Brexit has allowed Britain to respond quickly to Russian aggression and claim a leadership role on aid to Ukraine, Poland’s foreign minister has told The Telegraph. Radoslaw Sikorski said that the UK could move faster than EU member states. It did not have to reach consensus in a 27-member bloc on issues such as sanctions...
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Watch: British Army leaves US troops trailing in river crossing race
In front of Army chiefs, hundreds of vehicles crossed the rigs and two other crossings yesterday as the culmination of Exercise Immediate Response, part of the wider Steadfast Defender operation, a Nato war game and the largest deployment to Europe in 40 years. The two-week exercise involving British, Polish and US armies included nearly 2,400...
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Out of the slaughterhouse, into the ‘meatgrinder’ for Ukraine’s recruits
In such an environment, it is no surprise that today’s Ukrainian army now also has psychologists as well as old-school chaplains. “A lot of people have just seen too many dead or injured,” says Julia (not her real name), 28, the 22nd’s resident shrink, who operates from a practice in an abandoned home. “It’s especially...
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Ukraine-Russia war live: Russia takes 100-square-miles of Ukrainian territory in a week
China-Russia trade has boomed since the Ukraine invasion and hit $240 billion in 2023, according to Chinese customs figures. Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, has rebuffed Western criticism of his country’s ties with Moscow, enjoying cheap Russian energy imports and access to vast natural resources, including steady gas shipments via the Power of Siberia pipeline....
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Iran threatens Britain for defending Israel in April attack
Tehran’s attack came in retaliation after a suspected Israeli strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate on April 1 killed seven high-ranking members of the IRGC. They were with members of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian terror group, at the compound when the attack occurred, sources with knowledge of the meeting told The Telegraph. As soon as Iran...
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Watch: Moment armed gunmen ambush prison van and free ‘France’s most wanted man’
French justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti has just confirmed that two officers have died and three others are seriously injured – two in a critical condition. Earlier local police had said three officers had died. “Our country is in mourning,” said the minister. “This morning, during a judicial extraction between the Evreux judicial court and Rouen prison,...
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Chinese and Hong Kong students at British universities silenced by Beijing
Hong Kong and Chinese students at British universities are being secretly photographed and filmed as part of a global pattern of harassment and intimidation by Beijing, according to Amnesty International. In a new 63-page report released by the human rights group on Monday, students describe being followed at protests in their host cities, with many...
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Russia finds massive oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory
Russia has reportedly discovered billions of barrels worth of oil and gas reserves in the British Antarctic territory, prompting fears it could lead to drilling in the protected region. The vast reserves equate to around 10 times the entire North Sea’s oil production for the last half century. According to documents discussed in Parliament last...
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British paratroopers practise high readiness with allies in Estonia
One of the hallmarks of a gold-standard drop, achieved on Saturday, is the ability to drop groups of soldiers, referred to as “sticks”, from both port and starboard doors simultaneously. However, unlike this drill, part of Nato’s massive Swift Response exercise, the transport aircraft would be likely to approach a real battle wingtip to wingtip,...
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Northern Lights UK: Britons gaze up in wonder as aurora borealis illuminates the world
Britons stayed up all night to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights as a massive solar storm brought a beautiful aurora to the skies above the UK. In rare and spectacular sightings on Friday night, the aurora was spotted across the country, from Whitley Bay in the North East to as far south as...