BREAKING: Flight tracking website Flight Radar showed several domestic flights headed for St Petersburg turning back to their destinations More here 👉 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Live reporting by Katie Williams, with Deborah Haynes in Ukraine, Dominic Waghorn in Poland and Diana Magnay in MoscowPulkovo airport in St Petersburg has temporarily suspended all flights until 12pm local time , the city's government said.Russian news site Baza said an unidentified object was seen in the sky and that fighter jets had been despatched.Russia's state-run TASS news agency said airspace within a 200km radius of the international airport was closed until 1.
Belarus - Russia's only remaining ally in Europe - was used as a launch pad for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year. "We regard this information as the intention of the United States and their accomplices to carry out a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals," said Igor Kirillov, chief of the radiation, chemical and biological defence troops of Moscow's armed forces during a briefing.Ukrainian commander warns Bakhmut situation is 'tense'
In a post today on Ukraine's military messaging platform, Mr Syrskyi said:"Despite significant losses, the enemy threw in the most prepared assault units of Wagner, who are trying to break through the defences of our troops and surround the city."Kyiv said earlier today that Russia had bolstered its forces in the area around the highly-contested city, with its soldiers"repelling more than 60 enemy attacks".
"In all other districts, the situation is unpredictable. It is impossible to say where the front line lies."If you're just joining us this morning, here's a round-up of the main stories from yesterday: Now a satellite image has emerged of the Beriev A-50 aircraft on the tarmac of the Belarusian airfield where it was reportedly attacked.Neither Russia nor Belarus have confirmed reports by the Belarusian anti-government organization BYPOL that it used a drone to seriously damage the plane.
"If Beijing followed through, it would put China in a much more directly adversarial position not just with the US but with NATO," he writes for the GZERO website.
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