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US president says Russia is testing nuclear weapons ‘underground’ and threatening to expand to other forms
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The UK<\/a> government has provided Ukraine<\/a> with more supplies of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, officials said.
An unspecified number of missiles have been sent to ensure Ukraine<\/a> can respond to Vladimir Putin<\/a>‘s attacks with its own long-range strikes deep inside Russian territory, people aware of the matter told Bloomberg.
This comes as Donald Trump<\/a> accused Russia<\/a> of carrying out \u201cunderground\u201d nuclear weapons<\/a> tests, defending his announcement last week that the US<\/a> would restart its own nuclear testing.
Speaking to Norah O\u2019Donnell on 60 Minutes, <\/em>he said that \u201cRussia<\/a>‘s testing, and China<\/a>‘s testing, but they don’t talk about it\u201d, adding they were doing them \u201cunderground where people don’t know exactly what’s happening with the test.\u201d
When Ms O\u2019Donnell tried to clarify if he meant that Russia<\/a> and China were definitely testing their nuclear weapons, he said: \u201cRussia’s testing nuclear weapons.\u201cRussia did make… a little bit of a threat the other day when they said they were gonna do certain forms of a different level of testing.\u201d
Ukraine is showing “remarkable commitment” to joining the EU, but must reverse recent negative trends in the fight against corruption, the European Commission has said.
The draft text, part of an EU enlargement report expected to be adopted today, says that “despite the very difficult circumstances the country finds itself in on account of Russia\u2019s war of aggression, Ukraine continued to demonstrate remarkable commitment to the EU accession path over the past year”.
Ukraine applied to join the EU days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. It has been pushing to make progress on its bid, despite the challenges of Russia\u2019s war and EU member Hungary blocking Kyiv from formally moving to the next phase of negotiations.
While praising Ukraine for launching reform processes, the European Commission also said that Kyiv needs to make more progress on judicial independence, fighting organised crime and respecting civil society.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia is massing troops near the eastern Ukrainian town of Dobropillia, where Kyiv’s forces advanced earlier this year in a successful counteroffensive.
Dobropillia is about 30km north of Pokrovsk, where Zelensky said Ukraine’s defences are coming under severe pressure and up to 300 Russian soldiers have infiltrated the city.
Russia is focussing its offensive on this eastern sector of Donetsk, and has been pushing to take the strategic city of Pokrovsk for almost a year.
Taking Pokrovsk would give Moscow its most important single territorial gain in Ukraine since the capture of the ruined city of Avdiivka in early 2024.
The Ukrainian military has said its defences around Pokrovsk city in Donetsk are holding, denying claims from Russia that its troops are in full control of any district of the city.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Pokrovsk remained under severe pressure, though Russian troops had made no gains in the past day. He said up to 300 Russian servicemen had infiltrated the city.
Russia said on Monday that its troops had advanced into Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub that they have been trying to capture for over a year.
The Russian defence ministry said its soldiers were destroying what it described as surrounded Ukrainian formations near Pokrovsk’s railway station and industrial zone, and had entered the city’s Prigorodny area and dug in there.
\u201cThe invaders continue to attack in small groups of up to five soldiers, without using armoured vehicles,” the operation task force responsible for Ukraine’s eastern front line said on Facebook.
Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps said Ukrainian forces had thwarted an attempt to cut off a supply route from Rodynske, to the north.
North of Pokrovsk, however, Ukraine has recorded recent gains near Dobropillia. Army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said his forces had stepped up pressure there with the aim of forcing Russia to divert its focus away from Pokrovsk.
Russian forces have advanced in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday.
Pokrovsk is a city that Russia has been trying to capture for over a year.
An estimated 100,000 Russian troops were circling the area, with Ukraine\u2019s top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi saying his forces pushed hard to dislodge Russian troops.
The following are key facts about Pokrovsk, which Russians call by its Soviet-era name of Krasnoarmeysk, and the long battle for its control, which began in earnest in mid-2024.
Russian forces fired 137 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, including an Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from the Rostov region, Ukraine\u2019s air force has said in its daily update.
The attack also involved six S-300 surface-to-air guided missiles from Kursk Oblast and 130 drones, the military added.
Ukrainian forces downed 92 drones, it added. Around 80 of the 130 drones were Iranian-made Shahed drones.
One person was killed and 11 have been injured, including two children, following Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is according to Vladyslav Haivanenko, the acting chief of the regional military administration, who was providing an update on Facebook.
Russians attacked the Mykolaivka hromada [area] in the Synelnykove district with a missile and a drone, Mr Haivanenko said.
A 65-year-old woman was killed and eight were injured, including a 15-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl.
A further three men were injured in attacks on the region\u2019s Nikopol district.
Ukrainian forces attacked a petrochemical plant deep inside Russia, causing a partial collapse of a water-treatment facility but no injuries, regional authorities said on Tuesday.
The Sterlitamak plant in the Bashkortostan region, some 1,500 km (932 miles) from the Ukrainian border in the Urals Mountains, continued operating after the attack, the head of the Bashkortostan region, Radiy Khabirov, said on Telegram.
He added that both of the drones involved in the overnight strike were destroyed. The Russian defence ministry said in its daily report that, in addition to the two drones downed over the Bashkortostan region, its defence systems destroyed 83 drones over seven other Russian regions.
The administration of the city of Sterlitamak, where the plant is located, said that all five workers inside were not injured.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Russia struck civilian energy and port infrastructure in a massive overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s southern region of Odesa, its governor said on Tuesday.
“Despite the active work of air defence forces, which destroyed most of the enemy targets, there were hits on civilian port and energy infrastructure facilities,” Oleh Kiper wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
He said that rescuers quickly extinguished the fires and there were no casualties.
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