Britain will provide an extra £1.3 billion in military support to Ukraine in another escalation of assistance for Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces trying to repel the Russian invasion
Ukraine morning briefing:
1⃣Putin 'doubling down' but no sign of nuclear strike, says CIA head
2⃣Wounded and medics next for evacuation, says Zelensky
3⃣Nearly 200 heritage sites destroyed or damaged
4⃣Britain pledges £1.3bn in military support and aid telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴From her home in the capital, ambassador Melinda Simmons talks Russian mistakes, Zelensky’s rock star status and Putin’s nuclear distraction.
🔴US first lady Jill Biden met with Ukrainian refugees in eastern Slovakia on Sunday, the last day of her tour of Romania and Slovakia to visit US servicemen deployed there and women and children who fled Russia's invasion of Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴NEW: Liz Truss 'horrified' by school bombing that 'deliberately targeted' Ukrainian civilians
🗣️Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that "evil has returned" to Europe, comparing Russia's invasion to Nazi Germany during an address commemorating World War II
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If Putin's February invasion of Ukraine had gone as planned, he would have been reviewing today's Victory Day parade on Kyiv's Independence Square
➡️Instead, his troops were marching through Red Square in Moscow with a fraction of the hardware they usually display
Putin was always going to compare his current war in Ukraine with the Second World War in a bid to rally the country and the army to his invasion, writes @RolandOliphant
But he did not, as some predicted, claim "mission accomplished"
🔴 Russia is holding a large-scale military parade through Moscow to mark Victory Day, with Ukraine's military warning that there is a "high probability of missile strikes" to mark the occasion
🏠 Katie Herbert is trying to buy a family home in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and has found herself out-bid at every turn.
“The market is mad here,” she says. “One estate agent told me a good house will sell in hours”
💷 The 32-year old mother of one has a smaller deposit than she would like.
She and her husband had a flat, but it sold for a loss because of the cladding crisis - and high rents mean it is hard to save enough to keep up with rising prices
🗣️ Gove said: “Even as interest rates are in the position that they are, there are people who are perfectly capable of servicing a mortgage who are paying more in rent than they would for their mortgage.”
“That is wrong”
🏠 Gove outlined plans designed to increase the supply of homes, which are due to form part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.
The plan is one of the flagship pieces of legislation expected to be announced in next week’s Queen’s Speech