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Added on the 30/09/2022 20:11:30 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Explosions are seen and smoke rises over the strategically located Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine as the country says the war in the east has hit its fiercest level yet. Moscow's troops are pushing into the industrial Donbas region after failing to take the capital Kyiv. IMAGES
The Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists launch the last phase of a troop pullback ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russia, the warring sides said. OSCE monitors were observing the disengagement which could be spread over several days. IMAGES
The German and French foreign ministers make their first visit to Ukraine's war-torn east since the beginning of the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in April 2014. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
Sweden joining NATO shows Russian President Vladimir Putin "failed" in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening the alliance, its chief Jens Stoltenberg says. The Kremlin's invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under NATO's defence umbrella, but now "Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before," Stoltenberg adds. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address that Ukraine is capable of stopping Putin if the US provides Kyiv the "weapons it needs to defend itself." SOUNDBITE
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