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Russian president Vladimir Putin has lowered the bar for using nuclear weapons
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Ukraine has launched its first American-supplied long-range missile strike <\/a>against Vladimir Putin\u2019s<\/a> forces.
US and Ukrainian officials said the strikes struck an ammunition depot Russia\u2019s Bryansk region. Ukraine\u2019s army has acknowledged a strike in the area, but has not said what weapons were used.
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry<\/a> said that that Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMs missiles<\/a>. In a statement reported by Russian news agencies, the ministry said it shot down five of them and damaged one more.
The announcement comes after U.S. president Joe Biden<\/a> authorised Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles to strike hundreds of miles inside Russia for the first time.
It comes as Putin has signed a revised nuclear doctrine<\/a> to lower the bar for future nuclear weapon use<\/a>.
The updated doctrine, first announced in September but signed by Putin this week, declares that an attack using conventional weapons by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will now be considered a joint attack on Russia<\/a>. It does not specify whether a joint attack will trigger a nuclear response.
But the doctrine does declare that a massive aerial attack against Russia could trigger a nuclear response.
Volodymyr Zelensky visited the embattled towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Monday, as their Ukrainian defenders attempt to hold back the Russian onslaught.
In Pokrovsk, Mr Zelensky visited the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade and awarded medals to soldiers. He then oversaw the construction of trenches and \u201cdefensive structures\u201d at an unspecified location in Donetsk.
My Zelensky then headed to the city of Kupiansk, which last week repelled a major Russian attack when two tank convoys attempted to gain a foothold in the city.
Filming himself outside a large Kupiansk sign, Mr Zelensky paid tribute to Ukrainian soldiers, saying \u201cthe strength of our entire Ukrainian army is the people who serve\u201d.
Chinese and Russian foreign ministers discussed bilateral ties, the conflict in Ukraine, and the situation on the Korean peninsula on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Brazil, they said.
\u201cWe are truly at an unprecedented stage in the development of our strategic relations of a comprehensive partnership,\u201d Russia\u2019s Sergei Lavrov told China\u2019s Wang Yi, according to a post on the Russian foreign ministry\u2019s Telegram channel.
Mr Wang said Beijing is willing to work with Russia to further strengthen bilateral \u201ccomprehensive strategic coordination\u201d, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The \u201ctwo sides also exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis and the situation on the Korean Peninsula\u201d, it added without providing further details.
China and Russia have held a series of bilateral meetings since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 1,000 days ago. The war isolated Moscow from Kyiv\u2019s Western allies, bringing waves of sanctions on its politicians and businesses, but pushed it closer to China.
The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war.
It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia<\/a>, Natalia Panasenko\u2019s home for just shy of a year after the town she thinks of as her real home came under Russian occupation. The explosion blasted a door on top of her, smashed her refrigerator and television and shredded the flowers she\u2019d just received for her 63rd birthday.
\u201cThe house was full of people and flowers. People<\/a> were congratulating me … and then there was nothing. Everything was mixed in the rubble,\u201d she said. \u201cI come from a place where the war is going on every day. We only just left there, and it seemed to be quieter here. And the war caught up with us again.\u201d
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The Associated Press fanned out across Ukraine to chronicle a typical 24 hours of life just as the country was about to mark 1,000 days since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022
The US will announce additional security assistance for Ukraine in coming days, the US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said as the United Nations marked 1,000 days since Russia\u2019s invasion of the country.
Ms Thomas-Greenfield said supporting Ukraine in the US Congress and beyond could not and should not be a partisan issue, and that standing up for democracy and human rights was \u201cabove petty politics\u201d and would outlast any one leader.
The damage of two undersea internet cables<\/a> in the Baltic sea must be seen as an act of sabotage, German defence minister<\/a> Boris Pistorius has said.
A pair of fibre-optic communications<\/a> cables were severed on Sunday and Monday, in an incident which \u201cimmediately raises suspicions of intentional damage\u201d, Finland<\/a> and Germany said in a joint statement.
A 745-mile (1,200 kilometre) cable linking Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working at 2am on Monday, according to Finnish state-controlled cyber security and telecoms company Cinia.
Another cable linking Lithuania and Sweden\u2019s Gotland Island went out of service at 8am on Monday, according to a Lithuanian communications firm.
Two cables were cut, which connect Germany to Finland and Lithuania to Sweden
The Ukrainian military has shared its gratitude after Estonia committed a new military aid package to Ukraine.
\u201cWe are grateful to our Estonian friends for a new military aid package which includes ammunition and equipment for 🇺🇦 Defense Forces!\u201d read a post on the military\u2019s X account.
\u201cThank you for your unwavering support! Together, we are stronger!\u201d
Hopefully we will be able to upset Russia<\/a>\u2018s plans by inflicting a lot of damage<\/a> on troop concentrations and arms depots\u201d.
That is the reaction of a Ukrainian colonel \u2013 with close links to the army\u2019s top brass \u2013 to news that Joe Biden had lifted the restriction<\/a> on US-supplied long-range missiles<\/a> being used to target Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces deep inside Russia after months of pleas from Kyiv<\/a>.
A few hours later, on the 1,000th day of the invasion, Moscow claimed the first use of the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ballistic missiles on the Bryansk region of Russia, about 80 miles from the Ukraine<\/a> border. The missiles have a full range of around 190 miles.
Askold Krushelnycky reports:<\/em><\/strong>
Askold Krushelnycky speaks to a colonel who says Kyiv\u2019s forces need to inflict as much pain on Vladimir Putin\u2019s army as quickly as they can
Russia is ready to normalise its relations with the United States, but will not \u201ctango alone\u201d, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS state news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
\u201cRussia, as our president has said, is open to normalisation,\u201d TASS cited Mr Peskov, a close aide of Vladimir Putin, as saying. \u201cBut we cannot tango alone. And we are not going to do it.\u201d
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