7 h. ago Moment Ukrainian forces wipe out Russian platoon on front line as drone footage shows personnel carrier destroyed and soldiers picked off

It comes amid the Russian army's biggest 24-hour advance into Ukraine in over a year, just ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

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3 d. ago As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold warNuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the demolition of a key pillar of global arms control. It will accelerate an already frantic nuclear arms race in Europe and Asia at a moment when US and Russian leaders are taunting each other like schoolboys.Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has repeatedly threatened the west with nuclear weapons during his war in Ukraine. Last November, Russian forces fired their new Oreshnik hypersonic, nuclear-capable intermediate-range missile at Dnipro. It travels “like a meteorite” at 10 times the speed of sound and can reach...

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4 d. ago Horrific moment chairlift collapses in a Russian resort, with four people plunging into a lake, and six hitting the ground

The ride from hell left a dozen people injured in Nalchik, in the mountainous region of Kabardino-Balkaria in southern Russia on Friday.

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9 d. ago Putin's bromance with fellow warmonger exposed as pair pose for bizarre 'loved

During a meeting between Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, the pair were taken outside and seemingly told to go and sit on a bench . . . lovingly

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1 week ago Moment that Russian volcano explodes for first time in 600 years in dramatic eruption

The Krasheninnikov Volcano erupted overnight in the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was the epicentre of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings on Wednesday.

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3 w. ago Moment 'Russian spy offers sensitive information about Grant Shapps to undercover British agents posing as Putin's cronies' is shown to jury

Howard Phillips, 65, is on trial accused of handing a USB stick containing information about Grant Shapps to undercover police - who he believed were Russian spies.

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4 w. ago Astonishing moment Russian soldiers surrender to Ukrainian patrol made up entirely of robots and drones

Footage shows both FPV and kamikaze ground drones striking a Russian dugout, before troops emerge holding a handwritten sign reading 'We want to surrender'.

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4 w. ago Moment 'spy' is arrested by undercover officers pretending to be Russian agents after he 'handed over USB stick containing Grant Shapps' details'

Body worn footage shows Howard Phillips, 65, in handcuffs as he is walked towards the entrance of a coffee shop in London by plain-clothed officers and told of his arrest.

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4 w. ago Moment 'Russian spy' drops off USB stick in plot to leak sensitive details about Grant Shapps is shown in court

Howard Phillips, 65, of Harlow in Essex, is on trial over allegedly intending to assist the Russian Intelligence Service by helping people he believed were agents working for Moscow.

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