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Follow us on: • Facebook icon • Instagram icon • Twitter icon • Snapchat icon • LinkedIn icon • YouTube icon More from The Telegraph • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • See top shops • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Putin lets slip that Russia has lost 54 tanks in a week President claims Ukraine suffered ‘catastrophic’ losses during counter-offensive and teases idea of a second assault on Kyiv His comments at the Kremlin came as Russian sources reported that a British Storm Shadow missile had Meanwhile on Tuesday, Ukraine showed reporters newly Ukraine also claimed its forces were moving forward, just after Putin said the long-expected counter-offensive was failing. “Both defensive and offensive fierce fighting is ongoing in the east and south of our nation. We have certain gains, implementing our plans, moving forward,” Valery Zaluzhny, the chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, said on social media. ‘The enemy did not succeed’ At a meeting with 18 Russian military bloggers and war reporters, Putin said Ukraine had been attacking Russian positions since June 4 in two areas in the east and, at one point, in the south. “The enemy did not succeed in any of the points of the offensive,” the Russian president said as he claimed Ukraine was suffering “catastrophic losses in terms of personnel”. In an apparent slip, he said Russia has lost 54 tanks in Ukraine since the start of the counter-offensive insisting that some of them “can be repaired and brought back to service”. Ru...

Kyiv— In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on alert Sunday in response to what he called "aggressive statements" by leading NATO powers. The move means Putin has ordered Russia's nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch, raising the threat that the tensions could boil over into a nuclear war. In giving it, the Russian leader also cited hard-hitting financial sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, including Putin himself. • Amid the worrying development, the office of Ukraine's president said a delegation would meet with Russian officials as Moscow's troops drew closer to Kyiv. Putin, in giving the nuclear alert directive, cited not only the alleged statements by NATO members but the hard-hitting financial sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, including the Russian leader himself. Speaking at a meeting with his top officials, Putin told his defense minister and the chief of the military's General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty." "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country," Putin said in televised comments. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, February 21, 2022. Alexei Nikolsky / AP Pu...

MOSCOW, June 13 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve in the war in Ukraine, adding that he faced a question only he could answer - should Russia try to take Kyiv again? More than 15 months since Putin sent troops into Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian forces are still battling with artillery, tanks and drones along a 1,000-km (600-mile) front line, though well away from the capital Kyiv. Using the word "war" several times, Putin offered a barrage of warnings to the West, suggesting Russia may have to impose a "sanitary zone" in Ukraine to prevent it attacking Russia and saying Moscow was considering ditching the Russia, he said, had no need for nationwide martial law and would keep responding to breaches of its red lines. Many in the United States, Putin said, did not want World War Three, though Washington gave the impression it was unafraid of escalation. But his most puzzling remark was about Kyiv, which Russian forces tried - and failed - to capture just hours after Putin ordered troops into Ukraine on February 24 last year. "Should we return there or not? Why am I asking such a rhetorical question?" Putin told 18 Russian war correspondents and bloggers in the Kremlin. "Only I can answer this myself," Putin said. His comments on Kyiv - during several hours of answering questions - were shown on Russian state television. Russian troops were beaten back from Kyiv and eventually withd...