In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence and the very nature of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries are at war with russia. Meanwhile, moscow s defence ministry says its forces have recaptured 10 settlements over the past two days and that ukraine s military has suffered heavy casualties. But president zelensky says kyiv anticipated russia s counteroffensive and knows how to respond. As russian troops continue to push back against ukrainian forces in kursk, the international committee of the red cross says says three of its workers were killed in an air strike. A spokesperson said the icrc is outraged by the attack. The bbc s ukraine correspondent james waterhouse is following reaction from kyiv. Attacks like this or humanitarian vehicles being struck in this way is rare. I think a couple of months ago we saw a vehicle belonging to the international food kitchen get hit. But this is certainly cert
of the war in ukraine cast on them both. first, the g7, where the world s most advanced economies are meeting in japan. the us has said it will support providing advanced fighterjets including us made f16s to ukraine and also back training ukrainian pilots to fly them. meanwhile, moscow s closest ally in the middle east, syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was only massive russian military support, that allowed assad, condemned by many as a war criminal, to cling onto power. the summit was also attented by the ukrainian president, volodymr zelensky, who is due tojoin the g7 group in hiroshima on sunday, where its expected he ll address leaders and hold a meeting with us presidentjoe biden. details on that later in the programme. but first, the news of more military support for ukraine. a short whie earlier, us national security advisor jake sull