🔴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…
🔴Russian invasion 'of Ukraine very highly likely', says James Cleverly
🔴Dmitry Polyanskiy, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, has accused the West of "warmongering" by creating an "artificial crisis" in Ukraine
🔴 Vladimir Putin may be preparing a cyber assault on British interests, the Home Secretary and GCHQ warned as they urged companies and public services to take "pre-emptive measures" to defend themselves against an attack
🔴 While criminals have used deception and disguise for centuries, the grifters who currently dominate our TV schedules represent a curiously modern phenomenon.
To scam effectively requires patience, preparation, luck and no small amount of confidence
💻 But since the web has blurred societal boundaries and opened doors to anybody with a broadband connection, today’s con artists have it easy.
The method for initial communications and the personal details of potential victims are right there, at the touch of a button
🏰 It was pitched as a new “castle in the cluster” for London’s Canary Wharf and would have created 424 homes with a public park at its base.
⚠️ Yet the Cuba Street tower hid what might seem a glaring omission for a 174-metre building: a second escape stair
Plans for new high-rises like the Cuba Street development have reopened a debate about the safety of the next generation of tower blocks, nearly five years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire telegraph.co.uk/art/architectu…