The Telegraph Profile picture
The Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph Think ahead with the latest news, comment, analysis and video.

May 3, 2022, 17 tweets

🔴 Boris Johnson will address Ukraine’s Parliament today via live video link, the first world leader to address the Verkhovna Rada since the war began.

Keep up with the latest updates here 👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Ukraine morning briefing:
1⃣Ukraine 'past the point of negotiations'
2⃣Thousands transported from Ukraine to Russia
3⃣Mariupol civilian evacuations to continue
4⃣Johnson to address Ukraine's parliament
5⃣Patel faces legal action over Ukraine visas
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🔴Priti Patel could face legal action over delays in the visa system for Ukrainians fleeing the war.

The process has been criticised amid cases of families being unable to travel to the UK because of system delays
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇸🇰Slovakia will seek an exemption from any oil embargo of Russian oil agreed by the European Union in its next set of sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, Slovakia's Economy Ministry has said
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Pope Francis says he has requested a meeting in Moscow with Putin but has heard nothing back.

🗣️"We have not yet received a response and we are still insisting, though I fear that Putin cannot, and does not, want to have this meeting at this time"
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇺🇦Evacuees from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol "are on the way" toward government-controlled areas away from the most intense combat zones where Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting, says the WHO
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇷🇺Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the "unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations", the Kremlin has said
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🔴NEW: Boris Johnson invokes Churchill as he addresses Ukraine parliament

Keep up with the latest updates in our #Liveblog here👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🗣️"You have exploded the myth of Putin’s invincibility and you have written one of the most glorious chapters in military history and in the life of your country," Boris Johnson has said whilst addressing the Ukrainian parliament
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🔴Britain will donate 13 armoured vehicles to help evacuate civilians from besieged areas in eastern Ukraine, the government has said

🚨Russia appears to have dodged its first foreign debt default in a century after the Kremlin tapped domestic dollar reserves in a humiliating U-turn for Vladimir Putin

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…

🔴 The Russian defence ministry said that Russian troops have resumed shelling the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol after Ukrainian soldiers moved into fighting positions

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇺🇦 A UN humanitarian official said on Tuesday that it had successfully evacuated some 101 people from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, with most of the evacuees now in Zaporizhzhia, where they are receiving humanitarian assistance

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

💰 On paper, Britain has spent more money on aid compared to the Continent, but are the figures all that they seem?

@bienbutcher analyses the data 👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🗣️ Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, has accused Russia of using rape as a weapon of war, and labelled Vladimir Putin “the main war criminal of the 21st century”

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Here is your Ukraine-Russia evening briefing: 👇

1⃣ Russia launches offensive on Azovstal plant.
2⃣ Boris Johnson addresses Ukraine's parliament.
3⃣ Russian troops forced to retreat from Kharkiv

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron told Vladimir Putin to put an end "to this devastating aggression" in Ukraine during their telephone conversation on Tuesday, his office said

Read the latest on our liveblog ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.

A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.

Keep scrolling