Moscow: If a third World War was to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday. According to the media reports, Russia which launched what it calls a special military operation against Ukraine last week would face a real danger if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons.

Russia said its forces took control the first sizable city on Wednesday seizing Kherson in the south a week after launching its invasion on Ukraine, as fighting raged around the country and Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia. More than half a million Ukrainians have fled.
Ukraine President Zelensky said nearly 6K Russians had been killed in the first six days of Moscow’s invasion and that the Kremlin would not be able to take his country with bombs and air strikes.