🔴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
🔴Boris Johnson has said that Vladimir Putin might not be thinking logically so the threat of sanctions may not be enough to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine
🔴Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron are currently speaking on the phone, in a last-ditch effort to avoid an escalation, according to the Elysee Palace
🔴Hundreds of artillery shells have exploded along the contact line between Ukrainian soldiers and Russia-backed separatists, and thousands of people evacuated eastern Ukraine, further increasing fears that the volatile region could see a Russian invasion telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Kamala Harris has told the Munich security conference that she believes "Putin has made his decision"
🔴 The United States and Britain would cut off Russian companies' access to U.S. dollars and British pounds if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson said today
🔴Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Foreign Minister , said today that that it was time for the West to implement at least part of the sanctions it has prepared against Russia
🔴 The US and its Nato allies have repeatedly warned that Russia will pay a high price for any invasion - but they have sometimes struggled to present a united front
🔴 Volodymyr Zelensky has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern part of the country, where clashes between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces intensified in recent days
🔴The Netherlands Foreign Ministry has said today that it will move its embassy functions in Ukraine from Kyiv to Lviv temporarily due to safety considerations
🔴 Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin agreed on the need to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis in a phone call today, the Elysee palace said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 The West should start implementing sanctions against Russia now as fears over an imminent invasion mount, Ukraine's foreign minister has said.
"There are all the grounds to implement at least a part of sanctions prepared against Russia", said Dmytro Kuleba
🔴 Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides - in Crimea to the south, along the Russian border to the east, and in Belarus to the north - giving it various options for attack
🔴 Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin disagreed in their phone call today over who was responsible for tensions in eastern Ukraine, a French presidential adviser said.
He added the two agreed that a three-way meeting of OSCE, Ukraine, and Russia representatives be held on Monday
🔴Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Defence Secretary, warned about "enormous casualties" if Russia were to deploy the tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery and rocket forces it has massed on the Ukraine border telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 NEW: Vladimir Putin agrees to try to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine in last-ditch talks with Emmanuel Macron telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 US has defended its decision to wait on Russia sanctions despite Zelensky plea.
The Biden administration refused to unleash sanctions on Russia, despite mounting criticism from Kyiv and domestic rivals telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
📈 The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing food prices to fluctuate, and risks pushing families across the Middle East and North Africa into severe hunger 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!
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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.