🔴 Russia is succeeding in sowing panic in Ukraine, a top security official said, as the Ukrainian president called for calm amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West
"The bloodshed would be comparable to the first war in Checnhya or Bosnia or any other conflict Europe has endured since 1945. No one would gain from such a catastrophe," Mr Johnson said
🔴Keir Starmer has called the military buildup an "attempt by President Putin to turn back the cloak and reestablish Russian dominance over eastern Europe"
🔴Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: "For too long the implicit message to Moscow has been that President Putin can do what he likes and the West will do little to respond"
🔴Russian-backed saboteurs have been arrested, according to Ukraine, after plotting attacks along the eastern border aimed at “destabilising” the country
Watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson give a statement to MPs on Ukraine in the House of Commons below 👇
🇫🇷Emmanuel Macron has told a press conference in Berlin that he plans to hold phone talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️Britain will deploy troops to protect its allies in Europe if Russia invades Ukraine, Boris Johnson has said telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🇺🇦Ukraine’s president has warned that Kharkiv could be the first city to be invaded by Putin’s forces.
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.