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Situation on March 27th

THE European Union is ready to impose new sanctions on Belarus if it deploys Russian nuclear weapons.

Heavy Russian bombing they are turning the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka into a “place out of post-apocalyptic movies,” said the head of the city’s military administration, Vitaliy Barabash. Reuters reported that about 2,000 civilians remained in the city which Ukrainian forces said last week could become a “second Bakhmut”.

The number of Russian troops in Belarus it dropped to around 4,000. Says Ukrainian state border guard. As of January, there were still 10,000 soldiers, most of the rest are in training, the rest have been sent back to Russia.

BORN criticized Russia for its “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric after Vladimir Putin said Russia would plant tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Ukraine has responded to Russia’s plans for Belarus by convening an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Kiev’s Foreign Ministry said it was “another provocative move” by Moscow that undermines “the international security system as a whole”.

Joseph Borrel, the EU foreign policy chief, has warned Belarus against harboring Russian nuclear weapons. If Belarus were to host Russian nuclear weapons, it would mean an irresponsible escalation and a threat to European security. Belarus can still stop him, it’s his choice. The EU stands ready to respond with further sanctions.”

Russia and China do not create a military alliance, Putin said in a television interview. Putin said military cooperation between the two countries was transparent, news agencies said.

It British Ministry of Defence says Russia has likely launched at least 71 Iranian-designed Shahed-series unmanned attack aircraft (OWA-UAVS) against targets in Ukraine since early March 2023.

Ukraine it will no longer resort to “dangerous” monetary financing to finance the war against Russia, its central bank governor Andriy Pyshnyi told the Financial Times.

The head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant next week to assess the dire security situation there, the IAEA said. Rafael Grossi said the dangers to nuclear safety and security at the Russian-controlled facility were “all too clear”.