📰 'The world is awaiting the reaction from Russia after Ukraine rejected its ultimatum to give up the besieged city of Mariupol where around 300,000 people remain trapped'.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on European leaders on Monday to cease all trade with Russia.
He said: "Please do not sponsor the weapons of war of this country, of Russia. No euros for the occupiers" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇪🇺 The EU is set to agree a 5,000-strong rapid reaction force.
The new defence strategy is designed to increase the bloc's capacity to act amid the threat from Russia after Moscow invaded Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Russian troops open fire on protesters in occupied city of Kherson.
Video footage shared on social media shows protesters running from the city’s Freedom Square, where Kremlin forces are reported to have opened fire and thrown stun grenades at crowds telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️The Ukrainian defence minister has praised Britain for being among the first countries to provide the country "with serious weapons that have increased our defence capability" amid the war with Russia telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Russia has said it is abandoning peace talks with Japan, which were aimed at signing a formal World War II peace treaty, due to Tokyo's tough response on Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚨Two Associated Press reporters whose images of Mariupol alerted the world to the devastation being wreaked by Russian troops have fled the besieged city after learning they were on a Moscow hitlist telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴A 96-year-old Ukrainian who survived four Nazi concentration camps has been killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇧🇾Belarus may soon attack Ukraine and is preparing to consider allowing Russia to position nuclear weapons in the country, according to a senior Nato intelligence official telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Today's key developments:
🔴Kremlin rules out further peace talks until Zelensky does his ‘homework’
🔴Russian troops open fire on protesters
🔴Marina Ovsyannikova accused of being a British spy
🇺🇦The Ukrainian people would need to vote on any potential peace deals agreed with Russia in a referendum, President Zelensky has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️Moscow has made thinly veiled threats against Poland with an essay that stressed the two countries’ historic ties and attacked “imbecilic” Polish leaders as “vassals” of the US telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The Pentagon has accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine and said it would help to gather evidence of them.
The Pentagon also accused the Kremlin of conducting intentionally indiscriminate attacks as part of the conflict 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.