The commander of Ukraine’s Navy said in a rare interview that the Russian naval blockade of Odesa had been broken. He also described how the war is transforming naval tactics.

Vladimir Putin’s navy has been “pushed back across the Black Sea” by Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said on Wednesday. Arriving at a Nato meeting in Brussels, he also stressed that Britain was pushing to maintain the widespread support for Kyiv in its battle against Putin’s invasion and to “show that Russian aggression must never pay”.

Nato can outlast Russia in Ukraine, David Cameron told allies on Wednesday, saying its combined economic might was 30 times greater than Moscow’s. Addressing his first Nato meeting as Foreign Secretary,

Ukraine is now "closer to NATO than ever before,” the military alliance's chief said on Wednesday as Britain claimed Putin's navy has been pushed back across the Black Sea.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also stressed that Russia has amassed a large missile stockpile ahead of winter and had unleashed a wave of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's power grid and energy infrastructure to try to leave it "in the dark and cold" in coming months.

Ukraine's rapid accession to NATO will convince Russian President Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine has been pointless. Source: Ukrinform citing Kurt Volker, Former US Special Representative for Ukraine and Former US Ambassador to NATO,

Czech President Petr Pavel said it's crucial to support Ukraine's military over the next year to ensure Russia does not take the upper hand.

NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg urged members of the alliance on Tuesday to "stay the course" in supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia's invasion as both the United States and European Union struggle to agree on further military aid.

Ukraine will not surrender land to Russia in exchange for Nato membership, its foreign minister said, as a US official predicted that President Putin was unlikely to consider calling off his invasion