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Estonia said it has summoned the Russian ambassador to Tallinn to protest at the flight path of the MI-8 border guard helicopter, which it said entered Estonian airspace for two minutes without permission on Saturday evening.
The senior Estonian civil servant said: "Getting over the border with a helicopter cannot be a mistake – there have been multiple examples in recent days. Beside the border actions there have been provocative actions flying very near the vicinity of the border in the last days."
Russia is also conducting military exercises that includes simulating missile strikes on its Baltic neighbour. "It is real life. They are actually simulating missiles attacks against NATO territory and letting us know that they are doing this," Mr Salm said. -
Russia deciding on retaliatory measures after Lithuanian banned Russian exports
Sanctions that led to Lithuania imposing a ban on the transit of some goods from Russia to Kaliningrad were "absolutely unacceptable, according to the Kremlin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had yet to decide when it would impose countermeasures.
The Russian city of Kaliningrad is part of the wider Kaliningrad oblast - or region - claimed by the Russians after the Second World War. -
Finland ready for Russian attack, says armed forces chief
Finland is prepared for a Russian attack and its people are motivated to fight, according to its armed forces chief.
The Nordic country has built up a substantial weapons arsenal and General Timo Kivinen said: "The most important line of defence is between one's ears, as the war in Ukraine proves at the moment."Finland fought two wars in the 1940s against its eastern neighbour, with which it shares a 1,300km (810 mile) border and is now applying to join the NATO military alliance over concerns that Russia could invade.
Since the end of the Second World War, Helsinki has maintained its military and boasts a wartime troop strength of almost 280,00 with 870,000 trained reservists.
It did not abolish military conscription for men as many other western nations did after the Cold War and also built one of Europe's strongest artilleries and has stocked up on cruise missiles with a range of up to 370 km (230 miles). -
'It is a lie': Russia says West is spreading false accusations about global food crisis
The West is spreading lies about the global food crisis, Russia says.
Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said that the food crisis is being stoked due to sanctions imposed on Russia by Western countries, which have sent the price of grain, cooking oil, fertiliser and energy soaring.
Ms Zakharova told reporters in Moscow that she is dismayed by Western statements that Russia is to blame for the crisis.
"It is a lie - such accusations are complete lies," she said.
"So the West can supply all these arms to Ukraine but for some reason, nothing can be taken out of Ukraine?" -
Lithuania 'ready' for any 'unfriendly' retaliation measures from Russia
Lithuania said it is prepared if Russia disconnects it from the regional power grid in retaliation for blocking trade into the Kaliningrad enclave.
Gitanas Nauseda said that he does not expect a military confrontation, saying: "We are ready and we are prepared for unfriendly actions from Russia (in response), such as disconnection from the BRELL (power grid) system, or others."
Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia still depend on Russia for stable power supplies.However, Lithuania installed equipment on its power link to Poland last year to connect with the continental European grid quickly as an insurance policy in case Russia cuts off the flow of electricity, potentially causing blackouts.
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EU grants candidate status to Ukraine & Moldova
European Union leaders have formally granted Ukraine candidate status to become a member of the bloc during their two-day summit in Brussels.
Diplomats have described the recommendation as historic, given the deep divisions in recent months over Ukraine's readiness to become a candidate for membership.
EU leaders also granted candidate status to Moldova. They agreed to offer Georgia a "European perspective", but said it must carry out a raft of steps before it can become a candidate.
The approval of the Kyiv government's application by EU leaders will anger Russia, as it struggles to impose its will on Ukraine.
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Car bomb kills Russian-appointed official in Kherson - reports
A Moscow-installed official has been killed in Ukraine's southern region of Kherson in an apparent assassination, Russian news agencies report.
The senior official had entered his car when the vehicle was blown up, Russia's RIA Novosti reports.
Russia's TASS news agency said there were two burnt-out cars in a courtyard of Kherson, the regional capital where the blast took place, and that the windows of one four-storey house had been shattered.
"According to preliminary data, he died. An explosive device was planted in his car," a representative of the Kherson region administration told Interfax. -
༺ ᗪᗰᒪ ༻ wrote:
#disarm ukraine cuz russia doing bad thingsCar bomb kills Russian-appointed official in Kherson - reports
A Moscow-installed official has been killed in Ukraine's southern region of Kherson in an apparent assassination, Russian news agencies report.
The senior official had entered his car when the vehicle was blown up, Russia's RIA Novosti reports.
Russia's TASS news agency said there were two burnt-out cars in a courtyard of Kherson, the regional capital where the blast took place, and that the windows of one four-storey house had been shattered.
"According to preliminary data, he died. An explosive device was planted in his car," a representative of the Kherson region administration told Interfax. -
London will be bombed first in World War Three, Putin ally claims
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that London will be the first city to be bombed in the event of another world war.
Speaking on Russia's Channel 1 television, Andrey Gurulyov, a State Duma politician, said the UK capital would be hit first if the blockade of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad led to war."We'll destroy the entire group of enemy's space satellites during the first air operation," he said.
"No-one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO.
"Second, we'll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100%."Third, we certainly won't start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin.
"The first to be hit will be London.
"It's crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons." -
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He is right about the Anglo-SaxonsLondon will be bombed first in World War Three, Putin ally claims
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that London will be the first city to be bombed in the event of another world war.
Speaking on Russia's Channel 1 television, Andrey Gurulyov, a State Duma politician, said the UK capital would be hit first if the blockade of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad led to war."We'll destroy the entire group of enemy's space satellites during the first air operation," he said.
"No-one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO.
"Second, we'll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100%."Third, we certainly won't start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin.
"The first to be hit will be London.
"It's crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons." -
Is war now heading in Russia's direction?
For months a narrative has built - and been fed by Western intelligence - that Russia is struggling to achieve its primary objectives in Ukraine. We saw a complete withdrawal from the north and west after a failed push on Kyiv, and a refocusing on the Donbas in the east, where fighting has at times resembled a stalemate.
But now momentum, at least in the short term, appears to be with Vladimir Putin's forces, according to analysts.
Sir Richard Barrons, a former head of Joint Forces Command, told Sky News: "I think in the short term that is so.
"Russia will feel it's sitting on now just a bit less than a quarter of Ukraine.
"It knows that Ukraine does not have the military capability to throw them out, and it will sense that there is some weariness in the world at bearing the consequences of this war."
Over the last week Ukrainian forces have retreated from Severodonetsk - the largest remaining part of the Luhansk region that was under Kyiv control. -
Russia 'does not accept' that it defaulted on debt
Russia does not accept that it has defaulted on its external debt for the first time in more than a century, the Kremlin has said.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia made bond payments due in May but they were blocked by Belgium-based bank Euroclear because of Western sanctions, which he said is "not our problem".Earlier Russia missed a deadline to pay investors of its international bonds, which would place it in default for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
According to the Reuters news agency, some Taiwanese holders of Russian Eurobonds had not received interest due when a grace period expired on Sunday. -
Huge increase in NATO troops on high alert
Source: Sky News
By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editorNATO will significantly increase the number of forces on high alert to well over 300,000 from 40,000 as part of the biggest overhaul of the alliance's defences since the Cold War.
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, also confirmed that allies will expand troop deployments in NATO countries that sit closest to Russia.The decisions will be set out at a landmark summit of the 30-member NATO alliance this week in Madrid, which is taking place in the shadow of Russia's war in Ukraine.
"We will transform the NATO response force and increase the number of our high readiness forces to well over 300,000," Mr Stoltenberg told reporters on Monday in a briefing, previewing the three-day summit.
The NATO Response Force is currently around 40,000 soldiers, sailors and air personnel.
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Sky News revealed last week that it would be significantly increased, with two military sources saying it would be six-times the size.
The name is also set to be changed to the Allied Reaction Force, Sky News understands. -
Lol this is crazy. Remember when they said Ukraine was kicking Russia’s ass
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'Very real danger' Putin could lash out beyond Ukraine, says UK defence secretary
There is a "very real danger" of Vladimir Putin "lashing out" beyond the borders of Ukraine, according to the UK's defence secretary.
Speaking at a news conference, Ben Wallace described Russia as "the most direct and pressing threat to Europe".
Mr Wallace also lambasted years of hollowing out of the UK's armed forces by successive Conservative and Labour governments, seeking to save money by cutting troop numbers and other military capabilities – cashing in on what is called a "peace dividend" triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The defence secretary applauded, however, a decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2020 to increase the UK defence budget by some £24bn during this parliament.
There is an expectation that the defence budget will be lifted even further given the rising threat. -
UK 'should have been supplying weapons to Ukraine earlier' and needs to learn lessons for Taiwan, Liz Truss says
The UK should have given arms to Ukraine earlier and the same mistake should not be made in Taiwan, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
Asked why some allies had not supported Ukraine in the same way as the UK, Ms Truss told the Foreign Affairs Committee: "There's always a tendency, and we've seen this prior to the Ukraine war, there's always a tendency of wishful thinking, to hope that more bad things won't happen and to wait until it's too late.
"We should have done things earlier, we should have been supplying the defensive weapons into Ukraine earlier.
"We need to learn that lesson for Taiwan.
"Every piece of equipment we have sent takes months of training, so the sooner we do it the better."
The comments come amid concerns within the government that failing to resist Vladimir Putin's invasion of his neighbour could embolden Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to occupy Taiwan. -
Turkey agrees to back Finnish and Swedish NATO membership
Turkey has agreed to support Finland and Sweden's joint membership of NATO, Finland's President Niinisto has confirmed.
Mr Niinisto said the breakthrough came after the three countries signed a joint memorandum "to extend their full support against threats to each other’s security" during a meeting in Madrid today.
A statement by President Niinisto read: "Our joint memorandum underscores the commitment of Finland, Sweden and Turkey to extend their full support against threats to each other’s security. Us becoming NATO allies will further strengthen this commitment.
"Over the past weeks, Turkey has raised its concerns over the threat of terrorism. Finland has constantly taken these concerns seriously.
"Finland condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. As a NATO member, Finland will commit fully to the counterterrorism documents and policies of NATO. -
Russia accuses staunch ally Kazakhstan of ignoring ‘Russophobic’ acts
Russia has accused Kazakhstan of ignoring “Russophobic activity”, raising fears that the Kremlin may turn against the nation after its war in Ukraine.
Igor Krasnov, Russia’s chief prosecutor, claimed Ukrainian activists in Kazakhstan were helping to fuel anti-Russian sentiment.“I am regularly informed that with the support of Ukrainian non-governmental organisations, active Russophobic activity is also unfolding in Kazakhstan,” Mr Krasnov said during talks with his Kazakh counterparts in Minsk, where chief public prosecutors from around the former Soviet Union met.
The Kremlin used the pretext of defending marginalised ethnic Russians to justify its war in Ukraine and in April, Russian generals also said that their armies should battle all the way to the border with Moldova, where it claimed ethnic Russians were being discriminated against.
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Kazakhstan and Russia share the world’s longest continuous land border and have been regarded as staunch allies, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fractured this alliance.
Earlier this month, during a televised press conference, Kassym Jomart Tokayev, the Kazakh president, embarrassed Vladimir Putin during the final session of an economic forum by explaining that he did not support the independence of pro-Russia regions in Donbas. Twenty minutes later, Putin warned that the territories of the Soviet Union are Russian.Kremlin-linked propagandists and Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, have since told the Kazakh government to back the Kremlin.
Publicly, Kazakh government officials have played down any fracturing of relations with the Kremlin but privately they are concerned. Ordinary Kazakhs are also worried that Putin may turn his attention to Kazakhstan once he has achieved his war aims in Ukraine. -
“We would be no match for Russia. Yes, for sure we could be next,” Chingiz, a former baker based in the Kazakh capital Nur Sultan, said last week. “We have a small army and would be no match for Russia.
"It’s not good.”
Kazakhstan has a large ethnic Russian population of around 3.5 million people, out of a population of 19 million. Many of these live in the north of the country and pro-Russian sentiment there, hardened by Kremlin TV propaganda, is running high.
Thousands of anti-war Russians have also set up new homes in Kazakhstan since the start of the war.
Many from Moscow and St Petersburg fled to Almaty, the wealthy former capital in southern Kazakhstan.
Uralsk, in northern Kazakhstan only 72km from the border with Russia, has also become a refuge for anti-war Russians fleeing from cities in the Urals, only a few hours’ drive away.
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Ukraine war would not have started if Putin was a woman, claims Boris Johnson
Vladimir Putin wouldn't have started the war in Ukraine if he was a woman, according to Boris Johnson.
The remarks from the PM come after the G7 summit in Germany.
He described the conflict as "crazy, macho", and told German broadcaster ZDF: "If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn't, but if he were, I really don't think he would've embarked on a crazy, macho war of invasion and violence in the way that he has.
"If you want a perfect example of toxic masculinity, it's what he's doing in Ukraine."
While Mr Johnson's suggestion is likely to resonate with many, it is worth pointing out that Catherine the Great, Russia's longest serving female leader, broke an international agreement to annexe Crimea in the 1700s, just as Mr Putin has done. -
US to increase military presence in Europe and send more F-35 squadrons to UK
The US is enhancing its military presence in Europe based on threats coming from Russia, President Joe Biden has said.
He confirmed the US will raise the number of destroyers in Spain to six from four and said Washington will send two additional F-35 squadrons to Britain and establish a permanent 5th Army headquarters in Poland.
He said an additional rotational brigade will be deployed to Romania and station additional air defence and other capabilities in Germany and Italy.
He pledged to make sure NATO is ready to meet threats from all directions across all domains, land air and sea.
"Putin has shattered peace in Europe," he said.
"We're stepping up," he continued.
"We're proving now that NATO is more needed now than it ever has been."
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