3 h. ago Putin dons his military fatigues to visit Zapad war games 500miles from the frontline

Vladimir Putin wore his military fatigues today on a visit to the Zapad 2025 war games around 500 miles away from the nearest frontline, while his trooped unleashed a drone in Kharkiv, east Ukraine.

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22 h. ago Putin is trying to trick Donald Trump, Zelensky says as he calls for 'force to be used' against Russia

Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of trying to trick Donald Trump, and has called for allies to use force against Russia. 

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24 h. ago NHS running ‘war game’ exercises as bosses predict busy winter

Local health organisations are asking for special attention to patients considered most vulnerable to winter viruses and hospital admissions

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66 h. ago Trump is no 'strongman' when it comes to Russia or Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits | Simon Tisdall

Putin and Netanyahu are creating chaos in the vacuum left by a weak US president. But there are still ways to foil themIt is too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.Eight months on, the exact opposite is happening. Both crises are expanding and escalating. The bubble has burst, his bluff has been called, the emperor has no clothes – and there is no denying that Trump, by alternately appeasing, excusing and encouraging the two foremost villains of these twin tragedies, is great...

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3 d. ago World leaders 'staring into abyss of World War 3' as Putin deploys strategic nuclear bombers

World leaders are warned that they are 'staring into the abyss of a Third World War' as Russia is positioning long-range strategic bombers and carrying out drills in several days of 'war games'

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4 d. ago PRIMAL INTELLIGENCE by Angus Fletcher: Why US generals always outwit AI in war games

AI may beat us at math's or logic, but when it comes to common sense, us humans will always have the upper hand

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4 d. ago Putin's threat to the West: Russia begins huge 'Zapad' military drills involving new Oreshnik nuclear missiles days after using drones to test NATO weaknesses as fears grow over European invasion

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have ramped up security ahead of the drills, with Poland ordering the complete closure of its border with Belarus for their duration

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6 d. ago Healey asks military to look at how UK can help bolster Polish defences

The Defence Secretary held talks in London with defence officials from Poland, Italy, France and Germany.

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6 d. ago War games involving Russia and Belarus start this week. What to know about the military drills

The last time Russia and Belarus held major joint military drills in 2022, Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine just days later

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6 d. ago Putin denies plans to target Poland as Russian UAVs' don't go that far'

Polish air defences were deployed when 19 Russian kamikaze drones crossed over onto the NATO member's airspace in the early hours of Wednesday morning as jets were also scrambled

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6 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone alert in Poland before Belarus border closure

Warplanes scrambled after warning from Ukraine; Poland to seal border over Russian and Belarus’s ‘very aggressive’ Zapad war games. What we know on day 1,295Warplanes were scrambled early on Wednesday after Ukraine’s air force warned that Russian drones had entered Nato-member Poland’s airspace. “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness,” Poland’s operational command said. The Ukrainian air force said drones were heading west and threatening the city of Zamosc in Poland. Ukrainian media reported that one was heading towards the western Polish city of Rzeszow, and said airports were being temporarily closed.Poland will close its border with Belarus on Thursday as a result of the “very aggressive” Zapad military exercises taking place in Belarus involving Russia, Donald Tusk has announced. The Polish prime minister said it was also a response to a growin...

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7 d. ago Starmer calls for more pressure on Russia as Trump mulls tougher sanctions

The Prime Minister and Nato chief Mark Rutte said Moscow should be slapped with stronger sanctions.

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7 d. ago Putin told US he will occupy Donbas region by end of 2025, Zelensky claims

Vladimir Putin told the US he will occupy the Donbas region of Ukraine by the end of 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.

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8 d. ago Ukraine shows diplomats damage after Russia's largest aerial attack since invasion

Senior Ukrainian officials have led 60 foreign diplomats on a tour of damaged government offices in the heart of Kyiv

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9 d. ago One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster. When will it dawn on Starmer? | Simon Tisdall

As the US president’s state visit looms, he’s leaving a trail of broken promises across the globe. Britain can’t afford to look like a lackey stateSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreSucking up to Donald Trump never works for long. Narendra Modi is the latest world leader to learn this lesson the hard way. Wooing his “true friend” in the White House, India’s authoritarian prime minister thought he’d conquered Trump’s inconstant heart. The two men hit peak pals in 2019, holding hands at a “Howdy Modi” rally in Texas. But it’s all gone pear-shaped thanks to Trump’s tariffs and dalliance with Pakistan. Like a jilted lover on the rebound, Modi shamelessly threw himself at Vladimir Putin in China last week. Don and Narendra! It’s over! Although, to be honest, it always felt a little shallow.Other suitors for Trump’s slippery hand have suffered similar heartbr...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Xi, Putin and Kim: heed China’s statement of intent, but don’t take it as fact | Editorial

Images of the autocrats at Wednesday’s military parade reflected the shifting global order. But Donald Trump is hastening Beijing’s riseOn Wednesday morning, Beijingers living near Tiananmen Square were issued with cold breakfast packs and ordered to refrain from cooking, lest smoke from stoves cloud the skies above the mammoth military parade. China’s Communist party goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that nothing obscures the message of such performances – in this case, that Xi Jinping is reshaping the global order and that China is, in his words, “unstoppable”.The parade marked 80 years since the end of the second world war, positioning China as the critical force in victory in the east then, and a force to be similarly reckoned with today as “humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum”, in Mr Xi’s words. China is “not afraid of bullies”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Latest: New Polish president endorsed by Trump visits White House

Poland’s new president is visiting the White House hoping to strengthen his relationship with President Donald Trump and make the case that the U.S. needs to maintain its strong military presence in his country

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1 week ago A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift. They might also be political jockeying

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even sinister, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

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1 week ago Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart | Simon Tisdall

The three-way partnership on show in Beijing is united in opposition to US hegemony and a western-dominated financial systemSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDonald Trump’s first reaction to the disconcerting spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un marching side-by-side at a huge military parade in Beijing was, predictably, all about him. This show of solidarity and strength, he complained, was nothing less than an attempt to “conspire” against the United States. Trump likes military parades – his own, that is. Even more, he likes to be on the podium, at the centre of attention. He casts himself as world number one. The images coming out of the Chinese capital this week challenged him on all three counts.This puncturing of Trump’s insecure ego, and the striking feebleness of his response, will greatly grat...

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1 week ago Russia launches over 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks more support

Russia has launched over 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities

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