🔴Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged his nation to stay strong as it suffers "painful losses" in the key cities of Severodonetsk and Kharkiv amid the fight for territory.
🔴Some 500 civilians believed to be trapped alongside soldiers inside Azot, a chemical factory in Severodonetsk, are preparing to flee the city through a possible humanitarian corridor this morning telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴NEW:Ukrainian troops close in on Kherson after counter-attacks
🔴Ukraine pleaded with Western governments to decide quickly on sending heavy weapons to shore up its faltering defences, as Russia said it would evacuate civilians from a frontline chemical plant
🇬🇧🇺🇦 Britain will soon deliver multiple-launch rocket systems to Ukraine in response to its request for arms to repel the Russian invasion, Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, said today
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The European Union's executive is expected to propose on Friday that Ukraine become a formal candidate for membership of the bloc, diplomats and officials say, a significant political gesture to the country as it resists Russia's invasion.
🇺🇸 The U.S. is expected to announce Wednesday that it will send about $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began, in a effort to help stall Russia's progress in the Donbas
🚨 BREAKING: Two former US servicemen have been captured during fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine, the Telegraph has been told. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
The pair were taken prisoner during a fierce battle outside the north-east city of Kharkiv last week, according to comrades who were fighting alongside them
🇺🇸 Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, had been serving as volunteers with a regular Ukrainian army unit. They are believed to be the first US servicemen to end up as Russian prisoners of war
The European Court of Human Rights issued an interim measure to stop an Iraqi asylum seeker being flown to Rwanda on Tuesday
➡️The ECHR told the Government that the man, named only as KN, should not be removed until three weeks after the final domestic court decision in a judicial review into his deportation
🔴 Rwanda deportation flight blocked by European judges
Asylum seeker wins injunction to remove him from plane, just hours after UK court had rejected his plea, with others expected to follow suit ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
European human rights judges made an 11th-hour intervention on Tuesday night to block the deportation of the first migrants to Rwanda
🗣️ The European Court of Human Rights granted an urgent injunction to one of the asylum seekers to remove him from the flight, just hours after the UK Supreme Court had rejected his plea
Marlene Anderson breaks down in tears as she remembers watching Grenfell Tower burning.
Ray ‘Moses’ Bernard, her father, died of suffocation and cyanide poisoning killed by the acrid smoke. When his body was recovered, “his remains were no more than 30 per cent of who he was”
🗣️ On the night of the blaze, the London Fire Brigade operated a ‘stay put’ policy ordering anybody phoning 999 to remain in their flats and await rescue. Those who obeyed, died