Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now - Reuters

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Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded a special United Nations tribunal impose "just punishment" on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Moscow's first wartime mobilisation since World War Two. read more

DIPLOMACY/POLITICS

* Russia and Ukraine carried out an unexpected prisoner swap, the largest since the war began and involving almost 300 people, including 10 foreigners. read more

* Putin's thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons was "dangerous and reckless rhetoric", NATO's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said. read more

* Security forces detained nearly 1,400 people in 38 Russian cities at protests denouncing mobilisation by Wednesday evening, a rights group said. read more

* One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast after the mobilisation order. read more

* U.S. President Joe Biden said Moscow was making "irresponsible" threats to use nuclear weapons, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Putin's mobilisation order. read more

* Western allies said threats to use nuclear weapons show Russia's Ukraine campaign was failing. read more

* European Union foreign ministers agreed to prepare new sanctions on Russia and increase weapons' deliveries to Kyiv. read more

* Foreign ministers from the G7 economies confirmed in a meeting in New York their cooperation in supporting Ukraine, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said. read more

* China's position on Ukraine will continue to be "objective" and "fair", foreign minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a U.N. General Assembly in New York.

* Uzbekistan's state prosecutors warned citizens against joining foreign armies after Russia offered fast-track citizenship to those who sign up. read more

* In Moscow's first update on casualty numbers in almost six months, Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict. read more

* Pro-Russian figures announced referendums for Sept. 23-27 in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, representing around 15% of Ukrainian territory. read more

NUCLEAR PLANT

* The head of the U.N. atomic agency said he would not abandon a plan to create a protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant despite Russian mobilisation plans and moves to hold a referendum in the region. read more

ECONOMY

* Germany nationalised gas importer Uniper (UN01.DE) and Britain capped wholesale electricity and gas costs for businesses. read more

QUOTES

* "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people - this is not a bluff," Putin said in his televised address. read more

Compiled by Hugh Lawson and Shri Navaratnam; Editing by Michael Perry

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