Russia-Ukraine war updates: Moscow threatens to target ‘Western weapons’

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• The US Senate is to vote on a military aid package for Ukraine that is all but certain to pass after the House of Representatives approved the assistance with broad bipartisan support.
• Referencing the US aid package, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Russia will “increase the intensity of attacks” on Western weapons.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says US President Joe Biden promised Kyiv that the aid would arrive “quickly”.
• A Russian aerial attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa has injured nine people overnight, including four children, Ukrainian officials say.
• Officials in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, say 120 civilians there have been killed and 651 people injured in Ukrainian attacks since the start of the war in February 2022.
• China condemns US claims that Beijing has fuelled the Ukraine war by supplying components to Russia that it has used to expand its defence industry, calling them “groundless accusations”.