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Oct 29, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
🔴Britain is ‘exposed’ to Russian missile attacks

A former Air Marshal has warned that London needs air defences to prevent attacks

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2… Britain is ‘exposed’ to Russian missile attacks Edward Stringer, a former commander, has warned of the danger.

🗣Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had reminded the West that “nuclear weapons did not disappear at the end of the Cold War”
Oct 29, 2022 17 tweets 7 min read
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… 🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported

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Oct 28, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
🇺🇦 Kyiv mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko urges allies to speed up aid efforts as his ravaged city prepares for its biggest fight yet – against the harsh winter

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… 🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
Oct 28, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
🚨 Nancy Pelosi's husband was "violently assaulted" early this morning after someone broke into their San Francisco home.

The assailant has been arrested and Paul Pelosi is in hospital recovering, Ms Pelosi's spokesperson confirmed

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Mr Pelosi was reportedly attacked with a hammer, law enforcement sources told CNN
Oct 28, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
US to send hi-tech nuclear weapons to Nato bases amid rising tensions with Russia

Deployment of B61-12 tactical bombs to Europe comes after Moscow held military exercises showcasing its own ballistic capabilities

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… The B-2 Spirit stealth bomb... 🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow The B-2 Spirit stealth bomb...
Oct 27, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
🔴Ukraine's football hooligans bury the hatchet to fight Russia on the front lines

'Ultra' fans have put aside old enmities to join together on the front line against a common foe

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.

Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Maugly and Ksan are former ...
Oct 27, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
🔴 Ban on Chinese institutes at UK universities drawn up after Rishi Sunak's pledge to scrap them

The Prime Minister labelled China the 'largest threat to Britain and the world’s security and prosperity this century'

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2… Ban on Chinese institutes at UK universities drawn up after ❌ A ban on controversial Confucius Institutes at British universities is being rapidly drawn up by officials to honour Rishi Sunak’s election campaign pledge, The Telegraph understands
Oct 27, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
Boris Johnson has set up an office in Westminster from which he hopes to start a foundation to assist war-torn Ukraine

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Thread 🧵⤵️  Boris Johnson and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy w 🇺🇦Boris Johnson is considering setting up a new organisation to help support Ukraine and rebuild the war-torn country as he seeks to build a new career on the international stage, The Telegraph can disclose
Oct 27, 2022 15 tweets 8 min read
🔴Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there would be good news from the front line but gave no details.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ➡️Estonia has called on new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to commit to raising British defence spending.

Mr Sunak has not matched a pledge by his predecessor Liz Truss to boost defence spending from 2% to 3% of GDP by 2030
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Rishi Sunak
Oct 26, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
🔴 'Putin's goddaughter' flees Russia hours before agents swoop to arrest her

Ksenia Sobchak had her luxury Moscow mansion searched after her YouTube videos criticised war

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… A glamorous Russian socialite whose father was Vladimir Putin's mentor reportedly fled the country on Wednesday morning, just hours before police raided her luxury mansion after she mildly criticised the Ukraine war
Oct 26, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
🔴US President Joe Biden said Russia would be making an "incredibly serious mistake" if it used tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… 'Serious mistake' if Russia... 🔴Russian forces are digging in for the "heaviest of battles" in the strategic southern region of Kherson, a senior Ukrainian official said.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… A view of damaged building ...
Oct 25, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
🔴 'World's dirtiest man' dies at 94 shortly after taking a bath

Iranian Amou Haji had for decades avoided eating fresh food and showering over fears of getting sick

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Amou Haji An Iranian man nicknamed the "dirtiest man in the world" for living in filth and not washing for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported on Tuesday
Oct 25, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
Giorgia Meloni needs to stick close to the EU to keep receiving the money Rome needs ✍️

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@giuliabottaro_ reports 🧵⤵️ Image Italy is among the EU economies most reliant on Russian gas and faces one of the deepest recessions as a result.

Before the invasion of Ukraine, 40pc of the country’s supply was imported from Russia Image
Oct 21, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
America's military must be ready to respond to a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan that could come before the end of this year, the head of the US Navy has said

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of US naval operations, is the latest senior US military official to indicate heightened alarm over Beijing's intentions towards the island
Oct 21, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
🔴President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of planting mines at a hydroelectric dam in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, which is under the control of Moscow's forces.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… 🔴Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and discussed in detail Kyiv's request for air and missile defence systems and technology

Oct 20, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
🔴Russia is considering withdrawing troops and equipment over the Dnipro river despite all permanent bridges being damaged, said the UK Ministry of Defence.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Russia 'planning major withdrawal over Dnipro River' 🔴 Ukraine has so far shot down a total of 233 Iranian-made drones used by Russia, including 21 on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelensky said
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it fired on buildi
Oct 19, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
Despite a strict media blackout, @Telegraph was one of the first Western media to see new frontlines in the south and gain access to the freshly liberated territory around Kherson

@MrOlmos reports ⬇️

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Operational details are a closely guarded secret as soldiers continue to move between frontline villages on fresh paths you will not see on Google Maps. They stop their vehicles and park in the shade, never out in the open
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Oct 19, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
🔴 The battle for Kherson is to begin "in the very near future" as Russia evacuates the occupied southern city.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Battle for Kherson 'about t... 🗣 Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, said Moscow's suspected use of Iranian-made drones in the attacks highlighted its "military and political bankruptcy"
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Rescue workers inspect a bu...
Oct 18, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
An explosion allegedly caused by sabotage has destroyed 50 metres of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, new underwater images show
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… "It is only an extreme force that can bend metal that thick in the way we are seeing," Trond Larsen, drone operator with the Norwegian company Blueye Robotics, told the Danish newspaper Expressen

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… First images released from ...
Oct 18, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
🇨🇳Introducing How to become a dictator, a new podcast from the Telegraph.

Uncle Xi, Mao 2.0, Winnie the Pooh.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has many names, but what do we really know about him? @sophia_yan is going to find out - but this might be her toughest assignment yet. 🔴 In episode 1, @sophia_yan takes a deep dive into Xi Jinping’s younger years, from being sent to a cave to do manual labour during the Cultural Revolution, to his dark family history.

Wei Jingsheng had a similar upbring to Xi Jinping, but they went down very different paths.
Oct 18, 2022 14 tweets 7 min read
🔴The death toll from a Russian warplane crash has risen to at least 13 people, including three children, Russian authorities said on Tuesday as search operations ended.

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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Emergencies personnel work at the crash site of a Sukhoi Su- 🔴 A Russian missile hit an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian port city Mykolaiv, in one of three explosions heard in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… A local resident sits at a site of a residential building he