🔴Zelensky has said that Europe acted "a little too late" to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, claiming countries should have sanctioned Moscow and blocked the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline earlier
🔴Russian forces fired two missiles late on Thursday at a Ukrainian military unit on the outskirts of Dnipro, regional emergency services said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇬🇧Britain will double its troops in Eastern Europe and send a new deployment to Bulgaria, after Nato leaders on Thursday agreed to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank against Russian aggression.
Ukraine morning briefing:
1⃣Two missile strikes hit Ukrainian military unit
2⃣Ukraine is reoccupying defensive positions
3⃣Hundreds of thousands 'forcibly removed' to Russia
4⃣Gas shipments to help wean Europe off Russian energy telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Russian shelling hit a clinic that was acting as a centre for humanitarian aid in the eastern city of Kharkiv, killing four people, the regional police has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
➡️The US and EU announced a task force Friday aimed at reducing Europe's reliance on Russian fossil fuels in the face of Moscow's war on Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Through social media, The Telegraph contacted some of the remaining Mariupol residents who have either left in recent days or remain trapped.
One claimed they had been forced to eat a stray dog to stave off hunger
🔴The United States has "no intention" of using chemical weapons under any circumstance even if Russia uses such weapons in Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Ukraine lunchtime briefing:
1⃣Military chaplain killed in Russia by Ukrainian rocket
2⃣Shelling of Chernobyl nuclear plant staff sparks UN concern
3⃣‘At least 300’ dead in theatre bombing
4⃣Russian forces pushed more than 20 miles away from Kyiv telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴In a video statement, presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said Ukraine forces had "killed commander of the 49th Russian Southern District Army, General Yakov Ryazantsev, in a strike on Chornobayivka near Kherson" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Putin has appeared to draw comparisons between JK Rowling and his country, accusing the West of “progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia”
🔴Polish President Andrzej Duda will be late meeting Biden this afternoon, because the plane transporting him to the south-east of the country had to turn back and make an emergency landing in Warsaw telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been cut off by Russian forces, with its besieged population now enduring what local officials describe as a “humanitarian catastrophe” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️Russia will now focus its main war effort on the "complete liberation" of the eastern Donbas region, the chief of the Russian army has said
📴 Apple has suspended its Apply Pay service for Russia's Mir card payment system, closing a loophole that had allowed Russians to keep using the digital payment service.
A spokesperson for the platform said: "After carefully considering our options and the current circumstances, we have come to the difficult decision to fully suspend our service in Russia"
🔴 The US sees Russia focusing on eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, rather than the capital Kyiv, in what could be an effort to cut off Ukrainian forces in the area from the rest of the country telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 NEW: Kremlin to focus on 'complete liberation' of Donbas region
🔴 Ukrainian forces have launched a counter-offensive in Kherson, the only major city currently under the control of Russian troops, making it once again "contested", a senior US defence official has said
🔴 Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that condemns people who publish "fake" information about Russia's military operations abroad to face jail time of up to 15 years telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣 Russia uses "old methods of warfare", the head of Ukraine's defence intelligence agency said Friday.
"The Ukrainian army has shown that the Russian army as the second army in the world is a big myth, and it's just a medieval concentration of manpower"
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!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @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.