3 h. ago UK to produce drones to help Ukraine fight off Russian aerial attacks

The drones will be designed by Ukraine, with support from UK scientists and technicians

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3 h. ago UK to mass produce drones to help Ukraine fight off Russian aerial attacks

It is the first project under a technology-sharing deal with Kyiv, the Ministry of Defence said.

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19 h. ago How Russia is grooming Ukraine’s children to fight for it: ‘I understood it wasn’t just play’

Abducted children and those from occupied territories are turning up in Russia’s military-style training camps, with fears that some are already on the frontlineLast summer, Sonya*, aged 17 at the time, had endured more than two years of a difficult life under Russian occupation in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. Her foster mother agreed that she needed a break.Growing up under forced assimilation had been scary, Sonya says, and her Russian-controlled school had offered to take her to a holiday camp in Crimea, a balmy peninsula once famed for being the spa of the Soviet Union. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Keir Starmer and NATO chief Mark Rutte make major vow to ensure Ukraine stays 'in fight'

Keir Starmer today welcomed Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte to Downing Street, as the UK-led international fund to provide Ukraine with military equipment topped £2billion

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3 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says nearly 60% of weapons are domestically made as role of drones increases

President says production of arms has already exceeded target set in July; one person killed in Russian strike. What we know on day 1,292Nearly 60% of weapons used by Ukraine’s military are domestically produced, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says, already exceeding a target he set two months ago. “During this war, Ukraine has reached the point where nearly 60% of the weapons we have, the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, are Ukrainian-made,” the Ukrainian president said on Saturday in his nightly video address. “And these are powerful weapons, with many advanced features.” In his address, he also pointed to a joint project to undertake weapons production in Denmark. The president in July called on his reshuffled government to take measures to boost production of weapons made in Ukraine to more than 50%, higher than at any other time since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.Ukraine has focused on drone production and on providing air defences to counter Russia’s intensive drone and mis...

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1 week ago Ukrainian MP murdered in Lviv after massive Russian aerial attack

A manhunt has been launched to find the Ukrainian politician’s killer, who reportedly fled the scene on an electric bicycle

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2 w. ago Norway's leader is the latest to visit Ukraine as Trump weighs peace options

Norway’s prime minister says his country's multibillion-dollar military and civilian support for Ukraine’s fight to defeat Russia’s invasion will stretch into next year

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2 w. ago Trump’s ceasefire deal is dead – and Ukraine should count its blessings

Editorial: With the White House all but abandoning its efforts to bring Vladimir Putin to heel, the people of Ukraine at least survive to fight another day – strengthened by the certainty that a bad peace is worse than no peace at all

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2 w. ago Trump suggests it would be 'impossible' for Ukraine to win the war without attacking Russia and blames Biden for failing to let Kyiv 'fight back'

Donald Trump has suggested it would be 'very hard, if not impossible' for Ukraine to prevail without attacking Russia. adding 'there is no chance of winning'.

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3 w. ago Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany

Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for UkraineAn adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2

Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for UkraineAn adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...

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