🔴Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday as tensions spike in the crisis over Ukraine, the Kremlin said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Russia's thinking 'may cost it a prosperous future', says Ursula von der Leyen
🔴Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the Boris Johnson said: “This is a very dangerous moment in our history. We stand on the brink of what could be a war in Europe.”
🔴Ukraine's military has said that mercenaries had arrived in separatist-held eastern Ukraine to stage provocations in collaboration with Russia's special services
🔴Germany's flag carrier Lufthansa announced it is suspending flights to and from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Odessa from Monday until the end of February telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴A dozen mortar shells fell within a few hundred metres of Ukraine's interior minister on Saturday as he met journalists on a tour of the frontline with Russian-backed rebels telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that his country was holding back an assault on the whole of Europe telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Liz Truss: invasion could come as soon as next week.
In the "worst-case scenario'" Russia could invade Ukraine as early as next week, Liz Truss told the Munich Security Conference telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The current crisis in Ukraine is not just an issue for Europe, but an issue for the world, Liz Truss has said.
"That is why our partners around the world are all supporting Ukraine and supporting us in the steps we are taking" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Ukraine reports two soldiers killed in separatists shelling.
The Ukrainian military said two soldiers were killed and four wounded in shelling by pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine on Saturday
🔴 France has urged its citizens to leave the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk without delay due to a rise in tensions telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him and seek a resolution to the crisis telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations said on Saturday they saw no evidence that Russia is reducing military activity near Ukraine's borders and remain "gravely concerned" about the situation telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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!
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✍️ @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.