Nuclear war if Russia is defeated: Putin ally

On Thursday, a Putin loyalist cautioned NATO that a Russian victory in Ukraine may start a nuclear war. Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who now serves as the deputy chairman of Putin's influential security council, stated in a post on Telegram that "the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional conflict may precipitate a nuclear war."

Medvedev, who presided from 2008 to 2012, stated that nuclear nations "have never lost significant confrontations on which their survival rests."

A presidential assistant for Ukraine said on Thursday that it was time for the West to stop being afraid of Russian President Vladimir Putin and deliver his war-torn nation the desperately needed new tanks.

Presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted, "Time to stop trembling before Putin and take the ultimate step."

On Thursday, the United Kingdom said that it will deploy 600 Brimstone missiles to the conflict-torn Ukraine to aid in the country's defense against Russian forces, and Denmark announced that it would give Ukraine 19 Caesar howitzer artillery systems that were produced in France.

EU director Charles Michel declared on Thursday that tanks "must be delivered" to Ukraine after visiting the war-torn nation.

Following his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Michel tweeted, "I fully believe that tanks must be supplied. We want to help you because we know that the upcoming weeks could determine what happens next.

The circumstances behind a helicopter accident that claimed the lives of the country's interior minister and 13 other people on Wednesday were also being looked at by Ukrainian officials on Thursday.