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Footage released by the US Air Force, shot on 14 March 2023, shows two Russian Su-27 aircraft flying close to a US MQ-9 unmanned aircraft over the Black Sea. The US Air Force has said the Russian jets conducted "an unsafe and unprofessional intercept", dumping fuel on the aircraft and striking its propeller, forcing Washington to bring down the MQ-9 Reaper drone in international waters. Moscow denied its aircraft had damaged the unmanned drone and said on Wednesday that it would try to retrieve the wreckage and also warned that it would react "proportionately" to any future US "provocations" as tensions. IMAGES
Images show smoke rising above the city of Lviv in western Ukraine as Russian strikes hit multiple cities across the state, killing several people. Electricity and hot water cuts were reported in Lviv following the bombardment. IMAGES
Images show smoke rising above the western city of Lviv following Russian strikes on several Ukrainian cities. Lviv mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, said bombardments targeted critical infrastructure, including energy facilities that saw electricity and hot water outages. IMAGES
In images released by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters are seen putting out a fire at a fuel storage facility in the southern city of Belgorod, after "an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters", according to the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. Belgorod lies some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow launched its war on February 24. IMAGES
Amateur videos posted to social media website purport to show the aftermath of Russian air strikes in the Syrian province of Hama and Idlib. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.