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british military instructor accused of spying for Russia arrested in Ukraine

A British national accused of spying for Russia in Ukraine and preparing to carry out terrorist attacks has been arrested, Ukrainian prosecutors said on wednesday.

Ukrainian officials alleged that the man, who they did not name, collaborated with Russia’s special services and agreed to sell military information in exchange for money.

The Briton, who has been detained in Kyiv at his “temporary residence”, was accused of “unauthorised dissemination of information about the defense forces in conditions of martial law”.

Ukraine rejects Russia’s claims to have surrounded two key cities

Ukraine has denied Vladimir Putin’s assertions that Russian forces have surrounded Ukrainian forces in two key eastern cities.

Putin has claimed Ukrainian troops are encircled in Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Donetsk region, and in Kupiansk, an crucial rail junction in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

The russian president has also offered to negotiate a deal for the surrender of the Ukrainian cities.

Speaking at a meeting with wounded soldiers at a Moscow military hospital, Putin said the Russian military was ready to open safe corridors for Ukrainian and Western journalists to “let them see with their own eyes what’s going on”.

Ukrainian military officials have categorically rejected claims of Kupiansk being surrounded as “fabrications and fantasies”.

The situation in Pokrovsk is “hard but under control”, said Hryhorii Shapoval, spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern forces.

The Ukrainian Army’s 7th Rapid Reaction Corps, which is defending Pokrovsk, said Russia had deployed some 11,000 troops in a bid to encircle the city.

Some Russian units had managed to infiltrate Pokrovsk, it acknowledged in a social media post.

Everything we know about Putin’s new nuclear-armed underwater drone Poseidon

President Vladimir Putin says russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted.

Speaking at a meeting with soldiers wounded in Ukraine, Putin said the Poseidon drone was tested while running on nuclear power for the first time Tuesday, describing it as a “huge success.”

He said Poseidon is unmatched in speed and depth and “there is no way to intercept it.”

He said the nuclear reactor that powers Poseidon is “100 times smaller” than those on submarines, and the power of its nuclear warhead is “considerably higher than that of our prospective Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile”.

will Ukraine be able to defend Pokrovsk? Military analysts confirm ‘arduous situation’

Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances around the eastern city of Pokrovsk, the military and open-source analysts have said.

In a statement,Ukraine’s 7th Corps said Russian forces had deployed some 11,000 troops in an attempt to encircle the greater Pokrovsk area.

Enemy groups that had already infiltrated the city were attempting to push further north and northwest, it said.

Ukrainian open-source group DeepState said Russia has been able to break a military logistics route to the neighbouring city of Myrnohrad through infantry ambushes and drone attacks.

It warned that Ukraine woudl need to deploy a brigade-level force, rather than smaller units, to block further Russian infiltration of Pokrovsk.

“the situation in Pokrovsk is on the verge of critical and continues to deteriorate to the point that fixing everything might potentially be too late,” the group said.

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