⚠️Environment agencies have issued hundreds of alerts for flooding across the UK, including two rare "severe" warnings where rainfall could also pose a "danger to life" for communities along the River Mersey in Greater Manchester
🗣️"With the wind direction expected to change it is very likely that more trees will come down during Storm Franklin, having been weakened over the last two days" telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2…
🔴The Shropshire village of Ironbridge is being evacuated as rising floodwaters pose a "significant risk to life" with #StormFranklin continuing to lash the UK
In the UK, almost 2,000 miles away from the action, it’s easy to feel complacent about how war could affect our lives.
But experts say that war between Russia and Ukraine will change everyday life in the UK in ways most people have not yet fully understood
⚫️Cyber warfare attacks
💻If Russia invades Ukraine, Western powers are unlikely to deploy hard military power. Instead, Britain and the US would turn to their world-leading cyber-capabilities
🗣️“I accept my life has limitations but it feels as if nobody has to consider other people in this move to lift all restrictions,” says Diana Henry, The Telegraph’s cookery writer
🔴Two things were clear by the end of Monday's session of the Russian security council:
Vladimir Putin would recognise the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as independent states, and he would send regular Russian troops to defend them
❓But what will Russia do next?
The best case is that Vladimir Putin is continuing his game of incremental screw tightening and the Russian army will halt at the current line of contact, writes our Senior Foreign Correspondent @RolandOliphant
🗣️The invasion of Ukraine "has begun", Sajid Javid has said this morning.
Russian tanks entered the eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk last night under Vladimir Putin's orders telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇸White House officials have struggled to say whether Biden believes Russia sending "peacekeeping" forces into the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk constitutes an "invasion."
The Russian president ordered the army across the border to "maintain peace", after he recognised the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in a televised address to the nation #RussiaUkraineCrisis
In an ominous speech that lasted almost an hour, Mr Putin accused the Ukrainian government of "genocide" and said it was sure to seek nuclear weapons with the assistance of the West