Latest updates of Russia Ukrain war

UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR LATEST: US PLANS AVALANCHE OF KYIV MILITARY AID AS PUTIN’S FORCES TO USE ‘ANY MEANS’ TO WIN

Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the last year, mostly in the east of Ukraine, but Ukrainian forces have made those advances as slow and difficult as possible and even staged a counter-offensive into Russian territory.

Recent updates on the Russia-Ukraine war include

• Russian attacks in Ukraine’s Donetsk region killed four people and wounded 11 others.

• Missiles in Kharkiv left four injured.

• Ukraine’s defense minister Oleksii Reznikov is set to be replaced due to a corruption scandal.

• Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the embattled eastern city of Severodonetsk.

• Russian forces areThe White House has devised a last-minute strategy to bolster Ukraine’s war efforts through significant military aid and sweeping new sanctions on Russia, according to a security briefing.

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan committed to delivering hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, thousands of rockets, and hundreds of armoured vehicles by mid-January, during a meeting with Ukrainian presidential office head Andrii Yermak on Thursday. The United States also plans to train Ukrainian troops outside the country and finalise $20bn in loans backed by frozen Russian assets, according to the briefing shared with the Guardian.

The strategy includes a final push of sanctions on Russia before US president-elect Donald Trump renters the White House. The move aims to weaken Russia’s war effort and enhance Ukraine’s leverage in future negotiations.

Meanwhile, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said his country would be “ready to use any means” so that Moscow does not suffer “strategic defeat” against Ukraine.

Mr Lavrov also said the West should abandon any notion that Russia had no “red lines” and laid out conditions for peace in Ukraine, during the interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson.

The world stands at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” in which Britain is threatened by multiple dilemmas, the head of the armed forces has warned.

But alongside his stark warning of the threats facing Britain and its allies, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said there would be only a “remote chance” Russia would directly attack or invade the UK if the two countries were at war.

The Chief of the Defence Staff laid out the landscape of British defence in a wide-ranging speech, after a minister warned the Army would be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict.

The admiral cast doubt on the possibility as he gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) defence think tank in London.

We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age... defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went before.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin

He told the audience Britain needed to be “clear-eyed in our assessment” of the threats it faces, adding: “That includes recognising that there is only a remote chance of a significant direct attack or invasion by Russia on the United Kingdom, and that’s the same for the whole of Nato.”

Russia and Ukraine have not officially published a tally of their respective military losses of personnel in the nearly three-year-old war and treat the figure as a state secret.

Western intelligence sources estimate the number of Russian dead to be as high as 200,000, with 400,000 wounded.

According to the UK chief of defence staff Sir Tony Radakin, more than 1,500 Russian soldiers were being killed or wounded every day in October. That is the highest rate since the beginning of the war, exceeding the 1,200 being killed or wounded every day in May and June.

Experts at the Institute for the Study of War believe Russian forces will likely continue to focus on seizing frontline Ukrainian towns and cities this winter with the city of Pokrovsk as one of their main targets.

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