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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg calls Russia's 'heavy losses' in the Black Sea a 'great victory' for Ukraine, after Kyiv said it had destroyed another Russian warship in the key battleground. SOUNDBITE
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
Two Russian Su-27 jet fighters collided with an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on the West to "kill Russian exports" as a price for Moscow's invasion of his country, asking the world not to finance the Kremlin's "war machine." SOUNDBITE
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposes a fresh wave of sanctions against Russia that would include a ban on coal imports and blocking Russian ships from entering European ports. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden brands his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "dictator" during his State of the Union address, one week after Moscow invaded Ukraine. SOUNDBITE