12 h. ago British soldiers will be sent to fight Russia alongside EU troops under a landmark new pact

Laked documents revealed that the UK and EU are set to unveil a defence agreement next week, bringing Britain into the deepest military alignment with the EU since its historic 2020 departure.

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4 d. ago British couple stuck in Thailand with mounting £100,000 hospital bill after soldier slipped at tourist hotspot they had found on TikTok and shattered his skull and leg

Liam Gibson, from Hartlepool, was visiting the idyllic Na Muang Waterfall 2 when the 21-year-old slipped and tumbled onto a rock ledge metres below.

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7 d. ago SAS 'very likely' to have been deployed with police in major UK terror attack swoop

Elite British soldiers from the Special Air Service are "very likely" to have been deployed alongside counter-terror police in a series of co-ordinated raids

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8 d. ago WW2 veteran's plea ahead of VE Day after seeing concentration camp horror firsthand

As a young British Jewish soldier Mervyn Kersh was 'on a mission' when he joined up in World War II but nothing could prepare him for the horrors he saw and wants the world to remember

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9 d. ago ‘I know I might not come back’: the young Ukrainians enlisting early to fight Russia

Kyiv has brought in new incentives for those under 25 in an effort to repopulate the frontline as the war grinds on“I’m not just here to avenge my brother,” says Luntik, 20, one of Ukraine’s newest soldiers, as he takes a break from training. He has joined up, he says, to try to liberate the territory of Ukraine from the Russian invaders: “When the thief is coming to your house and you are afraid he might harm you or kill your wife, you will take actions and, if necessary, kill the thief.”The mild spring day, somewhere in Kharkiv region, belies the seriousness of the conversation. Luntik is one of a dozen or so young recruits, all aged between 18 and 24, who have agreed to join Ukraine’s army before the age of 25, at which men can be forcibly mobilised. The lure is a bonus of 1m hryvnia (nearly £18,000), 0% mortgages and a short one-year contract; the scheme, launched in February, is a fresh effort to repopulate Ukraine’s frontline. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Despite a slew of broken car mirrors, Massachusetts residents take woodpecker invasion in stride

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings

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1 week ago What the first British soldier to enter Adolf Hitler's bunker after his suicide 80 years ago saw... and how he was allowed to take a memento

The first British soldier that the Soviets allowed into Hitler's lair, in July 1945, was Hugh Lunghi, who was in Berlin as an interpreter for the Potsdam Conference.

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1 week ago Why does Russia want the Crimea? The fight for power in the Black Sea

Why is a peninsula in Eastern Europe at the centre of a billion-dollar war?

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2 w. ago Did ‘Vatican diplomacy’ change Trump’s mind on Ukraine? I’m sceptical for three reasons | Orysia Lutsevych

Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron they all had his ear at Pope Francis’s funeral. But he is just as easily swayed by the elevator doormanThe most recent diplomatic effort to find a way to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took place at the most unlikely of events: the funeral of Pope Francis. The image of Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump leaning toward each other, under Carlo Maratta’s late-17th-century painting, The Baptism of Christ, rekindled hopes that the US might, at last, hear Kyiv out. Would this unexpected setting make Trump’s compassion, so frequently expressed for the loss of human life, real? And could it lead to a better strategy for ending this criminal and brutal war?The goal of Kyiv and the coalition of the willing – a group of 31 nations that back Ukraine in its fight against Russia – is to distance Trump from what has become a dangerous rapprochement between the Washington and Moscow. But this will be an uphill battle – Europe and Kyiv are trying to fight their way to Trump...

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2 w. ago North Korea confirms it has sent troops to Russia to fight Ukraine

Vladimir Putin thanks North Korean forces who says have fought ‘shoulder to shoulder with Russian fighters’

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2 w. ago UK military security breach as identities of elite soldiers mistakenly leaked for decades

It has been discovered that two publications associated with the British Army have been leaking secret information on the identities of soldiers for years and terrorists could have easily got their hands on it

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2 w. ago North Korea confirms for first time it has sent troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine war

Battle in Kursk showed ‘highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship’ between North Korea and Russia, state news says, hailing ‘heroes’North Korea has confirmed for the first time that it has sent troops to fight for Russia in the war with Ukraine under the orders of leader Kim Jong-un.The end of the battle in Russia’s Kursk region showed the “highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship” between North Korea and Russia, the North’s KCNA state news agency cited the ruling party as saying. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago North Korea makes first public admission it sent troops to fight for Russia

The admission comes as top US diplomat Marco Rubio warned the Trump administration would walk away from brokering peace talks if there was no realistic prospect of a deal in sight

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3 w. ago British travel firm offering holidays to dangerous country despite official warning 'do not travel'

A war-torn nation which was once an area of operations where British soldiers served - a war in which 179 of them lost their lives - is now being touted as a tourist destination by a London-based firm.

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