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Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had no choice but to take into account the nuclear capabilities of Nato as the US-led military alliance was seeking the defeat of Russia.In today's conditions, when all the leading Nato countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?

Belarusian anti-war partisans claim to have severely damaged a Russian military aircraft in what an opposition leader has called the most successful diversion since the beginning of the war.BYPOL, the Belarusian partisan organisation, said it had used drones to strike the Machulishchy airfield 12km from Minsk, severely damaging a Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft (Awacs).

Russia and Belarus have expanded their joint military training exercises in Belarus, the country's defence TV channel said on Sunday, as concern grows that Moscow is pressuring its closest ally to join the war in Ukraine.The two countries added weapons, soldiers and specialised equipment to the exercises and were doing drills drawing on Russian experience in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday.Pavel Orlovsky/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping met on Wednesday with Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.According to Chinese state media, Lukashenko was welcomed with a 21-gun salute in Tiananmen Square, where he reviewed honor guard troops with Xi, who later declared the China-Belarus friendship "unbreakable."

Leaders Xi Jinping and Alexander Lukashenko were meeting in Beijing for a joint summit.Belarus has provided military support to Russia, while China has refused to condemn the invasion.At a joint summit on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko called for the "soonest possible establishment of peace in Ukraine."

A Belarusian court has sentenced opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is being tried in absentia, to 15 years in prison.A court in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on Monday handed a 15-year sentence to exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the state news agency Belta reported.

A show trial carries with it a noxious whiff of Soviet times and in the case of Belarus, a country trapped by its past, the allusion is wholly appropriate.Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, elected president in 2020 in a contest stolen by Belarus's dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, was accused of treason by a court in Minsk last week.

People shop in a mall decorated with winter and Christmas decorations in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images As Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the 10-month mark  on Nov. 24  here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.

Kremlin rejects claims that the Russian president is pressuring Belarus into a more active role in the war against Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Minsk for talks with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who allowed Moscow to use his country as a staging ground for its offensive in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine  Multiple explosive drones attacked Ukraine's capital before dawn Monday, local authorities reported, as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to visit ally Belarus, which provided the Kremlin's forces with a launch pad for its invasion of Ukraine almost 10 months ago.The drone attack came three days after what Ukrainian officials described as one of Russia's biggest assaults on Kyiv since the war started and as Moscow presses on with its effort to torment Ukraine from the air amid a broad battlefield stalemate.

Chinese authorities dropped a trade fair speech by the European Council president, Charles Michel, that was critical of Russia's war in Ukraine, diplomats have said.The recorded message by Michel was meant to be one of several from world leaders and heads of international bodies played at the opening on Friday last week of China's International Import Expo in Shanghai.

Meanwhile, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, Unicef said Monday.The conflict and rising inflation have driven an additional four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty, a 19 percent increase since 2021, it said.

Ukraine has succeeded in maintaining its energy stability after Russian attacks last week that targeted key parts of its infrastructure, Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal said.More than 30 settlements across Ukraine have been hit by Russian strikes in the last day, according to the Ukrainian military.