US President Joe Biden brushed off a threat from Russian leader Vladimir Putin about war against the West if Ukraine’s allies allow it to use weapons deeper inside Russia. It is a shift that Kyiv has pleaded for, but no decision was immediately announced following a meeting on Friday between Biden and Britain’s prime minister....
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Russia expels 6 British diplomats amid feud over long-range weapons
Russia expelled several British diplomats last month over allegations that they were “threatening the security” of the Kremlin. Russia revoked the six diplomats’ accreditation due to what Moscow’s Federal Security Service said were “signs of intelligence and subversive work,” CNN reported Friday. Their behavior was viewed as “threatening the security of the Russian Federation,” Moscow said...
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Putin terrified Kyiv could shoot down his jet en route to Turkey
Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Turkey in early October, after cancelling several previously planned visits to the country. However, President Putin has reportedly issued an ultimatum to Turkey amid growing worries over an assassination plot. The Kremlin made clear to Ankara that President Putin wants his plane to be escorted by Russian fighter jets....
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Lammy and Blinken hold Kyiv press conference amid missiles pressure
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World order ‘under threat,’ US and UK spy chiefs warn
They said they were “working ceaselessly” for a cease-fire and hostage deal in the Gaza Strip. The two spy chiefs also said they saw the war in Ukraine coming “and were able to warn the international community,” in part by declassifying secrets to help Kyiv. Burns and Moore said their agencies “exploited our intelligence channels...
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Russian state television threatens to nuke Britain
Andrei Gurulev made the remarks on Russian state television (Picture: Rossiya-1) Russia state TV has yet again threatened a nuclear attack on Britain to ‘sink it beneath a raging radioactive tsunami’. Reservist general and hardline MP Andrei Gurulev remarked ‘Swim, swim, swim’ as he demanded the use of Moscow’s unique Poseidon high-speed underwater atomic drone....
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky accuses Britain of slowing delivery of long-range missiles
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Ukraine-Russia war: Moscow captures two Ukrainian villages in march towards key city
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Putin will soon turn his war machine on Britain
In October 2022, in the dead of night, specialist troops and officials from Moscow slipped into St Catherine’s Cathedral in Kherson and exhumed the bones of famed 18th-century Russian commander Grigory Potemkin. He was a favourite of Empress Catherine the Great and played a critical role in the annexation of Crimea in 1783. No one...
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Britain’s leadership on Ukraine has ‘slowed down’, Zelensky tells Starmer
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Ukraine uses British tanks on Russian soil in cross-border raid
Last September, a Challenger 2 was destroyed by enemy fire in southern Ukraine when Ukrainian forces were bogged down by Moscow’s defences. The Ministry of Defence has never placed restrictions on the use of conventional British weapons on Russian soil, as long as they are used against targets in accordance with international law. However, Storm...
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Zelensky: Let me use British missiles to end Putin’s rule
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former British tank commander, said Storm Shadow missiles would be able to strike “rail heads and key roads coming into Kursk, plus any airfields within 100 miles”. “Putin is rattled and this would show the West is fully committed to Ukraine, which has not been apparent hitherto,” he added. The position...