42 h. ago Trump's envoy mocks Starmer's peacekeeping Ukraine plan as 'Churchill

Steve Witkoff, 68, criticised Britain and France 's plan to send peacekeepers to Ukraine in order to prevent another Russian invasion if a ceasefire agreement is made.

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47 h. ago ‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations

Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UKIn graves at Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok, in Russia, lie the bodies of 663 British military personnel. Most of the dead lost their lives in the period just after the first world war, when allied troops were sent to support rightwing White forces in the Russian civil war against the Bolsheviks, while 41 are casualties from the second world war Arctic convoys.Their resting places have been tended over decades by the Russian military and by private contractors, paid by the UK’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, economic sanctions meant Britain could no longer pay for the graves to be maintained. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Kim Jong Un will send more soldiers and arms to join Putin's war in Ukraine

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his unwavering support for Russia's war in Ukraine on Friday after he vowed to continue backing Russia amid its ongoing deadly invasion of Ukraine.

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3 d. ago Trump revokes legal status of more than 500,000 migrants... but faces fury over uncertainty for Ukrainian refugees

Uncertainty still remains for some 240,000 Ukrainians who sought refuge in the US following the Russian invasion in 2021.

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4 d. ago Could Heathrow fire be a Russian sabotage attack? Substation blaze fits the pattern of Putin's disruption campaign in Europe and exposes 'vulnerability' in UK infrastructure

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

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4 d. ago This AP map shows sabotage across Europe that has been blamed on Russia and its proxies

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago

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4 d. ago Russia has suffered its largest troop losses since WW2 with 900,000 dead or wounded on Ukrainian frontline, UK reveals as Zelensky says 'nothing has changed' despite Putin's ceasefire agreement

Russia has suffered the most losses in life since World War Two during its invasion of Ukraine, British intelligence has claimed. 

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4 d. ago Russia names former FSB officer behind Ukraine invasion to lead peace talks

Terms of proposed ceasefire remain unclear as Moscow launches airstrikes and Kyiv hits Russian airbaseRussia has named a secretive former FSB chief who played a key role in planning Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to lead next week’s peace talks with the US in Saudi Arabia.Moscow announced that Sergei Beseda, the former head of the spy agency’s fifth directorate – who oversaw intelligence operations in Ukraine and orchestrated the recruitment of collaborators before the full-scale invasion – will travel to Riyadh for Monday’s talks with the US. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Elite London law firm fined £465,000 for Russian sanctions breaches

Former Moscow office of Herbert Smith Freehills made six payments totalling £3.9m to sanctioned banksHerbert Smith Freehills, the elite global law firm based in London, has been fined by the British government after its former Moscow office made millions of pounds in payments to sanctioned Russian banks.The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), said it had imposed a penalty of £465,000 on HSF Moscow, which was a subsidiary of HSF London until its closure in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘As real as it can get’: EU to loan €150bn for European defence from invasion

EU launches scheme to buy more weapons in Europe as Russia remains ‘a threat for the foreseeable future’Europe needs to be able to deter potential invaders by 2030, the EU executive has said as it launched a push to buy more weapons in the bloc and from allied countries, rather than from the US.The UK, US and Turkey will be excluded from defence contracts funded by a €150bn (£125bn) EU loans programme, unless they sign a security and defence partnership agreement with the EU. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Ukraine forces launch surprise raid several kilometres into Russia as Putin talks to Trump

Troops launched the attack as Russia has approved a 30-day ceasefire deal with Ukraine - marking the first break in fighting since Vladimir Putin's invasion of the country over three years ago

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6 d. ago Netanyahu will never accept peace. Where will his perpetual war lead next? | Simon Tisdall

Israel, backed by a capricious Donald Trump, never intended to honour the ceasefire. These airstrikes mark a dire new phase in the conflictThe first and last rule of Benjamin Netanyahu’s doctrine of perpetual warfare is brutally to the point: peace cannot and must not be allowed to last. As indiscriminate, deadly fire once again descends upon the defenceless people of Gaza, unleashed on the orders of Israel’s bellicose prime minister, an anguished cry is heard. Is the precious two-month-long ceasefire with Hamas definitively over? To which comes the dismaying answer: it barely matters. This truce, now shattering into a million pieces, was but a brief, deceptive pause in a war that never stops.It doesn’t stop because Netanyahu is sustained in office by the unceasing state of national emergency that he and his supporters have nurtured and prolonged since the 7 October 2023 terrorist attacks. The war doesn’t stop because Netanyahu’s overarching aim – the destruction of Palestinian hope...

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7 d. ago Trump administration pulls US out of body investigating Ukraine invasion

Russia and allies were target of International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against UkraineThe Trump administration is withdrawing from an international body formed to investigate responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine in the latest sign that the White House is adopting a posture favouring Vladimir Putin.The Department of Justice said it was pulling out of the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) two years after the Biden administration joined it with a commitment to hold Putin, Russia’s president, to account for the 2022 invasion and subsequent crimes committed by Russian forces. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Putin ally in heated clash with radio host as he claims Ukrainians ‘thankful’ for Russian invasion

Vladimir Putin's former advisor has suggested that Ukrainians should be "thankful" for Russia invading their country, prompting a heated clash with a UK radio host.

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1 week ago Hopes of price war at the pumps as 4p cut off a litre of petrol

Fuel prices have not been so low since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which sparked a huge rise due to concerns about disruption to supplies as well as sanctions on Russia.

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1 week ago Trump goes for the jugular with his Canada threats — and does it with a smile

Trump’s insistence that Canada is not a real country bears a striking resemblance to Putin’s in the run-up to his invasion of Ukraine, Richard Hall writes.

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1 week ago From daring invasion to rapid retreat: the end of Ukraine’s Kursk gambit

‘Our problems started long before,’ says Ukrainian soldier after seven months in the occupied Russian region

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1 week ago Putin’s ‘appetite for conflict’ will grow without Ukraine peace deal – Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer’s comments came as diplomatic efforts continued to find an end to the war triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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1 week ago Ukrainian refugee, 25, who came to Britain in wake of Putin's invasion took his own life in car after suffering crippling 'loneliness', inquest hears

Oleksandr Cherednichenko, 25, (pictured) moved to the UK in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine made it unsafe for him to stay there.

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1 week ago Three ridiculous Vladimir Putin demands made to finally end Ukraine invasion

Ukrainian and Senior US officials are getting ready to sit down in Saudi Arabia for talks centred on bringing the war to a halt.

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