loses power, then he’ll get strung up from a lamp post.”

The anti-corruption campaigner, who once ran the biggest investment fund in Russia, has fought against Putin for nearly two decades

The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley reports:

The meeting in Paris of the so-called Coalition of the Willing brings together more than 30 countries supporting Ukraine, was expected to include around 25 heads of state and government.

The notably high number of leaders appeared to be a demonstration of long-term commitment to Ukraine and a warning to Russia, as Moscow tests Europe's resilience.

“Everyone in the world sees that Ukraine needs more air defence, more protection of life,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday on social media after the latest overnight attacks across Ukraine.

It is led by leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine.

The Kremlin has said that it will be closely following a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing which is set to take place in Paris on Monday.

In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described the group as a pro-Ukrainian bloc that wants the war with Ukraine to continue.

The Coalition includes leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine.