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Russia warns NATO: transport carrying weapons in Ukraine is a ‘target’ – Metro US

Russia warns NATO: transport carrying weapons in Ukraine is a ‘target’

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Defence Minister
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov in Moscow

(Reuters) – Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday the Russian military would consider NATO transport carrying weapons in Ukraine as targets to be destroyed, RIA news agency quoted him as saying.

Shoigu also said that the Ukrainian fighters holed up in the sprawling Azovstal plant in Mariupol were kept under secure blockade after President Vladimir Putin ordered that they be hermetically sealed off.

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)