The most important news
- Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Washington for a meeting with President Biden.
- Foreign ministers of the Quad group call Putin’s threat of nuclear weapons “unacceptable”.
Much is still unclear about the attacks in the Russian border region
07:56 | Much remains unclear about the situation in Russian villages in the Bryansk region. A group called The Russian Volunteer Corps appears to be responsible for the attacks just across the Russian border, but the extent of the damage and casualties has yet to be determined.
“It’s a club of Russian ultranationalists. They are also called neo-Nazis,” says defense specialist Peter Wijninga of the Center for Strategic Studies in The Hague on the Russian Volunteer Corps. “It is a group of Russians who believe that Russia should be liberated from Putin’s regime and that leaders who have blood ties to the old families of the tsars should be appointed”.
Meeting Biden and Scholz at the White House
06:40 | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Washington today for a meeting with US President Joe Biden. The war in Ukraine is high on the agenda, as is China’s role and rumors that China is planning to supply Russia with weapons.
Not much will be revealed about the visit, this is a private conversation. Scholz travels to Washington DC without reporters and no closing press conference is scheduled.
Quad ministers: threatening with nuclear weapons is ‘unacceptable’
05:58 | Foreign ministers of the so-called Quad group, made up of India, Australia, Japan and the United States, define the threat of the use of nuclear weapons by Russian President Putin as “unacceptable”.
The ministers also said they were against unilateral actions that would increase tensions in the South China Sea and expressed concerns about the “militarisation” of disputed areas, referring to China’s actions.