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Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov has announced that all the civilians in the Kherson region had been evacuated due to Kiev forces’ attacks.
The Kremlin says US troop deployment in Romania, near the Ukrainian border, poses a threat to Russia, more than eight months after Moscow began a military offensive in Ukraine.
The United States is considering sending old missiles that its own military stopped using to Ukraine as it continues to arm Kiev troops with deadly weapons.
Russia says there is no hope for the improvement of ties with Britain under new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has vowed to support Ukraine.
Amid skepticism that a new Congress could withhold military aid to Ukraine, lawmakers from both major US parties are looking to lock in billions of dollars in military assistance to Kiev before new members are sworn in in January.
Finland says it plans to build a barbed-wire fence on its border with Russia, nearly eight months into the war between Russia and its neighbor Ukraine.
NATO says it will deliver anti-drone systems to Ukraine in the coming days to help it fend off Russian aerial attacks, including those carried out with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Russia has rejected allegations concerning the use of Iranian drones in his country’s military campaign in Ukraine, saying Russia is rather using domestically-manufactured drones.
NATO has begun its long-planned annual nuclear exercises in northwestern Europe amid simmering tensions with Russia over the ongoing war in Ukraine.
A senior US-led NATO official has accused China of failing to denounce Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict and to follow the lead of Western countries vis-à-vis the months-long crisis in eastern Europe.