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Romania condemned Moscow’s ‘unacceptable and irresponsible’ violation of its sovereignty
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<\/a>The Kremlin has claimed that Nato<\/a> is \u201cfighting against Russia<\/a>\u201d through its direct and indirect support for Ukraine as Moscow escalates tensions with the military alliance.
“Nato is de facto involved in this war,\u201d Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Monday. \u201cNato is providing direct and indirect support to the Kyiv regime. It can be said with absolute certainty that Nato is fighting against Russia”.
It comes as Russia breached the airspace of another Nato country, Romania<\/a>, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The Romanian defence ministry scrambled two F-16s to down a Russian drone in its airspace, just days after Poland<\/a> confirmed an incursion by at least 19 Russian drones.
The Russian ambassador to Bucharest was summoned to protest the \u201cviolation of Romania\u2019s sovereignty\u201d, said Romanian foreign minister Oana Toiu.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> said a Russian drone travelled about 10 kilometres into Romanian territory and operated in Nato airspace for around 50 minutes before it left towards Ukraine.
He warned that the incident was \u201can obvious expansion\u201d of Russia\u2019s war beyond Ukraine\u2019s borders, and once again called for tougher sanctions against Moscow<\/a>.
After provocative incursions over Poland and Romania by Russian drones, Nato\u2019s response \u2013 to deploy military equipment along its eastern flank \u2013 might actually suit Vladimir Putin, says Mark Almond.
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Cluster munitions have caused more than 1,200 civilian casualties in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, a campaign group said on Monday.
Cluster munitions, which can cause severe injuries, have continued to be used by both sides during the conflict, particularly Russia, causing civilian deaths and injuries, the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor said in a new report.
“There continue to be attacks impacting civilian areas and residential buildings. Individual attacks…have killed dozens of civilians and left hundreds injured,” said Michael Hart, Cluster Munition Monitor Research Specialist.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine is party to the 2008 convention which bans cluster munitions, which currently has 112 member countries.
Cluster munitions, fired from the ground or by aircraft, explode mid-air, spraying smaller bomblets over a wide area.
US military officials paid a surprising visit to Belarus to observe Russian war games after Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin said they could look at “whatever is of interest for you”.
The attendance of the Americans at a training ground in Belarus was presented by the country’s defence ministry as a surprise.
“Who would have thought how the morning of another day of the Zapad-2025 exercise would begin?” it said in a statement.
The ministry released video showing two uniformed US officers thanking Khrenin for the invitation and shaking his hand.
Russia has conducted a test strike with a Kalibr cruise missile from its Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine, according to news agency Interfax.
The strike on the designated target was carried out by the submarine from an underwater position, the state news agency reported.
The test strike came as Russia held major war games in Belarus amid rising tensions with Nato. Moscow was condemned after Russian drones entered Polish and Romanian airspace in the last week.
Russia has lost over one million troops in Ukraine since it started its full-scale invasion, the General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces has reported.
In its latest report, the General Staff claimed that enemy forces had lost 1,095,520 troops since 24 February 2022, including 910 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Russia has also lost 11,184 tanks, 23,269 armoured fighting vehicles, 61,698 vehicles and fuel tanks, 32,784 artillery systems, 1,488 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,217 air defence systems, 422 airplanes, 341 helicopters, 59,409 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine, according to the report.
Belarusian opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, who refused to be deported to neighbouring Lithuania after being released from prison last week, has been returned to a penal colony, independent news outlet Nasha Niva reported on Monday.
“Statkevich has been found in the Hlybokaye prison colony,” exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya posted on X, citing the Nasha Niva report which was based on an unidentified source.
“We urge the international community to demand his freedom,” she said.
Statkevich was one of 52 prisoners freed in Belarus last week after an appeal from US president Donald Trump, including journalists and political opponents of president Alexander Lukashenko. All were taken to the Lithuanian border, but Statkevich was the only one who refused to cross.
The exiled opposition says freed prisoners should have the right to remain in Belarus rather than be forced to leave the country. Some of those released last week said they would rather have stayed.
Statkevich, 69, ran unsuccessfully against Lukashenko in a presidential election in 2010. He was arrested in May 2020 and sentenced in 2021 to 14 years in a maximum security prison for “organising riots”.
Nasha Niva said he had been in solitary confinement in the Hlybokaye prison for the past two years and seven months, with no contact with the outside world.
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