Ukraine morning briefing:
1⃣Russian soldier's phone-call intercepted: 'We are killing civilians and children'
2⃣Russia gives fighters in Mariupol fresh ultimatum
3⃣Chernobyl communications finally restored
4⃣IMF sees no 'bounce back' in Russian economy telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
➡️European Council chief Charles Michel has arrived in Kyiv today to represent EU member states telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Families hiding underground in besieged Mariupol claimed on Tuesday that the lack of sunlight was making their children ill, as Russian forces were accused of using “bunker-buster” bombs.
🔴More than five million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, the UN said today, in Europe's fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II
🔴Over a million Ukrainians have returned to their country since Russia launched its devastating invasion at the end of February, a spokesman for Kyiv's border force said today telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️A Russian ultimatum for Ukrainian troops in Mariupol to surrender or die expired on Wednesday afternoon with no mass capitulation...
But a commander of a unit holding out in the city warned that his forces could survive just days or hours telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Russia has successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile that will make the Kremlin’s enemies "think twice" before attacking Moscow, Vladimir Putin has warned telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴A street in Ukraine has been named after Boris Johnson after he was hailed for leading the international response to the Russian invasion 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!
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.