'The battlefield is the wrong place to be learning how to fight a war.' Retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell looks at the situation in Ukraine, after a rare address by Vladimir Putin. Ukraine latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation in Ukraine an"act of desperation". Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the country will draft 300,000 reservists to support its military campaign.
When asked if the referendums in the occupied areas of eastern Ukraine mean that once annexed, those territories would be defended with the use of nuclear weapons, Mr Popov said:"I really don't know how to answer this. But you have to know that we are going to defend our motherland." Three numbers – 99, 0, and 7,500 – tell the story of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeast of the country.
Together, the figures hint at a shift in the balance of the war as Ukrainian troops advance with the help of allied supplied weapons, including those from the UK.Pope Francis says it is 'madness' to think of using nuclear weapons
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