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Russian Navy frigates equipped with new-generation hypersonic cruise missiles<\/a> have conducted drills in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
The crews of the frigates fired Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic anti-ship missiles, while a Russian submarine launched a Kalibr cruise missile, another weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead<\/a>, the ministry said.
On the coast nearby, a missile system carried out a live launch of an Onyx anti-ship missile.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> announced Ukraine<\/a> has conducted a test on new domestically\u00a0made missiles and is ramping up missile production.
\u201cWe can thank our Ukrainian missile developers.\u00a0We are speeding up the production,\u201d he\u00a0said, without providing further details.
Kyiv is ramping up domestic production in an attempt to speed up weapons supplies and decrease its dependency on Western aid deliveries.
On the frontlines, Moscow\u2019s troops have been capturing village after village in Ukraine\u2019s east, part of a drive to seize the industrial Donbas region, while Russian airstrikes target a hobbled Ukrainian energy grid<\/a> as winter sets in.
Moscow unleashes second major strike on power sector in two weeks in what Ukrainian president Zelensky calls \u2018vile escalation\u2019
The Russian Defence Ministry has said its forces had gained control of two new settlements, Romanivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, and Novodarivka, in Ukraine\u2019s southern Zaporizhzhia region.
The Independent\u00a0<\/em>could not verify this claim.
The NCSC\u2019s annual report shows a threefold increase in the most serious cyber incidents affecting the UK in 2023-24
A Foreign Office minister has denied the UK changed its approach to Ukraine when the Prime Minister mentioned \u201cnegotiations\u201d to secure peace in eastern Europe.
Catherine West pledged the UK would support Kyiv in pursuit of \u201ca just peace on its own terms\u201d.
Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel had asked her whether Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s comments represented \u201ca departure from the current approach\u201d towards the conflict.
Speaking at the Lord Mayor\u2019s Banquet in the City of London on Monday, the Prime Minister vowed to \u201ccontinue to back Ukraine and do what it takes to support their self-defence for as long as it takes, to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position for negotiations so they can secure a just and lasting peace on their terms that guarantees their security, independence, and right to choose their own future\u201d.
An alleged Russian spy ring targeted Ukrainian soldiers at a US military base in Germany who were believed to be training to use a crucial air defence system to defend against Russia\u2019s invasion, British prosecutors have said.
Bulgarian nationals Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, are accused of being part of a sophisticated spying network run by a Russian agent named as Jan Marsalek, which planned six operations from Britain.
Prosecutors say the trio – along with Orlin Roussev and Bizer Dzhambazov, who have admitted being part of the conspiracy \u2013 carried out\u00a0surveillance of journalists\u00a0and planned to stage a fake protest outside the Kazakh embassy in London.
The trio are accused of acting under the direction of Roussev who was receiving instructions from Marsalek, an Austrian national who used the false name Rupert Ticz and was chief operating officer of collapsed payments company Wirecard.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan told the jury on Tuesday that in late 2022, Marsalek tasked Roussev with surveilling a US military base in Stuttgart, Germany, though the operation was cut short after the defendants were arrested.
Morgan said Marsalek believed the base was being used to train Ukrainian forces to use the Patriot air defence system.
The surveillance was carried out in October and November 2022, \u201cat an absolutely crucial time in terms of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine,\u201d she said.
Ivanova, Gaberova and Ivanchev deny the accusations.
A number of Nato members are waiting for the new US administration to take office before making up their minds on\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s request for an invitation to join the alliance, Latvia\u2019s foreign minister has said.
Kyiv has\u00a0urged\u00a0Nato foreign ministers to issue an invitation at a meeting in Brussels this week, but movement appears\u00a0unlikely\u00a0amid opposition from some capitals and the transition in Washington.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he will end Russia\u2019s war with\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0in a day, but his team\u2019s plans for\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0policy remain unclear.
\u201cIn principle, we as political leaders have agreed that\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0will be a member,\u201d Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Bra\u017ee told Reuters<\/em>.
\u201cThe issue is what conditions when, and obviously that is where the alliance has to come together. All allies, currently, everybody is waiting for the new US administration to start working, so I think that is one aspect that is said or unsaid, but it\u2019s a reality.\u201d
Bra\u017ee, a former senior Nato official, said\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s battle-hardened military would be an asset for Nato, and that her country would be in favour of inviting\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0to join if a decision was on the table.
\u201cA number of countries don\u2019t necessarily feel comfortable inviting a country at war to join Nato,\u201d the minister said, adding: \u201cWe are more flexible.\u201d
Italy is preparing a new military aid package for\u00a0Ukraine, two sources close to the matter have said, in a renewed show of support for Kyiv from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s hard-right government.
Since Russia invaded\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0in February 2022, Italy has approved nine packages of aid for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u2019s administration, including two Franco-Italian air defence systems known as\u00a0SAMP\/T.
The sources, who asked not to be named, told news agency Reuters the government was likely to approve a 10th package by the end of this month, but declined to provide details. All shipments have so far been covered by state secrecy.
Meloni has been a supporter of Kyiv since taking office in late 2022 and has vowed to back\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0until the war ends, amid uncertainty over the future\u00a0attitude of the U.S.\u00a0once president-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
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