Poland urgently convened its national security committee and considered invoking NATO’s Article 4 after a missile struck the village of Przewodów near the Ukrainian border, killing two people, with initial debris assessments suggesting it could be of Russian origin.
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Kherson was the centre of Russia’s campaign to assimilate residents and eradicate Ukrainian identity during eight months of occupation, but the effort met resistance from clerks, teachers and students and failed, The New York Times reports after the city’s liberation.
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Senior Indonesian officials have urged Western leaders to show flexibility in how far they go in criticising Russia over the war in Ukraine, in a last-ditch bid to avoid ending the G20 summit in Bali without a joint declaration, Politico reports, citing diplomatic sources.
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Kherson is returning to the control of the Ukrainian army as Ukrainian units enter the city, while the retreat routes of Russian forces are under Ukrainian fire control, Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence says, urging Russian soldiers left behind to surrender immediately.
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Russia and the US expect to meet in the coming weeks to discuss resuming inspections of nuclear weapons sites under the New START treaty, a small step towards reviving arms control talks that were suspended after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.
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Because of low morale and reluctance to fight, Russian forces have probably started deploying barrier troops, or blocking units, which threaten to shoot their own retreating soldiers to compel attacks, the UK Ministry of Defence says, citing the force’s poor discipline.
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North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a significant number of artillery shells for its war in Ukraine and hiding the shipments by making them appear to be bound for the Middle East or North Africa, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
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