Ukraine morning briefing:
1⃣Ukraine 'past the point of negotiations'
2⃣Thousands transported from Ukraine to Russia
3⃣Mariupol civilian evacuations to continue
4⃣Johnson to address Ukraine's parliament
5⃣Patel faces legal action over Ukraine visas telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Priti Patel could face legal action over delays in the visa system for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
The process has been criticised amid cases of families being unable to travel to the UK because of system delays telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇸🇰Slovakia will seek an exemption from any oil embargo of Russian oil agreed by the European Union in its next set of sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, Slovakia's Economy Ministry has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Pope Francis says he has requested a meeting in Moscow with Putin but has heard nothing back.
🗣️"We have not yet received a response and we are still insisting, though I fear that Putin cannot, and does not, want to have this meeting at this time" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦Evacuees from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol "are on the way" toward government-controlled areas away from the most intense combat zones where Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting, says the WHO telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the "unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations", the Kremlin has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴NEW: Boris Johnson invokes Churchill as he addresses Ukraine parliament
🗣️"You have exploded the myth of Putin’s invincibility and you have written one of the most glorious chapters in military history and in the life of your country," Boris Johnson has said whilst addressing the Ukrainian parliament telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Britain will donate 13 armoured vehicles to help evacuate civilians from besieged areas in eastern Ukraine, the government has said
🚨Russia appears to have dodged its first foreign debt default in a century after the Kremlin tapped domestic dollar reserves in a humiliating U-turn for Vladimir Putin
🔴 The Russian defence ministry said that Russian troops have resumed shelling the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol after Ukrainian soldiers moved into fighting positions
🇺🇦 A UN humanitarian official said on Tuesday that it had successfully evacuated some 101 people from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, with most of the evacuees now in Zaporizhzhia, where they are receiving humanitarian assistance
🗣️ Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, has accused Russia of using rape as a weapon of war, and labelled Vladimir Putin “the main war criminal of the 21st century”
🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron told Vladimir Putin to put an end "to this devastating aggression" in Ukraine during their telephone conversation on Tuesday, his office said
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.