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Russia plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons, the Defense Ministry announced Monday, days after the Kremlin reacted angrily to comments by senior Western officials about the war in Ukraine and Moscow warned that tensions with the West are deepening.

The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.

Russia reportedly redeployed a battalion of the 76th Airborne Division to Kursk Oblast in an effort to gather an operationally significant force for a possible offensive operation against northeastern Ukraine and the administrative center of Kharkiv, the U.S.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported on May 5.

Speaking with DW, Ukrainian civilians share their experiences of leaving Russian-occupied territories via the only open border crossing between the two countries.

The Russians have launched an airstrike on energy assets in Sumy Oblast, and invincibility centres are being deployed in the city of Sumy. [An invincibility centre is heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts - ed.

Ukraine on Monday restored power to most of the households that lost electricity during overnight Russian strikes on the northern region of Sumy.

The Russians launched a missile and drone strike in Sumy Oblast on the night of 5-6 May, damaging, among other things, a high-voltage facility belonging to Ukrenergo, Ukraine's national energy company (NEC).

Russia's Defense Ministry says it plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons.

Russia is threatening to strike British military facilities and says it plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons. Mondays statements came after the Kremlin reacted angrily

An Ukrenergo high-voltage facility was among the civil infrastructure damaged in Russia's mass missile and drone attack on Sumy Oblast overnight on May 6, Ukrenergo reported on Telegram.