14 h. ago At least three killed in Russia’s ‘most powerful’ strike on Ukraine’s second city – Russia

Kharkiv mayor says a further 22 people were injured after nighttime attack involving drones, missiles and guided bombsThe large Russian drone-and-missile attack that targeted Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, has killed at least three people and injured 21, local Ukrainian officials said, according to the Associated Press (AP).Kharkiv’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attack also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. Citing preliminary data, he said Russia used 48 Shahed drones, two missiles and four aerial glide bombs in the attack. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: We bomb their warplanes, they bomb our civilians, says foreign minister

Repeated shutdowns at Moscow airports due to drone threat; military airfields and fuel depots inside Russia hit. What we know on day 1,200Russia’s missile and drone barrage against Kyiv on Friday killed at least six people, Ukrainian officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said three emergency workers who went to a bomb site were “killed in a repeat Russian strike”. Two died in an attack on the northern city of Chernihiv and at least one more in the north-western city of Lutsk. Eighty people were injured in attacks across Ukraine.Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said Russia had “‘responded’ to its destroyed aircraft by attacking civilians in Ukraine Multi-storey buildings hit. Energy infrastructure damaged.” Ukrainian spies last weekend destroyed Russian strategic bomber aircraft on the ground using quadcopter drones hidden on top of trucks in Operation Spiderweb.Russian aviation authorities restricted flights at Moscow regional airports on Friday nig...

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34 h. ago ‘He’s a bulldog’: the man behind the success of Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb

Vasyl Malyuk, who hailed giving Russia a ‘slap in the face’, has scored a series high-profile successes as head of SBUEurope live – latest updatesIt was unsurprising to those who know Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), that his statement announcing the success of Operation Spiderweb had a certain physicality to it.The audacious drone attacks on distant bases hosting Russia’s strategic bombers was “a serious slap in the face to Russia’s power”, said Malyuk, 42, a sometime boxer and weightlifter. “Our strikes will continue as long as Russia terrorises Ukrainians with missiles and Shahed drones.” Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Russia bombards Kyiv after Putin vows revenge for Operation Spiderweb

Four people killed and 20 wounded as missiles and drones strike Ukrainian capitalEurope live – latest updatesRussia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at Kyiv overnight, killing four people, after Vladimir Putin had vowed to respond to Operation Spiderweb.Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Friday that Russia had launched more than 400 drones and more than 40 missiles at the country, as he urged allies to build pressure on the Kremlin to end its war. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Four dead in Kyiv after Russia hits Ukraine with missile and drone attacks in 'revenge' strike

The attack comes just hours after Vladimir Putin said he would seek revenge for a Ukrainian drone strike last week

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4 d. ago ‘We have no plans to attack Britain,' say Russia’s London diplomats as defence review lays out Putin threats

The Strategic Defence Review mentions Russia 33 times and tells of the ‘immediate and pressing threat’ posed by Putin’s regime

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7 d. ago Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman

Confiscating the funds would shock Putin, help Ukraine, and take advantage of disillusionment in the US economyUkraine needs more than long-range missiles and fibre-optic drones in its fight with Russia. What it needs is more money, and lots of it.In particular, the war-torn nation should be handed the €300bn (£250bn) of frozen Russian assets stored mostly in accounts hosted by the Euroclear trading system. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump's 'Golden Dome for America' pictured as it shows incoming missiles from Russia

Donald Trump has been working with war experts to create a demonstration of what would happen if a missile was launched at the US with their new so-called 'golden dome' in place

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8 d. ago Golden Dome missile defense program won’t be done by end of Trump’s term

Exclusive: Pentagon officials expect a space-based weapon to be ready only for a demonstration by 2028Donald Trump’s so-called Golden Dome missile defense program – which will feature space-based weapons to intercept strikes against the US – is not expected to be ready before the end of his term, despite his prediction that it would be completed within the next three years.In the Oval Office last week, when he announced that the US space force would oversee the project under Gen Michael Guetlein, the president said he was confident that it would be “fully operational” before he left office. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Flood of North Korean arms to Russia, say US, Japan and others

20,000 cargo containers of ammo, shells, missiles and gear sent, says watchdog replacing UN panel scuppered by Moscow. What we know on 1,192North Korea has supplied to Russia as many as nine million rounds of artillery and rocket launcher ammunition, as well as at least 100 ballistic missiles along with self-propelled artillery guns and long-range multiple rocket launchers, according to the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, a group comprising 11 UN members. The shipments have enabled Russia to increase attacks against civilian targets, and there have been 20,000 containers of the gear transferred by Russian cargo ships, in violation of UN sanctions. The monitoring group comprises the US, South Korea, Japan, and eight other UN member states. It was set up after Russia and China cooperated to scrap an official security council panel that did the job.The multilateral group has said in its first ever report that Russia is helping North Korea improve its missiles’ guidance systems ...

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9 d. ago Taurus cruise missiles: Weapons Germany could be sending Ukraine to strike deep into Russia

German chancellor Friedrich Merz says it is possible Berlin will send the longe-range cruise missiles to Kyiv

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1 week ago Western restrictions on Ukraine firing missiles into Russia 'were secretly lifted LAST YEAR' it's revealed

The revelation could spark a diplomatic firestorm across Europe and beyond, as NATO allies such as the UK and France are now exposed to the risk of retaliation from the Kremlin.

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1 week ago Trump claims Canada is considering becoming 51st state in exchange for free Golden Dome protection

Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney has repeatedly rejected Trump’s overtures despite the president’s latest remarks

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1 week ago Trump offers Canada free spot under nuclear Golden Dome as '51st state'...or it will cost $61 billion

Trump offered terms for Canada getting into the U.S. Golden Dome, something he said it sought. He said the cost would be $61 billion if the country remains 'separate' from the U.S.

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1 week ago Donald Trump makes chilling WW3 protection ultimatum to Canada as he pushes for '51st state'

In a bizarre protection offer, Trump is offering Canada access to his “fabulous” Golden Dome air defence for free if they give up their sovereignty and hand it to him

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1 week ago Ban on Ukraine firing missiles into Russia secretly lifted months ago under Joe Biden

Ukraine escalation fears as it emerges western ban on Kyiv's missile targeting into Russia was secretly lifted in November and not restricted to the defence of Kursk as previously thought

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1 week ago North Korea threatens nuclear war in SPACE as it joins Russia and China in condemning Trump's $175billion Golden Dome missile defence system

Pyongyang said Trump's plan risks turning 'outer space into a potential nuclear war field' and called it 'the height of self-righteousness [and] arrogance.'

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1 week ago North Korea says Donald Trump’s Golden Dome plan threatens ‘outer space nuclear war’

North Korea says Trump’s $175bn missile defence plan represents ‘the height of self-righteousness’

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1 week ago Russia Ukraine war latest: Germany says Western allies are lifting range limits on weapons sent to Kyiv

'Long-range fire' allows Ukraine to hit military targets in Putin's hinterland, says Merz

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1 week ago Germany greenlights use of NATO missile strikes 'deep into Russia'

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Germany along with Ukraine's other key Western backers had lifted range restrictions on weapons they send to Kyiv.

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