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07:00:29By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor
"And already at that time it meant that it was necessary to react to the Russian aggression much harsher and faster." The concern appears to have been prompted by an unconfirmed claim by a Ukrainian battalion, battling to defend Mariupol from a Russian onslaught, that a Russian drone had used a poisonous substance against the city.Listen: War crimes, art and on the frontlineIn Kyiv, the bleak reality of these alleged crimes is visited in Oksana's neighborhood. Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio recorded on the ground in Ukraine to give an intimate perspective of day-to-day life in a war zone.
Yesterday, a US defence official said there were indications that Russian forces were resupplying and reinforcing troops in the Donbas region. "I have heard stories of the desperate steps parents are taking to get their children to safety, and children saddened that they are unable to get back to school."
Mr Lukashenko has insisted that Belarus must be involved in negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, also saying that Belarus had been unfairly labelled"an accomplice of the aggressor".The two will meet at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport in the far eastern Amur region of Russia, Belarusian Belta news agency reported.
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