Senior Whitehall sources said that the Government was concerned and that there was "twitchiness" and "anxiety" among officials.
➡️The Kremlin claimed it had scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a British spy plane operating in the Black Sea region telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Russian forces, including elite units, are gathering near the Ukraine border, with some deployed covertly at night.
The invasion assessments are believed to be based on US intelligence not yet shared with Europe, multiple sources told Bloomberg telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️US officials warned Moscow against making a "serious mistake" amid the build-up of troops.
The Kremlin has denied it is an aggressor and has accused the US and its Nato allies of provocation telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Russia's defence ministry claimed the incident involving a British plane was part of a wider uptick in military activity by the US and its allies.
Moscow said a British Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance plane was trying to get close to Crimea telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦Ukraine's defence ministry has said about 90,000 Russian troops are stationed not far from the border.
It has said units of the Russian 41st army have remained in Yelnya, 160 miles north of the Ukraine frontier telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️Tony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, said: "We don't have clarity into Moscow's intentions, but we do know its playbook.
"Our concern is that Russia may make the serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Vladimir Putin has also been accused of orchestrating a migration crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland to destabilise Europe, using Belarus as a proxy to “rebuild the Russian empire” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.