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Ukraine is capable of developing tactical nukes, as well as the means of its delivery, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a special meeting of the country’s Security Council on Monday. He noted that Kiev’s capabilities exceed those of Tehran and Pyongyang. Commenting on recent threats by Ukraine’s President …

A Ukrainian soldier who was allegedly trying to cross over into Russia from the other side of the shared border has been captured and is being held prisoner, the chief of the country’s security forces has claimed. Speaking at a security council meeting on Monday, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said …

The safety of the American Embassy in Moscow is severely threatened by restrictions imposed on diplomats by the Russian authorities, the US ambassador claimed on Sunday. Speaking to Politico, John Sullivan complained that the diplomatic mission has serious maintenance problems due to a lack of personnel. “If the expulsions by …

The world’s smallest battery, which is the size of a grain of dust, has been unveiled by researchers in Germany, with the potential to power computers anytime and anywhere. The development has the possibility of addressing two problems that have hampered technological progress: the lack of on-chip power sources and …

Ukraine has denied a Russian claim that five of its service personnel were killed on Monday during a firefight near the two countries shared border. Kiev added that none of its forces have a presence in Russia’s Rostov region, dismissing Moscow’s assertion as “fake news.” “I reiterate that the Ukrainian armed …

The leaders of Ukraine’s two self-declared breakaway republics have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, requesting that Moscow recognize the separatist regions as independent states. Speaking in an address on Monday, the head of the self-declared Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Leonid Pasechnik, appealed to Putin, insisting that Moscow’s affirmation of …

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will hold an urgent session on Monday as the Ukraine crisis escalates further. On the same day, Russian top officials will discuss the deteriorating security situation in eastern Ukraine with their EU colleagues. OSCE monitors keep track of ceasefire violations along …

Officials in the breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk have called on Moscow to send urgent help amid a worsening standoff across the contact line, with Kiev’s troops and those loyal to the two self-declared republics accusing each other of heavy shelling. Speaking to the Solovyov Live YouTube channel on Monday, Eduard Basurin, …

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Mark Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, SAGE adviser, and now author of ‘The Year the World Went Mad’, a personal, insider’s view of how the Covid pandemic played out. The book is a very useful review of what happened, even for …