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Hours earlier, president Vladimir Putin had ordered Russia's first wartime mobilisation since World War II. Advertisement. Ad. DIPLOMACY/POLITICS.

* One-way flights out of Russia were rocketing in price and selling out fast after the mobilisation order. * US President Joe Biden accused Russia of violating the tenets of membership in the United Nations by invading Ukraine and said Moscow was making "irresponsible" threats to use nuclear weapons. * "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people - this is not a bluff," Putin said in a televised address.

US President Joe Biden has declared at the United Nations that Russia has "shamelessly violated the core tenets"...

Administration concerns grow by the day that time is running short to revive the Iran nuclear deal and over China's sabre-rattling on Taiwan. "A permanent member of the UN Security Council invaded its neighbour, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map. He also met with French President Emmanuel Macron and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. But the heart of the president's visit to the UN this year was his full-throated censure of Russia as its war nears the seven-month mark. And Putin's new nuclear threats against Europe showed "reckless disregard" for Russia's responsibilities as a signer of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Biden said. US President Joe Biden has declared at the United Nations that Russia has "shamelessly violated the core tenets" of the international body with its war in Ukraine as he summoned nations around the globe to stand firm in backing the Ukrainian resistance.

He spoke on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 military reservists for duty, a move which prompted rare protests on the streets of ...

As his fourth and fifth conditions, he called for new security guarantees for Kyiv, and for the world to unite in calling out Moscow's armed aggression. He also called for Ukrainian lives to be protected, and for the country's internationally-recognised borders to be respected. In a pre-recorded video, the Ukrainian leader called for the creation of a special war tribunal and detailed alleged war crimes by Russia.

Commanders who led defence of Azovstal steelworks among those freed in exchange for Putin ally and 55 Russian soldiers.

On Thursday, the former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, said nuclear weapons could be used to defend the new territories that Russia planned to claim. In Donetsk, Russian proxy authorities claimed that Ukrainian shelling had killed six people. The Russian president is godfather to his daughter. I just said his name over and over again,” she said, adding that the call was brief and they had not discussed the conditions of his detention in Russia. Medvedchuk was arrested in April after escaping house arrest on treason charges days after Russia launched its invasion. Volynskyi is one of five commanders to be released who will have to stay in Turkey. Russia’s embassy in Britain tweeted in July that the fighters should be hanged. Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, criticised Russia’s leadership in unusually harsh terms on Thursday, saying “terrorist criminals should not be swapped for soldiers”. They had refused to give up for weeks despite running out of ammunition and with many wounded in the underground tunnels of the vast Azovstal plant. [Kremlin rejected the offer](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/ukraine-arrest-putin-ally-viktor-medvedchuk). Of those we have freed, 108 are Azov fighters,” said Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to the Ukrainian president, “We knew that negotiations were ongoing, but we didn’t know the details.