🔴Britain will reportedly soon send armoured missile launchers to Ukraine after Russia started its full-scale offensive to take control of the country's east
🔴Street battles have broken out in the eastern town of Kreminna, just a day after it was captured by the Russians as they focus on taking full control of the Donbas region
🔴Russia has reportedly called on Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries to leave the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol by midday Russian time (0900 GMT).
"All who lay down their arms are guaranteed to remain alive," the defence ministry said
🔴Russian-backed separatists are dropping "bunker-busting bombs" as they storm the last remaining holdout of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, according to reports
🔴NEW: Russian troops appear to have seized control of the eastern city of Kreminna, the first in Russia's new offensive to take control of the Donbas region
🔴The aim of Russia's new military offensive in east Ukraine is to grab land, establish an overground link between territories in the east and Crimea and crush Ukraine's armed forces, Ukraine's defence ministry has said
💷It’s one of the most difficult conversations to have – which may be why asking your boss for a pay rise is something more than half of us have never done, according to one survey
❓But as the cost of living continues to soar, having that awkward conversation with your manager may become unavoidable.
✍️ 'It hasn’t been easy to rake over what happened, but I believe this is an important issue, and one that needs to be brought out into the open,' writes @PHShriver.
'The short version of this story is that I had an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach, which began when I was 17 and lasted a little over five years' telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/04…
'My main motivation is to let people know this still goes on - a lot.'
'I believe abusive coaching relationships are alarmingly common in sport as a whole. It’s not only women who suffer from abusive coaching relationships, but they make up the majority' telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/04…
🇩🇪Germany has refused to join an international coalition in sending heavy weaponry to Ukraine as the country entered a new phase of the war against Russia 🧵👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, said that while Germany was willing to give financial aid, he was not prepared to export tanks and armoured personnel carriers to Kyiv
💬Mr Scholz said Germany would not "go it alone" on weapons, and that any decisions would be made in close cooperation with "friends and allies"
💸@MartinSLewis argues that consumers could save 30% on their weekly shop every year “without noticing the difference”, if we simply opted for the slightly cheaper option when filling our trolleys
👩💻Ministers have been ordered to send their civil servants back to the office after it emerged that up to three-quarters of staff are still working from home
✍️Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for government efficiency, has written to all secretaries of state to say they must send a "clear message" to officials about ending the work from home culture and urge them to ensure that offices are at "full capacity"
🏢On Monday night, Whitehall sources accused civil servants who refused to return to the office of failing to "pull their weight", adding that the Covid pandemic could no longer be used as an excuse for staying away from the workplace