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U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine via a key Polish transport hub are being suspended following President Donald Trump's order to pause arms shipments, Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, indicated on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s ministry of defense approved the use of 130 new weapons and military equipment samples in January this year alone, of which approximately 100 were produced domestically, the ministry’s press service reported citing a deputy minister.

Poland’s defense ministry has signed a €260 million order for nearly 60,000 guns and grenade launchers that will be produced domestically at a weapons factory in the central city of Radom.

Canada’s Liberal government has announced a ban on 324 types of firearms and has proposed donating them to Ukraine.

The Kremlin said on Sunday that amendments to Russia's nuclear doctrine had been prepared and were about to be formalized, meaning the relevant documents setting out the circumstances in which nuclear arms can be used by Moscow will be updated.

Ukraine said on Saturday that it targeted two Russian ammunition depots overnight, one of which, it claimed, held 2,000 tons of munitions, including weapons from North Korea.

Police have seized over 140 kilos of synthetic drugs dubbed ‘cocaine for the poor’ from a factory hidden on a fruit farm.

Ukrainian troops are suffering high losses because Western arms are arriving too slowly to equip the armed forces properly, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN in an interview aired on Sunday.

Ukrainian officials have prepared a list of targets in Russia, which they will use to pressure the U.S. government into lifting restrictions on the use of U.S. weapons against Russia.

An unwitting WWII collector is facing up to eight years in jail after amassing an arsenal of ammunition, including grenades and artillery shells, at his home in northern Poland.

The Polish parliament voted on Friday to allow soldiers protecting the border to use lethal weapons in case of direct threats to the country and their own security.

Ukraine’s president has urged politicians to remove restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons supplied by its western allies during a cabinet meeting with U.K. ministers in Downing Street.

China has suspended nuclear non-proliferation and arms control talks with the United States in retaliation for Washington’s recent weapons sales to Taiwan, Beijing announced on Wednesday.

South Korea could supply Ukraine with weapons if Russia delivers precision weapons to North Korea, a senior South Korean security official has said.

Poland’s defense minister has said his country will not transfer its own Patriot missile systems to Ukraine, quashing rumors of such a move.

Ukraine has reportedly used American weapons to launch strikes inside Russia, according to Western officials, including the U.S. senator.

U.S. President Joe Biden has approved the use of American weapons to strike targets inside Russia that were attacking the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Following the Lithuanian parliament’s decision a year and a half ago to ban Russian and Belarusian citizens living in the country from possessing weapons, all their issued permits have been revoked.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on NATO countries to provide more weapons and ammunition to Ukraine and to start intercepting Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine should be allowed to use U.S. weapons to launch attacks on Russian territory, Marco Rubio, the Republican deputy chairman of the U.S Senate Intelligence Committee, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).