Russia’s defence ministry warned of an immediate “proportional response” if Britain continued its “direct provocation”, after the UK armed forces minister, James Heappey, described Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil that hit supplies and disrupted logistics as “completely legitimate”.
A Russian minister refused to rule out Moldova’s breakaway region, Transnistria, being drawn into the Ukraine war, in a potential escalation of the conflict to another European country. The deputy foreign minister, Andrey Rudenko, said on Tuesday that Moscow “was concerned” about the string of recent explosions in Transnistria, saying Russia “would like to avoid a scenario” in which Transnistria was dragged into the war.
