Residents of the Australian state of New South Wales have been warned of the likely invasion of one of the world's most dangerous Sydney funnel web spiders due to weather conditions created by floods and warm weather.

According to the representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the security group at the negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the conflict, Alexei Nikonorov, the situation on the contact line in Donbass has been "rapidly deteriorating" over the past two months.