Russian strike at Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant but reactors not damaged – as it happened
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Russia is highly likely to have lost at least four combat jets in Ukraine within the last 10 days, taking its attrition to about 55 since the beginning of its invasion, the British military said on Monday.
There is a realistic possibility that the increase in losses was partially a result of the Russian air force accepting greater risk in a move to provide close air support to Russian ground forces under pressure from Ukrainian advances, the defence ministry said in its daily intelligence on Twitter.
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin - under a travel ban to the UK due to sanctions - had already said he would not attend.
But not inviting any Russian representative to the Queen's funeral was particularly blasphemous towards Elizabeth II's memory" and deeply immoral", the foreign ministry spokeswoman in Moscow said on Thursday.
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