Russia is scouring China for second-hand machine tools using shadowy networks of buyers, as the Kremlin races to secure vital equipment to increase arms production. Russian commanders have ordered not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner but to behead them instead, Ukraine says.
Read MoreSwedish fighter jets intercepted a Russian military aircraft after it briefly violated Sweden's airspace on Friday east of the Baltic island of Gotland
Read MoreA crucial NATO summit gets under way in Lithuania as Kyiv claims it’s been relieved of the arduous road map to accession to the bloc. President Zelensky, sensing that Ukraine won’t be offered membership anytime soon, adopts a more combative approach
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