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Several reports have suggested that a shadowy section of Russia's powerful Federal Security Agency has come under particular scrutiny.

No fly-zones have been used in attempts to limit an ongoing conflict on the ground and to protect certain populations. But they are costly, requiring constant air patrolling and monitoring.

A flurry of recent developments suggest that people are groping for a way out of the crisis — or, failing that, for ways to prevent it from mutating into a wider proxy war.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Russia's move to raise the alert level for its nuclear forces after its invasion of Ukraine was a "bone-chilling development."

Berlin says it will purchase 35 of the $100 million-plus warplanes and 15 Eurofighter jets equipped for electronic warfare as part of its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mykhailo Fedorov has become one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s most visible lieutenants, deploying technology and finance as modern weapons of war.

European states accounted for 13% of global arms transfers in the period between 2017 and 2021, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found.

None of the country's 60 or so ambassadors, consuls or heads of diplomatic missions have agreed to serve the hard-line Islamist group since it seized power in August last year.

Because volunteers will be fighting as members of the Ukrainian army, they are unlikely to face charges in their home country over their specific actions in the war.