5 h. ago Russian prisoners of war are fattened up as they say 'this is the best food we've eaten'

Thousands of men have been sent to the frontlines as cannon fodder by Russian despot Vladimir Putin and those captured by Ukrainian forces say they've been treated better as POWs than they ever have

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13 h. ago Younger Ukrainian Army generals are inflicting 'unsustainable losses' on Russian forces, reports from on the ground say

Ukrainian troops are now inflicting 'unsustainable losses' on Russian forces and keeping them at 'marginal gains', Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports.

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4 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv’s troops regain village near Pokrovsk where ISW says Russians falter

Moscow claims recapture of some Russian territory held by Ukrainian troops in Kursk; ‘security guarantees’ hole in US-Ukraine mineral deal. What we know on day 1,100Ukrainian troops on Wednesday announced a successful counterattack to retake the settlement of Kotlyne near the key city of Pokrovsk, which many Russian forces have died trying to take over the past year. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said: “The year-long Russian effort to seize Pokrovsk has so far failed, and Russian forces appear to have abandoned the effort to take the city directly, preferring instead to conduct a wide envelopment. The Kremlin may have abandoned even that effort for now, however, in the fact of increasing Ukrainian resistance in the area and extremely high Russian losses.”The Russian defence ministry said its forces had recaptured the settlements of Pogrebki and Orlovka, north of the town of Sudzha, in Kursk oblast where Ukraine has held territory inside Russia since August 2024. The minis...

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6 d. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russian forces ‘capture another settlement in eastern Ukraine’

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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6 d. ago Macron warns against ‘surrender’ in Ukraine as Trump claims Putin will accept peacekeeper deal

Macron and Trump disagree over aid and securing a lasting peace after US president says Russian counterpart has ‘no problem’ with European forces in UkraineEmmanuel Macron, the French president, has warned Donald Trump against a “surrender” of Ukraine as the US president said Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal” that could include European peacekeepers.The transatlantic rift over the war was apparent on Monday as Trump and Macron – the first European leader to visit the White House since Trump regained power – disagreed over aid and efforts to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US pressures Ukraine to nix its UN resolution demanding Russian forces withdraw

The U.S. has pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine in favor of an American proposal that doesn't mention Moscow’s invasion

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9 d. ago ‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline

Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer than the drone.”A gaunt 28-year-old former IT worker sits patiently beneath a window barricaded with sandbags, awaiting his turn on the operating table, cloaked in dust. Now an infantryman in the Ukrainian army’s Third Assault Brigade, “Sasha” (not his real name) has shrapnel embedded in his shoulder after the Russian assault on his foxhole. “When you hear a drone, you run as fast as you can and see if you can reach any trees,” he says. “If you’re out in the open, you try to get the drone behind you, so it won’t destroy your face. It’s not panic, this running; it’s a professional respons...

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1 week ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe 'asked Manchester United captain Katie Zelem what she did' on tour

Sir Jim Ratcliffe allegedly had an awkward moment at Manchester United's Carrington training ground when he reportedly asked the then-women's team captain Katie Zelem what she did

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1 week ago Cristiano Ronaldo's £61MILLION private jet is 'grounded' at Manchester Airport

Ronaldo's £61million aircraft arrived at Manchester Airport on Friday and was still on the ground on Tuesday afternoon having reportedly suffered a technical problem.

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1 week ago MPs likely to get a vote on UK peacekeepers for Ukraine, says Cabinet minister

Discussion of a peacekeeping force comes as US and Russian officials meet for the first time for talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

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