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Russia is preparing to join huge military drills with China near Japan this month, according to Chinese state-owned media.
The Xinhua new agency reported that Vladimir Putin’s air and naval forces would join China’s People’s Liberation Army for drills in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk.
It comes as Russian drones breached Nato airspace as Vladimir Putin’s forces targeted Ukraine in an “irresponsible” overnight attack.
Romania scrambled F-16 fighter jets to monitor the drones, which were detected in the early hours of Sunday morning while Latvia shared photos of a crashed drone in its eastern region.
Nato’s outgoing deputy secretary general Mircea Geoană said: “While we have no information indicating an intentional attack by Russia against allies, these acts are irresponsible and potentially dangerous.”
Meanwhile, Moscow has been closing in on Pokrovsk, a key strategic town in eastern Ukraine which has seen intense battles over recent weeks.
Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, have been advancing on the town in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas.
Key Points
- Russia and China in joint military exercise
- Russia forces close in on key strategic town of Pokrovsk
- Nato backlash as Russian violates Romania and Latvia’s airspace with drones
- Ukraine’s Kursk incursion has left Russian elites questioning war, CIA chief says
- Iran sending Russia ballistic missiles would mark ‘dramatic escalation’, warns White House
The Russian glide bombs changing the face of the war in Ukraine
In a Ukrainian stronghold near the front line, less than 20 miles from the eastern city of Donetsk, a winged bomb is seen hurtling towards a multistorey building.
The 1,500-kilogram explosive hits the structure in the town of Krasnohorivka, erupting into a fireball before engulfing the whole building in a plume of grey and black smoke.
The camera, filming from several hundred metres away, shakes as the ground beneath it rocks from the aftereffects of the explosion.
The Russian glide bombs changing the face of the war in Ukraine
Winged explosives weighing up to 1,500 kilograms – and nicknamed the ‘building destroyer’ – have had a devastating impact wherever they have been used, writes Tom Watling. Kyiv is battling them as best it can but needs Western allies to step up and provide more weapons, air defences and ammunition
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 19:00 1725901206In Ukraine, a city grieves for a family killed in a deadly Russia missile attack
In Ukraine, a city grieves for a family killed in a deadly Russia missile attack
Thousands of mourners have gathered for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a mother and her three daughters
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 18:00 1725897606It feels like the Ukraine invasion has made the Russian invasion more ferocious
It feels like the Ukraine invasion has made the Russian invasion more ferocious
Residents of Kostyantynivka, which is perilously close to the front lines, tell Askold Krushelnycky about the relentless shelling they are facing as Russian troops advance on one of the few towns in the region still in Ukrainian hands
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 17:00 1725894006World order under threat ‘not seen since Cold War’, say heads of MI6 and CIA
World order under threat ‘not seen since Cold War’, say MI6 and CIA chiefs
Britain and US face ‘an unprecedented array of threats’, warn Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns in unprecedented joint op-ed
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 16:00 1725890406Voices: Why Xi secretly hates and fears Russia – and may be about to betray Putin
The bear and the dragon can never be friends. That is a lesson Xi Jinping heard at a young age. And it explains why the Chinese leader’s “no limits” partnership with Vladimir Putin may turn into a limitless liability – for the Kremlin.
While researching a new biography of Xi, I came across a startling declassified US document. It reveals that the man who was Xi’s mentor in his first job, at the heart of China’s military, was fiercely anti-Russian. Never trust Moscow, he told his staff.
Today, it all looks fine. The two autocrats have boasted of their alliance for more than two years now. It’s clear that Putin gave his “friend” a tip that he was about to invade Ukraine in February 2022. Since then, Xi has stood alongside him, talking peace but sending Russia weapons technology in exchange for oil and gas.
Read the full article by Michael Sheridan, longtime foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor of The Independent:
Why Xi secretly hates and fears Russia – and may be about to betray Putin
Both men want the democracies to fall into chaos and disarray. They see the international order led by the West as presumptuous, weak and ripe for overthrow. But behind the mutual professions of esteem lie deep fissures of history, race and power, writes China expert Michael Sheridan
Michael Sheridan9 September 2024 15:00 1725888606Girl, 16, 'killed in attack on Ukrainian city'
A 16-year-old girl has died following Russian artillery fire in the city of Nikopol, in the south of Ukraine, over the weekend, a regional governor has said.
Serhiy Lysak, head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA, said emergency crews pulled the teenager from the rubble of a damaged building in a statement shared on Telegram. However, medics were unable to save her, he wrote.
Three other people suffered shrapnel wounds, he said, including a 79-year-old man who was taken to hospital with injuries of “moderate severity”.
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 14:30 1725886806Iran denies reports of missile transfer to Russia
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander denied reports that Iran was transferring missiles to Russia, Iranian media said on Monday, amid concern in the West that they could be deployed in the war in Ukraine.
CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing unidentified sources, that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia.
Brigadier Fazlollah Nozari, deputy commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters, was quoted by the Iranian Labour News Agency as saying: “No missile was sent to Russia and this claim is a kind of psychological warfare.”
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 14:00 1725885006Watch: Drone rains down molten thermite on Ukrainian battlefield
North Korean weapons extending Russian stockpiles, German general says
North Korea’s provision of weapons has strengthened Russia’s hand in Ukraine by allowing it to keep its arsenals stocked at home, Germany’s top military official said during a visit to South Korea on Monday.
Chief of Defence General Carsten Breuer said Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have reached out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for weapons if they were not useful.
“It’s about increasing the production of weapons for Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, it’s also strengthening Russia by making it possible for them to keep their stocks like they are,” Breuer told reporters in the South Korean capital Seoul.
Alexander Butler9 September 2024 12:20 1725870630Putin loyalists set to win local elections in war-affected Russian regions
Supporters of President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine were set to win gubernatorial races across Russia, according to early vote counts on Sunday, including in Kursk where Ukrainian forces have seized control of some towns and territory.
Russia’s three-day local and regional elections came to an end on Sunday evening, with voters expected to elect Kremlin-backed candidates in all 21 gubernatorial races, as well as legislative assembly members in 13 regions and city council officials across the country.
Results of the tightly controlled elections are already being interpreted in Russia as a vote of confidence in Putin and his operation in Ukraine, now in its third year - just as was the election in March that extended his presidential term and voting a year ago.
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