1 hour ago Top UK military chief says British Army is ready to fight Russia 'tonight'

Sir Rob Magowan said Britain would never shy away from defending an ally

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3 hours ago Putin's new missile was flying faster than Mach 11 when it hit Ukraine city, say spy chiefs

The Russian president also made a threat to target Britain after Ukraine fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia

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7 hours ago Cooper suggests ‘we will continue’ to see ‘aggressive’ rhetoric from Putin

Yvette Cooper told Sky News that there has been an ‘aggressive, blustering tone’ from Mr Putin throughout the conflict.

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7 hours ago Putin’s missile attack threat on UK is 'bluster' and won't undermine support for Ukraine, says Yvette Cooper

Putin made the threat after Ukraine fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia

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10 hours ago Vladimir Putin threatens UK with new ballistic missile as Ukraine war escalates

The UK Government confirmed that Russia had, for the first time, used a ballistic missile with a range of ‘several thousand’ kilometres

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10 hours ago Foreign Secretary vows to ‘do everything that is necessary’ to help Ukraine

The head of the UK’s armed forces, Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, met Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss the war on Thursday.

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11 hours ago Russian ballistic missile attack a ‘severe escalation’, says Zelenskyy

Ukrainian president appeals for tough global response, as Nato accuses Vladimir Putin of trying to intimidate Kyiv’s alliesSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskyy said the use of an experimental ballistic missile by Russia amounted to “a clear and severe escalation” in the war and called for strong worldwide condemnation, as Nato accused Vladimir Putin of seeking to “terrorise” civilians and intimidate Ukraine’s allies.Nato spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah said: “Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter Nato allies from supporting Ukraine.” Continue reading...

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17 hours ago Nato says new Russian missile won’t deter support for Ukraine – live updates

Russia’s use of intermediate-range ballistic missile widely condemned; Zelenskyy says latest strike a ‘severe escalation’Putin says Russia fired experimental ballistic missile into UkraineUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has issued a statement on X after Vladimir Putin said Russian forces had hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new experimental mid-range ballistic missile.The Russian leader has “admitted” to taking a step “toward escalating and expanding this war” by using a new ballistic missile on Ukraine, Zelenskyy wrote.Putin struck our city of Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest cities. This is a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war — a cynical violation of the UN Charter by Russia.Putin alone started this war—an entirely unprovoked war — and...

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17 hours ago Zelensky demands response from allies as Putin threatens West with new missile

Vladimir Putin said the use of the new weapon to strike a target in Dnipro was in response to Ukraine’s use of UK and US-supplied missiles in Russia.

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19 hours ago Vladimir Putin's chilling threat to drag Britain into Ukraine war with new 'hazel' missiles

It comes in a week where Russia has repeatedly stoked fears that the war could extend beyond Ukraine - dragging Western allies including the UK in to the fighting

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