At least 16 people, including a child, have been killed in a Russian attack in eastern Ukraine, the president has said.
He said Russian attacks did not cause a direct threat to Romania, while a Ukrainian MP on Monday accused Romania of denying the evidence to avoid NATO sliding into a direct confrontation with Russia.We've been putting your questions to our experts and senior correspondents. Since those early days, the West has become more confident in Ukraine's ability to push back the Russian invaders, and military support has expanded to include modern tanks and long-range missiles. But the West is not yet prepared to commit combatants to the conflict.
To convert equipment into credible and effective military capability requires extensive training and logistics support. So, in short, the West is"getting on with it", but we should not expect to see Ukraine operating F-16s in Ukraine until at least 2024.Parts of Russian drone may have fallen on Romanian territory - reports
In the most dramatic incident, two people were killed in Poland by a missile that fell near the border last November. Romania is in NATO, and the defence alliance considers an attack against one member an attack against all.If you were with us on Monday, you will remember some back and forth between Ukraine and Romania over whether Russian drones exploded on Romanian territory.
"I can tell you no piece, no drone and no part of a device landed in Romania," he added, according to a translation from Romanian broadcaster Digi TV.Romania is in NATO, which deems an attack against one of its members an attack on all. He serves as the deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, representing the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and acts as an adviser to the former Chair of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Mustafa Dzhemilev.
But in a speech yesterday, Vladimir Putin came closer than any other official to describing the conflict as war, according to the Institute for the Study of War.