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Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, warns that Moscow has enough weapons to destroy “any adversary”, including the US, if its existence is threatened, reports Al Jazeera.
The Ukrainian governor of Donetsk says at least two people have been killed and 29 are wounded, including a child, after a Russian attack on Sloviansk early Monday morning.
The Kremlin says Western criticism will not influence Russian plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus.
Russian forces are turning Avdiivka, a city in the Donetsk region near Bakhmut, into “a place from post-apocalyptic movies”, a top Ukrainian official says.
Meanwhile, 18 Leopard 2 battle tanks pledged by Germany to support Ukraine have arrived, a security source told the Reuters news agency, confirming a report by Spiegel news magazine.
Besides the 18 main battle tanks, 40 German Marder infantry fighting vehicles and two armoured recovery vehicles had also reached Ukraine.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
