54 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Suspect held in Moscow car bombing of general, Russia claims

Russian security service alleges Ukrainian agent Ignat Kuzin rigged car with homemade explosives; Trump meets Zelenskyy and expresses doubt that Putin wants a ceasefire. What we know on day 1,159Russia’s FSB secret service said on Saturday that it had detained a man it suspects of killing a senior general with a car bomb outside Moscow. Russia has accused Kyiv of being behind the blast on Friday, which killed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik. The FSB alleged a Ukrainian agent it named as Ignat Kuzin rigged a Volkswagen Golf in the city of Balashikha with a homemade explosive device from a Ukrainian secret service stash in the Moscow area and that the bomb was then detonated remotely from Ukraine. A video released by the FSB showed a man identified as Kuzin, and what was said to be his arrest taking place on a forest road. Kyiv has not commented on the blast, which bore the hallmarks of previous attacks on military figures and high-profile backers of the Kremlin’s offensive.Donald Trump has sai...

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3 d. ago ‘I haven’t slept for two days’: Kharkiv residents reel from Russian attacks

Exhausted residents point out latest drone strike came hours after Donald Trump’s rare rebuke to Vladimir PutinAbout 1am on Friday, Yuliia Verbytska woke to the sound of an air raid siren. She grabbed her teenage children – Dmitry, 17, and Olexiy, 12 – and sat in the corridor, checking her phone. In the sky above came an ominous whine. Minutes later, a Russian drone crashed into the disused soap factory down the road in Polyova Street. There was an enormous explosion.“We don’t have a shelter in our building, so we hide behind two concrete walls. All the neighbours sit together. You wonder if this is your last moment,” she said. Friday’s raid followed a massive attack on Thursday on Verbytska’s home, Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, and on the capital, Kyiv, where 12 people were killed. “I haven’t slept for two days,” she said wearily. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Russian general killed after car blast as Ukraine peace talks could be scuppered

Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, was blown several metres through the air when a Volkswagen Golf exploded as the Russian army general walked by near his home in Moscow as a top US diplomat landed for talks

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4 d. ago Attacked on both sides: Putin launches major drone strike on Kyiv after Donald Trump blasted Zelensky for 'harming peace negotiations' and told him to give up land to Russia

Russia's overnight combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in Kyiv. At least nine people were killed and another 70 injured.

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6 d. ago Russian drone strike kills nine as Putin's forces launch fresh wave of attacks on Ukraine ahead of peace talks in London

Ukraine could be forced to swallow a bitter pill under ceasefire terms reportedly being ironed out between the US and Russia

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1 week ago The Handmaid's Tale star drops chilling hint Luke will die in final series

The Handmaid's Tale star O-T Fagbenle has hinted his character Luke Bankole's death is 'sealed' in the sixth and final series of the dystopian drama as he battles to save his daughter

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1 week ago Pictured: Biomedical science graduate, 25, who was killed when suspected drug driver ploughed into her family

Science graduate Dominyka Jonikaite, 25, was pinned under a BMW where paramedics battled to save her life - but she died at the scene.

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2 w. ago Russian mafia boss, 55, gunned down by assassin wearing chemical warfare protection suit

Shocking CCTV footage caught the moment a Russian mafia boss was brutally shot outside his home by a coldblooded assassin wearing a hazmat suit - with an onlooker stunned to silence during the horror moment

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2 w. ago ‘People were burned alive in their cars’: As peace talks falter, Ukrainians resign themselves to fighting on

At a medical stabilisation point on the frontline, medics work unrelentingly as scores of badly wounded soldiers are brought in every nightIt is 11.20pm, and in an instant the emergency centre comes alive. Doctors and medics are conjured up from somewhere nearby to treat two wounded Ukrainian soldiers who have arrived together – one with serious shrapnel injuries to his right eye, the other who had a pile of bricks fall on his chest after a drone strike.Yet it is the third, who arrives on a stretcher shortly after, who is the worst affected. The dark “panda eyes” signify a brain injury, while his back is also studded with bloody red wounds from drone or mortar fire. He has to be stabilised by half a dozen medics before being transported to a hospital in the rear. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Luxury £1.5milllion houseboat owner locked in High Court battle to save his spot next to London's Billionaire's Row

A 69-year-old business consultant is facing a high court battle to retain his high-profile berth on Chelsea Reach after claiming his £1.5 million houseboat is being unfairly turfed out.

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2 w. ago Luxury £1.5milllion houseboat owner locked in High Court battle to save his spot next to London's Billionaire'

Luxury £1.5milllion houseboat owner locked in High Court battle to save his spot next to London's Billionaire'  Daily Mail

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2 w. ago Trump team considering using drones to attack Mexican cartels on their own turf: report

Officials have reportedly discussed the possibility of using drone strikes to combat Mexican drug cartels

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3 w. ago UK ‘behind the curve’ on Russian undersea spying, former minister says

The comments came after it was revealed the navy had captured Russian sensors suspected of trying to spy on Britain’s nuclear submarines

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy criticises ‘weak’ US reaction to deadly Russian strike on his hometown

Ukrainian president says US embassy response ‘disappointing’ as he welcomes ‘tangible progress’ in talks with France and Britain. What we know on day 1,138See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian missile attack on Kyiv injures three and triggers air alert

Kyiv mayor warned residents not to leave their shelters, as all of Ukraine was placed under an air alert. What we know on day 1,138See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Zelensky blasts US official reaction to Putin strike on his home city as Russian missiles and drones kill 19 including nine children

The death toll from Friday's attack in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih included nine children.

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3 w. ago Eighteen people killed in Russian missile strike on Zelenskyy’s home city

Missile attack on Kryvyi Rih left 61 injured including three-month-old baby and elderly residentsEighteen people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, a Ukrainian official said.A further 61 people were injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih on Friday, including a three-month-old baby and elderly residents, the regional governor, Serhii Lysak, said. Forty remain in hospital, including two children in critical condition and 17 in a serious condition. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Putin's message to Zelensky: Missile and drone attack slaughters 19 civilians including nine children in strike on Ukrainian leader's home city

The death toll from a deadly Russian ballistic missile strike on Volodymyr Zelensky 's home city of Kryvyi Rig on Friday has risen to 19, including nine children.

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3 w. ago Boy, 3, who 'loved rockets' killed in Vladimir Putin's horror missile strike on Ukraine playground

Timofiy, three, was among 19 killed in a Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, the home city of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky this week, which also injured another 61

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian missile attack in Zelenskyy’s home town kills 18

Nine children among the dead in strike on Kryvyi Rih residential area as Kyiv says Moscow’s claim it targeted military gathering is false. What we know on day 1,137See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA Russian missile strike killed at least 18 people, including nine children, in a residential area of Ukraine’s central city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said – one of Moscow’s deadliest attacks this year in the war. The strike in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home town damaged residential blocks and sparked fires, the regional governor said on Telegram. More than 30 people, including a three-month-old baby, were in hospital, Serhiy Lysak said. At least 50 people were wounded, the emergency services said, adding that the figure was growing. Zelenskyy said rescue efforts were still under way and called on the west to exert greater pressure on Moscow. “All Russian promises end with missiles, drones, bombs or artillery,” he said in his nightly video address. “Diplomacy mea...

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