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Poland’s deputy foreign minister has criticised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his opposition to a proposal to ban all Russian nationals from the European Union.

In a press conference in Olso on Monday, Scholz said that this was “not the war of the Russian people, but it is Putin’s war”.

Asked about the comments during an appearance on Polish state broadcaster TVP1, Marcin Przydacz said he rejected the idea of “good Russians and a bad tsar”.

“[Scholz] did not read all those reports about the enormous support for Vladimir Putin’s policy among ordinary Russians, maybe he did not see all the videos in which people gather with the letter Z,” he said.

“Russian society, unfortunately, fed by propaganda for not even the last years, but for decades, hundreds of years, lives in an imperialist dream in which its position would depend on how many territories it seizes, how many countries it conquers.”

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Avoid Russian bases, Zelenskiy tells Ukrainians after explosions

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told Ukrainians living in Crimea to avoid Russia military bases after three strikes on the peninsula in the past week.

“Do not approach the military objects of the Russian army,” he said in his latest video address, adding that they might also explode because of “bungling”.

Russia has blamed the explosions on “sabotage”, and earlier claimed to have detained six members of an Islamist terror cell.

Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, but speaking about them to the Guardian a key adviser to the president said that “Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouse explosions and high risk of death for invaders and thieves”.