Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine’s use of western missiles against Russia could lead to nuclear response, says Moscow | Ukraine

The UK has announced ten new designations under its Russian sanctions regime.

In a statement, the government says it is targeting “those supporting Vladimir Putin’s attempts to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukraine’s children and erase their Ukrainian cultural heritage.”

Foreign secretary David Lammy is quoted saying:

No child should ever be used as a pawn in war, yet President Putin’s targeting of Ukrainian children shows the depths he will go to in his mission to erase Ukraine and its people from the map.

As Ukraine reaches the grim milestone of 1000 days of bravely defending against Putin’s illegal invasion, the UK’s support is iron-clad. With our international partners, we stand with Ukraine to confront Russian aggression and fight for freedom, liberty and victory.

The UK government claims “more than 19,500 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred or deported” and that “an estimated 6,000 Ukrainian children have been relocated to a network of re-education camps.”

In March last year the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, in relation to the forced deportation of children.

European troops could be needed for Ukraine peace says Estonia

Jennifer Rankin

Jennifer Rankin is the Guardian’s Brussels correspondent

European nations should be ready to send troops to Ukraine to secure any peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow orchestrated by Donald Trump, Estonia’s foreign minister has said.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Margus Tsahkna said the best security guarantee for Ukraine was Nato membership, but if the US opposed Kyiv joining the military alliance, then Europe would have to put “boots on the ground”.

He said:

If we are talking about real security guarantees, it means that there will be a just peace. Then we are talking about Nato membership. But without the US it is impossible. And then we are talking about any form [of guarantee] in the meaning of boots on the ground.

The minister also said it would be “really, really, really complicated” for Europeans to provide security guarantees to Ukraine without US backing, not least because Nato could ultimately be dragged into any clash with Russian forces.

The FT reports the view of some analysts, who suggest a coalition of the willing to support Ukraine could include Poland and the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a defence group that includes the Nordic and Baltic states and the Netherlands. These countries are meeting in Tallinn next month.

French president Emmanuel Macron has previously said European troops on the ground could not be ruled out and that Europe should not wait on the results of the US elections to decide on its future.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said the use of western non-nuclear missiles by the Ukrainian armed forces against the Russian Federation under the new doctrine could lead to a nuclear response, after president Vladimir Putin approved an updated Russian nuclear doctrine on Tuesday.

Speaking at his regular daily press briefing, Tass reports Peskov said that the new nuclear doctrine should become the subject of deep analysis both in the country and abroad.

Peskov said that the Russian Federation considers the use of nuclear weapons to be an extreme measure, but that updating the doctrine was needed to bring the document into line with the current political situation.

Peskov said the “special operation” – Moscow’s preferred term for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine – was being conducted in the context of a war unleashed by the west against the Russian Federation, and that the Russian military is closely monitoring the reports about plans to use longer-range US missiles in the Kursk region of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved an updated nuclear doctrine, Reuters reports the document posted on the government’s website showed.

In a key section of the document, Russia has expanded the list of criteria that require a nuclear response to include “aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear country”. Such actions, the doctrine says, will be considered a joint attack.

In another passage the document states:

In addition, a nuclear response from Russia is possible in the event of a critical threat to its sovereignty, even with conventional weapons, in the event of an attack on Belarus as a member of the Union State, [or] in the event of a massive launch of military aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, other aircraft and their crossing the Russian border.

Putin ordered changes to the nuclear doctrine in the weeks leading up to the US election.

Russian media reports that two arrests have been made after the death of navy officer Valery Trankovsky in Sevastopol. The senior officer was killed by a car bomb last week.

An official in Ukraine’s security services told the Ukrainian Pravda outlet last week that the agency had orchestrated the car bomb attack in the Russian-controlled port city that killed the chief of staff of the 41st Missile Brigade of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet, accusing Trankovsky of being “a war criminal” who had ordered missile strikes from the Black Sea at civilian targets.

Tass reports today that a 38-year-old resident of Sevastopol and a 47-year-old resident of Yalta have been detained, with Russia’s security service, the FSB, saying they have confessed. “The defendants are cooperating with law enforcement agencies and giving confessions,” it quoted the agency saying.

One of those arrested was accused of conducting surveillance on the Russian officer, while the other is accused of making the improvised explosive device that killed him.

At least six people were killed, including a child, in a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy, regional officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters reports twelve people were injured in the drone attack on a residential dormitory in the small town of Hlukhiv, the military administration of the Sumy region, which borders Russia, said on the Telegram messaging app.

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Ukraine marks 1,000 days on Tuesday since Russia’s full-scale invasion – with weary troops battling on numerous fronts, Kyiv besieged by frequent drone and missile strikes, and officials preparing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January.

However, Joe Biden’s decision to give the green light for long-range Atacms missiles to be used against targets deeper inside Russia is seen as something of a boost, potentially constraining Moscow’s options to launch attacks and supply the front.

“The longer Ukraine can strike, the shorter the war will be,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiga said before a UN security council meeting to mark the 1,000-day milestone.

The shift in policy, however, may be reversed when Trump returns to the White House in January, and military experts cautioned that it would not be enough on its own to change the course of the war.

Russia accused Biden of fuelling tensions with the move, and promised an “appropriate and palpable” response if Ukraine attacked Russia with American long-range missiles.

In other headlines:

• At least six people have been killed by a Russian drone strike in Sumy region. A child is reported to be among the victims.

• Russian security services have made two arrests after last week’s car bomb killing of a senior naval officer. Valery Trankovsky was killed in the Russian-occupied port city of Sevastopol.

• Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visited the eastern frontline towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Monday. “We are holding our positions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.

• North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un met on Monday with Russia’s natural resources minister in Pyongyang, state media reported, as visiting delegations from Moscow highlighted deepening ties.

• UN undersecretary general for political affairs Rosemary DiCarlo denounced the rise in civilian casualties in Russia’s attack on Ukraine over the weekend, which involved 120 missiles and 90 drones, and caused significant damage to Ukraine’s power grid. “The targeted devastation of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure may make the coming winter the harshest since the start of the war,” she warned.

• Britain is expected to clear Storm Shadow missiles for use by Ukraine on targets inside Russia, the Guardian reports, now that Joe Biden has agreed to do the same for the American long-range Atacms missiles.

• The German tabloid Bild has reported on what it calls a “top secret” delivery to Ukraine of 4,000 strike drones, developed by the German artificial intelligence firm Helsing.

• The Kremlin rejected a reported peace proposal from the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to be put forward at the G20 summit in Brazil, to freeze hostilities at the current positions of both parties.

• G20 leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Monday said in a joint statement that they “welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace” in Ukraine.