China sending Russia lethal aid, says British defence secretary; Zelenskiy stresses need for defence against glide bombs. What we know on day 820
File photo. A French Rafale jet fighter has fired a nuclear-capable ASMPA-R missile during a test in France, coinciding with Russia announcing it is holding nuclear drills.File photo. A French Rafale jet fighter has fired a nuclear-capable ASMPA-R missile during a test in France, coinciding with Russia announcing it is holding nuclear drills.
, the ASMPA-R, designed to be launched by a Rafale fighter jet, according to the French defence minister, Sebastien Lecornu. It cameby a plane in an exercise “above national territory … at the end of a flight representing a nuclear air raid”. He congratulated “all the forces, ministry teams and industrial partners involved” in a “long-planned” operation.
In the US, however, Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that while there were concerns China might “provide weapons directly – lethal assistance – to Russia …what China’s doing to fuel Russia’s war machineShapps said Nato needed to “wake up” and bolster defence spending across the alliance.
and used them to fire at Russian positions in combat, a Ukrainian intelligence source has told Reuters. The “Sea Babies” had been used this week to attack Russian positions on the Kinburn Spit in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv.on Wednesday destroyed a cafe, damaged a nearby residential building and set a petrol station ablaze. Local officials said 10 people were wounded, including, said regional prosecutors, a, which had become the “the main instrument” used in Russian attacks.
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