President Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting of Russia's Security Council on Wednesday on nuclear deterrence, the Kremlin said, as Moscow weighs how to respond to Ukraine's requests to Western countries to allow it to strike deep into Russia with long-range Western missiles.

Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, just claimed the UN is ignoring Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. More than two and a half years after Moscow sent its troops into the neighbouring European country,

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that people should re-listen to a warning issued by President Vladimir Putin who said the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles.