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A unit of 5,000 Russian fighters were practically destroyed in the latest attempt to forcefully take the area of Vuhledar, Donetsk, in another humiliating defeat for Putin

It comes ahead of an important meeting of NATO defence ministers today and tomorrow in Brussels as officials work to co-ordinate supplying more weapons to Ukraine, and to discuss the threat posed by spy balloons

'War profits should not be channelled into the wage packets of bosses already on huge money when householders and businesses are being fleeced in a broken energy market'

It is believed Wagner Group mercenaries - many of them convicted criminals - will be replaced by regular soldiers among as many as 300,000 new troops heading to war

Major-General Apti Alaudinov, 50, a pal of Chechnyan warlord Ramzan Kadyrov and commander of the region's soldiers in Ukraine, received a letter saturated with an unknown deadly toxin

David Ballantyne Smith collected highly sensitive secrets while working as a security guard in the British Embassy in Berlin and sold them to Russia for large amounts of money

Figures released by the Ukrainian general staff on Russian casualties show 824 Russian soldiers dying per day in February - four times the rate reported over June and July of last year

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg will tell a crunch gathering in Brussels tomorrow that Russian president Vladimir Putin is prepared to take heavy losses in a new assault on Ukraine.

Marina Ovsyannikova describes the ordeal of fleeing Moscow, having to continually swap cars to cover her trail and crossing multiple borders of countries she said she cannot disclose, to get to France

The Russian warmonger will give an address to the country's federal assembly on February 21 "on the current situation", according to a Kremlin spokesman

The head of the Wagner private army, which is fighting for the Kremlin against Ukraine, said it may take two years for Russia to complete their ultimate war goals

Ministry of Defence sources suggest that Britain's military is not able to spare the 5,000 personnel needed to comprise a 'rapid-reaction force' tasked with repelling any potential Russian advance on NATO territory

After Ukrainian President Zelensky's plea to Britain for warplanes to fight the Russian invasion, columnist Mark Steel warns that the Tory Government's track record suggests he shouldn't expect much

A Russian intelligence source close to the Kremlin has suggested Moscow will "intensify undercover work with secret informants" across the UK, it has been claimed

Keir Mudie says Rishi Sunak is supporting Ukraine as it continues to fight Russia, as well as Turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake - but the economic situation in the UK is still not great

A former spy chief has insisted Vladimir Putin is not unwell or dead, but that he does often use body doubles when on visits, over assassination fears

Russia has launched a fresh offensive on Ukraine ahead of the first anniversary of the invasion on February 24, launching 71 cruise missiles and 35 S-300 missiles since Thursday

The Ukrainian president pleaded with Rishi Sunak to urgently send fighter jets during a surprise visit to the UK yesterday. Volodymyr Zelensk visited Brussels today where he appealed to EU leaders to provide aircraft

The terrifying warning was made by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who now lives in Britain after falling foul of Putin. In 2001 he founded Open Russia, an organisation advocating democracy and human rights

Russia President Vladimir Putin is testing his hypersonic Satan-2 apocalypse missile and officials in remote districts have been warned to be ready for a test launch between February 15 and 25

The Russian Embassy in London issued a statement saying there would be 'military and political ramifications for the European continent and the entire globe' if the UK provides warplane

The British Government faces problems with President Zelensky's demands for fighter jets after giving him Challenger tanks in the fight against Vladimir Putin

In a rousing speech to a packed Westminster Hall in London, Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces will free Ukraine - but asked for Britain's help in his cause against Putin

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that without sophisticated fighter jets and long-range missiles to defend the skies, the war risks entering a long period of "stagnation"

Russian internet trolls are targeting social media posts - Western officials are monitoring other countries where the dangerous messages are gaining more interest