See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had no choice but to take into account the nuclear capabilities of Nato as the US-led military alliance was seeking the defeat of Russia. <\/strong>\u201cIn today\u2019s conditions, when all the leading Nato countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?\u201d Putin told Rossiya 1 state television, according to Tass.<\/p>\nThe west, Putin claimed, wants to liquidate Russia. \u201cThey have one goal: to disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part \u2013 the Russian Federation,\u201d Putin said, according to Tass.<\/strong> The west, he said, was an indirect accomplice to the \u201ccrimes\u201d committed by Ukraine.<\/p>\nUkraine\u2019s military said that Russia conducted unsuccessful offensives near Yahidne over the past day, after Russia\u2019s Wagner mercenary group claimed to have captured the village in eastern Ukraine near the focus on intense fighting. <\/strong>The General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces said in a morning update that Russia keeps concentrating its offensive efforts along the entire Bakhmut frontline, were Yahidne is located.<\/p>\nTwo Russian rockets hit a house on the outskirts of Kramatorsk, one of the main towns in the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region, on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong> The rockets appear to have missed their target, falling on the side of a local GP surgery, devastating the house next door as well as damaging houses around it. A Guardian team on the scene assessed the rockets shells likely came from a Russian Smerch rocket launcher.<\/p>\nUS president Joe Biden has said the prospect of China negotiating peace between Ukraine and Russia is \u201cjust not rational\u201d. <\/strong>Speaking on ABC News about China\u2019s peace plan, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve seen nothing [that] would indicate there\u2019s something that would be beneficial to anyone other than Russia. The idea that China is gonna be negotiating the outcome of a war that\u2019s a totally unjust war for Ukraine is just not rational.\u201d<\/p>\nChina has not moved towards providing lethal aid that would help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, and the US has made clear behind closed doors that such a move would have serious consequences, White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Sunday. <\/strong>\u201cBeijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real costs to China,\u201d Sullivan said in an interview with CNN\u2019s State of the Union programme.<\/p>\nThe German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said it was up to Kyiv to decide when, and under what conditions, to enter talks with Moscow. <\/strong>He suggested the same was true for any decision on recapturing the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\nAlexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a close ally of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, will visit Beijing this week, China\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed. <\/strong>Spokesperson Hua Chunying said Lukashenko was due to visit between Tuesday and Thursday, but gave no details about his agenda, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\nAlgeria will reopen its embassy in Kyiv one year after it was closed over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Algerian state television said on Sunday, citing a foreign ministry statement. <\/strong>\u201cThis decision falls within the framework of preserving the interests of the Algerian state and the interests of the national community in this country,\u201d state TV quoted the foreign ministry statement as saying.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin accuses west of wanting to liquidate Russia; US president Biden says China negotiating peace deal \u2018not rational\u2019See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had no choice but to take into account the nuclea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942\/revisions\/52963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}