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A Sandown-class minehunter

UK transfers two minehunter ships to Ukraine to counter Russian blockade and open up Black Sea trade routes

British politicians and civil society have been targeted by Russia

Russian spies accused of sustained campaign to hack phones and emails of UK politicians and journalists

Illia Kyva

Ukrainian 'traitor' ex-MP assassinated in Russia after he called for Putin to use weapons of mass destruction

Jacek Siewiera, the chief of Poland's National Security Bureau, said Nato has three years to prepare for Russian attack

Nato has three years to prepare for a Russian attack, Poland warns as fears grow over another Putin offensive

The mayor of Kyiv has claimed president Zelenskyy is becoming increasingly autocratic.

‘Zelenskyy is becoming an autocrat’ Kyiv mayor Klitschko says, as he warns Ukraine will soon be 'no different to Russia'

Migrants have been crossing the Finnish border from Russia on bikes and scooters

Russia 'sends migrants over border with EU to Finland on scooters and bikes' to destabilise Europe

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into Ms Ovsyannikova's illness

Russian journalist who protested war in Ukraine on live TV may have been poisoned

Kharkiv was bombed by Russia early on Friday morning

Ukrainian boy, 10, wearing Spiderman pyjamas, killed alongside grandma in Russian missile attack on Kharkiv

Putin said Prigozhin may have been high or drunk during crash

Putin says 'high or drunk' Wagner boss Prigozhin was killed when a grenade exploded on plane

Putin has threatened the West with total nuclear annihilation.

Putin vows to create 'new world' and threatens West with total nuclear destruction in event of strike on Russia

Mr Prigozhin’s aborted rebellion in June was the most serious challenge for the Russian president.

Hand grenade fragments found in bodies from Prigozhin plane crash

50 people have been killed, including a six-year-old boy.

Russian attack kills at least 51 people, including child, as bombs target eastern Ukrainian village

Russia's Black Sea naval headquarters has been hit by a missile strike

Ukraine claims 'senior officers' killed after 'British' missile smashes into Russian Black Sea navy HQ in Crimea

Russia's Black Sea naval headquarters has been hit by a missile strike

'British' missile smashes into Russian Black Sea navy HQ in Crimea, sending plume of smoke billowing into the sky

Vanya Gaberova has been charged with spying

'Award winning' Bulgarian beautician, 29, who runs salon in north London among five accused of spying for Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations today

'Evil cannot be trusted': Zelenskyy accuses Russia of 'weaponising food, children and AI' in United Nations address

Charges against Mikhail Fridman have been dropped

'Britain's FBI' fumbles ten-month investigation into London's last Russian oligarch as mansion raid was 'unlawful'

Vladimir Putin

If the West does not enable Ukraine to prevail against Putin, all of our other problems will seem trivial