Russia does not target civilians in Ukraine and did not strike the shopping center in Kremenchug, Moscow’s envoy to the UN told the Security Council on Tuesday. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said that the mall caught fire due to an explosion of Western-supplied weapons and ammunition, stored at the nearby factory and intended for the shelling…

“Pumping up” Ukraine with weapons will make Russian forces “perform more missions on the ground,” Moscow has said “Pumping up” Ukraine with Western weapons will only lead Russia “to perform more missions on the ground,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

The situation is “tense” amid diminishing supplies from Russia, according to a federal regulator Germany’s Federal Network Agency announced on Monday that the situation with natural gas in the country was tense and may further deteriorate.