🚨The mayor of southern Ukraine's Melitopol was kidnapped on Friday by Russian soldiers occupying the city, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
"This is obviously a sign of weakness of the invaders"
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Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the mothers of Russian soldiers to prevent their sons being sent to war in Ukraine.
🗣️"Check where your son is. And if you have the slightest suspicion that your son could be sent to war against Ukraine, act immediately" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦Air raid sirens sounded across Kyiv early this morning, as the city prepared for a full-scale Russian assault.
British intelligence suggests that the bulk of Russian ground forces are now located around 25 kilometres from the centre of the capital telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Humanitarian corridors out of Ukrainian towns and villages, including from Mariupol, will be open on Saturday so civilians can evacuate, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚢A $700m superyacht being repaired in an Italian dry dock may belong to Vladimir Putin, according to US intelligence officials.
The ownership of the 459ft Scheherazade has come under close scrutiny since Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️The fight for Kyiv will be Russia's new "Stalingrad if they want to make it so", a Ukrainian MP has said.
🇷🇺The Russian Foreign Ministry said it will not negotiate with Nato, after the military alliance provided Ukraine with weapons.
“In the past few years the relationship between Nato and Russia through the fault of the alliance has fallen to zero” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
❌Russia has prepared a list of its own sanctions against Western individuals in response to the sanctions implemented on the country.
The list, which includes Western politicians and business owners, is ready and will soon be published, RIA News reports telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️Britain, France and Germany have warned Russia that its recent demand to have its trade guaranteed with Iran risks the collapse of an almost-completed nuclear deal
🇩🇪German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock confirmed Germany is working with international partners on an airlift for Ukrainian refugees from Moldova.
🔴EXCLUSIVE: Roman Abramovich has been disqualified by the Premier League from owning Chelsea after being sanctioned by the Government telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/…
The mayor of southern Ukraine's Melitopol was kidnapped on Friday by Russian soldiers occupying the city, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
🇺🇦Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that he is not witnessing bravery from Nato regarding the war in Ukraine.
He said he does not see a common consensus amongst member states to accept Ukraine into the military alliance telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴French president Emmanuel Macron has called on Russia to declare an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine during a phone call with President Putin telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦 Around 1,300 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion, President Zelensky has said.
At a briefing in Moscow, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, said Russian forces would treat convoys of weapons as legitimate military targets and attack them 👇
🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden has authorised $200 million to be spent on weapons and other assistance for Ukraine, the White House has announced.
The decision brings total US security aid provided to Ukraine over the past year to $1.2 billion telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺 The International Space Station could crash down on Western countries "led by the dogs of war" due to sanctions over the Ukraine invasion, Russia has warned.
🔴 Vladimir Putin showed no willingness to end the war with Ukraine during a call today with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Elysée has said.
🔴 Ukraine's intelligence service has accused Russia of killing seven people, including one child, after Russian forces fired at a convoy that was evacuating women and children from the village of Peremoha in the Kyiv region
🇷🇺 Russia blames Kyiv for 'catastrophic' humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
A senior Russian defence ministry official said that the situation continued to decline rapidly and blamed the actions of Ukrainian fighters, Russian news agency RIA reported telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦 Around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of Ukrainian cities today, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, almost twice the number who managed to get out yesterday
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.