3 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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16 h. ago Ukrainian special forces ‘blow up Russian supply railway’ deep behind enemy lines

At least three people were killed in two separate operations by Ukrainian intelligence services

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4 d. ago Poland sends 40,000 troops to eastern border as Europe moves closer to war with Russia and Putin masses his forces in Belarus for huge Zapad 2025 military drills following drone 'attack'

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has dubbed the upcoming military exercises 'very aggressive' and has closed the country's border with Belarus in anticipation of the intimidating display.

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8 d. ago Russian special forces commander issues chilling new threat and it's bad news for Ukraine

Apti Alaudinov — the commander of Russia's “Akhmat” special forces — made a series of chilling comments to Kremlin mouthpiece Evgeny Popov on the Russian state TV show 60 minutes

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8 d. ago Russia assaults Ukraine with over 800 drones and decoys, the largest such attack in the war

Russia has attacked Ukraine with 805 drones and decoys in the largest such attack since the full-scale invasion

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9 d. ago Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia

A new report has found 55% were subjected to pro-Russian indoctrination and 10% subjected to torture and cruel treatment

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin threatens to open fire on NATO troops in Ukraine as WW3 fears grow

Russia would see Western forces as 'legitimate targets' if Europe's 'coalition of the willing' offer security

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1 week ago Could NATO stand up to President Xi's 'Axis of Upheaval'? As China pushes for a new world order, how the alliance's military forces compare to combined might of Beijing, Russia and North Korea

After three and a half years of devastating conflict, Putin is showing no signs of relenting on his military ambitions, and there are growing fears that his target stretches beyond Ukraine.

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: No action from Trump as another Putin deadline passes

US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,288Donald Trump took no apparent action at the passing of his latest deadline for Vladimir Putin to come to the negotiating table with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was “very disappointed” in the Russian ruler, and was planning on “doing something to help people live”, said the US president, without any specifics. He was speaking on the radio show of Scott Jennings, a US conservative pundit.Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Russia was engaged in a new troop buildup in certain sectors of the frontline and still launching strikes on Ukrainian targets. “Now we see another buildup of Russian forces in certain sectors of the front. [Putin] refuses to be forced into peace Russia continues to launch strikes. Of course, we will respond to this,” said the Ukrainian president in his nightly address.European allies are ready to contribute to po...

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2 w. ago Vladimir Putin meets Xi Jinping arrives in China for security summit – Ukraine war live

Russian president and his Chinese counterpart shake hands as more than 20 world leaders attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in TianjinFollowing a meeting with Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his country’s forces are planning new strikes deep into Russia.In a post on X, the Ukrainian leader wrote:We analysed in detail the situation in the Zaporizhzhia direction and the enemy’s intentions. Also the situation in the border areas of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.We will continue our active operations in exactly the way needed for Ukraine’s defence. The forces and resources are prepared. New deep strikes have also been planned. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia to track all migrants and 'demand DNA' while UK hotel fury grows

Russia is days away from forcing migrant workers to download a mobile app which tracks their every moment and shares this information with police. It is also close to making DNA sampling compulsory.

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2 w. ago Russian forces break into another region of Ukraine with peace efforts stuck

A Ukrainian military official says Russia’s invading forces have broken into an eighth region of Ukraine, seeking to capture more ground in their three-year war of attrition as U.S.-led peace efforts struggle to gain traction

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2 w. ago London Flight With Over 200 Passengers Forced to Land in Remote Russia

London Flight With Over 200 Passengers Forced to Land in Remote Russia  The Daily Beast

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2 w. ago London Flight With Over 200 Aboard Forced to Land in Remote Russia

London Flight With Over 200 Aboard Forced to Land in Remote Russia  The Daily Beast

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2 w. ago Heathrow flight is forced to make emergency landing in Russia after engine failure, leaving hundreds of passengers trapped onboard

All flights from the UK to Russia have been banned since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022

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2 w. ago UK flight 'forced to make emergency landing in Russia' after 'engine failure'

The Boeing 777-39L(ER), which was carrying 311 passengers, was forced to make an emergency landing in the remote city of Nizhnevartovsk in Siberia after departing from Heathrow

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2 w. ago London Heathrow 'engine failure' LIVE: Plane carrying 311 makes emergency landing

The Air China jet set off for Beijing but was forced to divert to Nizhnevartovsk in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi region

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3 w. ago ‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border

North Karelia force says fence dividing Finland and Russia is no Berlin Wall – but it is now a key geopolitical faultlineAmong the serene lakes, thick forest and summer houses of North Karelia’s border zone, the line between Finland and Russia is almost invisible. Walking along the border path in Meriinaho, part of the Finnish border guard station of Ilomantsi, we are closer to St Petersburg than to Helsinki. This is the most easterly point of the continental European Union.Every now and then a discreet pair of matching striped fibreglass posts pop up from the blueberry patches on either side of the frontier. One is painted blue and white to indicate Finland, the other green and red to mark Russia. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kim Jong Un pays emotional tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Russia

Kim hands out medals to ‘heroes’ sent by North Korea to help Russia expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk

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3 w. ago Putin wants to ‘wriggle out’ of meeting, Zelenskyy claims, and says Russia does not want to end war – Europe live

Ukrainian president backs Donald Trump suggestion of more offensive reaction to Russian attacksKim Jong-un has hailed North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine as “heroes”, at a ceremony to honour soldiers who recently returned from the conflict, state media said on Friday.The North Korean leader said in a speech this week that his troops had displayed “fighting spirit of the heroes” during their operation to retake Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian forces – which had established a foothold there last year – the state news agency KCNA said. Continue reading...

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