Moscow has a greater safety margin than Brussels, a Russian Foreign Ministry official has said Moscow is ready for a vigorous standoff in the energy sector if the EU goes ahead with its plans to abandon Russian gas, oil and coal, a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official has said.

The ‘mindless’ handover of weapons to Kiev makes them ‘legitimate targets,’ Moscow said Supplying Ukraine with Western arms only serves to worsen the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Saturday, warning that Russian forces could potentially target such deliveries.

Moscow has released live-action footage showing a large-scale assault on the facility Live-action footage from a Ukrainian airfield was released by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Saturday. The video, which incorporates footage from soldiers’ body cams, shows troops arriving at the location by helicopter and then disembarking, before seizing the area.