🔴 Some Russian soldiers in Ukraine have refused to carry out orders, sabotaged their equipment and accidentally shot down one of their own aircraft, new intelligence has shown.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba could meet within two weeks for talks, Turkey said today after hosting negotiators from both sides
⚠️ Russian troops moving away from Chernobyl nuclear site.
However, areas around Kyiv are likely to see heavy fighting in the coming days, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry has warned telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 First major convoy of buses heads to Mariupol to evacuate civilians.
The Ukrainian government is sending 45 buses to evacuate civilians from the besieged port, after the Russian defence ministry announced a ceasefire. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚫 The British Government has made 14 additions to its list of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Among those sanctioned today were senior figures from media outlets including RT's managing director Alexey Nikolov and Sputnik's Editor-in-Chief telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Vladimir Putin made the “insane” decision not to tell members of Russia’s armed forces that they would be invading Ukraine, the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇱🇻Latvia's parliament has voted to ban public displays of the letter "Z," saying it was a symbol that was used to glorify the Russian invasion of Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Today's latest developments:
🔴Putin says EU gas buyers need rouble accounts
🔴Liz Truss says China must not support Russia in Ukraine
📺Ukraina 24 is now broadcast on Britain's biggest free-to-air television service to ensure refugees reaching the UK can access impartial news in their own language telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
💬“Equipment gets destroyed. It takes hours, days, to put things back in operation”
🇬🇧Britain will send longer-range artillery and weapons to help Ukraine launch counter-attacks against retreating Russians telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/3…
🗣️Vladimir Putin may have put advisors “under house arrest”, Joe Biden has said, adding that the Russian president has become “self-isolated” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️Russians have not given enough time for a huge convoy to rescue thousands of people from Mariupol, the French have warned telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
It is unclear whether Russia’s 40-mile-long convoy of military vehicles to Kyiv still exists, the Pentagon has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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🟢Thousands more onshore wind turbines could be built in the UK, as officials work up plans to treble capacity as part of the Government’s new energy strategy.
🔴Vladimir Putin took a cancer specialist with him on regular trips away from Moscow, according to a new investigation that raises further questions about his health.
🇷🇺The Russian president, the report says, is frequently visited by doctors in the resort city of Sochi and keeps a thyroid specialist at his side
➡️The specialist, Yevgeny Selivanov, of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, has allegedly flown to Sochi with the president 35 times, according to documents purporting to show hotel bills
📽 The viral video dubbed 'Russian Warship, Go F--- yourself' took home the prize for Best Picture.
Below, Roman Gribov, who first uttered the now-popular phrase, receives an actual award from the head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration
📹 Ukrainian tractors were named the best supporting actor, after having gained online fame for seizing abandoned Russian tanks telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 British military intelligence said on Friday Ukrainian forces have retaken the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka, located along main supply routes between Chernihiv and Kyiv
The Duke of York and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson both received “suspicious” payments on the orders of former Goldman Sachs banker Selman Turk as part of an international £40 million fraud, it is alleged
The payments included a £750,000 “gift” paid to the Duke by 76-year-old Turkish millionairess Nebahat Evyap Işbilen, who was told that she was paying for help with a passport so she could flee political persecution in her homeland telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…