Russian troops have been ordered to increase "shock and awe" attacks in Ukraine, it has been claimed.
The country's defence minister Sergei Shoigu is said to have given the signal to "dramatically increase bombardment" in the war-torn country.
He claimed this was needed to “exclude the possibility of the Kyiv regime inflicting massive rocket and artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure and residents of the Donbas and other regions,” said reports in Moscow.