A cross-border raid by Kiev’s operatives has been thwarted, the Russian Federal Security Service has said Kiev’s operatives who had crossed into Russia’s Bryansk Region on Thursday have been forced back into Ukrainian territory and hit with a “massive artillery strike,” the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has said.

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The conflict in Ukraine is closely related to the bloc’s eastward expansion, Beijing’s UN envoy has said NATO should cease its “saber-rattling” and start promoting global peace, Chinese envoy Zhang Jun has said at a UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the second anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine.