Ukraine-Russia war – live: Kyiv strikes Russia ‘with kamikaze drones’ as Putin’s troops suffer in Kharkiv
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Ukraine has struck several regions of Russia with kamikaze drones, officials have claimed, as Kremlin-approved outlets reported damage to multiple military sites.
Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) officials said they targeted military facilities in the Lipetsk, Belgorod and Voronezh, all of which are within 250 miles of the Ukrainian border.
Russian state media outlet Astra reported that a pipeline had been damaged in one of the workshops of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant in Lipetsk, while residents reported explosions and smoke over the tractor plant at about 1:40 a.m local time. The Russian defence ministry claimed that six drones had been shot down over the three regions.
It comes as a Russian soldier claimed their forces were suffering massive losses in their attempts to capture further territory in the northeast Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
“They just chop us up. We are sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight, like meat. And commanders just shout ‘forward and forward’,” soldier Anton Andreev said in a video message, in comments published by Astra.
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The visit follows Hanoi avoiding a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland last weekend, while sending its deputy foreign minister to a BRICS meeting in Russia earlier last week.
Putin, who was sworn in for a fifth time just over a month ago, is expected to meet Vietnam’s new president, To Lam, and other leaders during the two-day visit to Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, officials said.
The United States, which upgraded relations with Hanoi last year and is Vietnam’s top trading partner, reacted harshly.
“No country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression and otherwise allow him to normalise his atrocities,” a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Hanoi told Reuters when asked about the impact of the visit on ties with the United States.
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Ukraine’s national security chief: Putin could use nuclear weapons if he is on the verge of defeat
Ukraine’s head of the national security council has warned that Vladimir Putin could resort to using nuclear weapons if he is on the “verge of a catastrophic defeat”.
Asked by The Times if there was ever a scenario where Putin could use nuclear weapons - a threat the Russian leader and his officials have made frequently over the past two and half years - Oleksandr Lytvynenko said: “We can’t rule out anything, if Russia is on the verge of a catastrophic defeat.”
He added, however, that there was no likelihood that Putin would deploy nuclear weapons while Russia had the upper hand in the war. Currently, Russian forces hold the momentum, having recently pushed into the northeast Ukrainian region of Kharkiv and retaken territory further east, though their advances have been minimised.
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