Ukrainian troops cheered and celebrated after reportedly shooting down a Russian drone with a British-made missile, new video shows. In footage shared online, a Ukrainian soldier is seen firing a laser-guided missile into the sky. After it seemingly hits the target – although this is not shown in the video – loud cheers are heard,
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Russia could launch a full-scale military offensive in the east of Ukraine within days, despite questions about the ability of its demoralised soldiers. Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukraine in the eastern Donbas region since 2014 and parts of the industrial region are under Russian control. Ukraine is believed to have tens of thousands of
French President Emmanuel Macron will face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections after making it through the first round. According to the official Ipsos exit poll, the president secured 28.1% of the vote and his rival won 23.3%. French voters will go to the polls again on 24 April to decide whether
Ukraine is bracing itself for a “hard battle” to come as Russian forces continue amassing in the east of the country, with officials urging civilians to flee. While the threat to the capital Kyiv has receded, it is rising in the east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned. “This will be a hard battle, we believe in
Poland has summoned the French ambassador after the country’s prime minister was called a “far-right anti-Semite” by Emmanuel Macron. The comments came after Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki compared the French president’s phone calls with Vladimir Putin to negotiating with Hitler. Mr Macron is a day away from France’s presidential election – where his main rival
Every day for the past five days a young woman has stood by the pulverised ruins of a tower block waiting for news about her mother, aunt and cousin. A Russian airstrike on the building a month ago sliced it in half, obliterating the side where Anna Matviienko’s family had been staying. She had been
French voters will go to the polls in the first round of France’s 2022 presidential elections on Sunday. Although President Emmanuel Macron is still leading the polls, his main rival Marine Le Pen has climbed up the ratings and now poses a veritable challenge to his hopes of a second term in the Elysee. If
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing a no-confidence vote in parliament this morning, one he is expected to lose. It comes a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court blocked his bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve parliament and call elections early was illegal. This set the stage for today’s vote,
The remains of a ballistic missile lie on the grass outside the station in Kramatorsk, its work already done. On the side, there is a message, за детей, which translates from Russian as for – or on behalf of the children. It is a message of revenge it seems, sprayed in white paint. However, there
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded a “firm global response” as he blamed Russian forces for a missile strike near a railway station which killed at least 50 people, with the UK set to provide fresh military aid to his country. The UK will send armoured vehicles to Ukraine for the first time as part of
Russian soldiers have been accused of carrying out “genocide” in the Ukrainian town of Bucha amid harrowing evidence of mass graves, torture and bodies lying in the streets as Kremlin forces pull back from Kyiv. Ukraine officials say some victims were shot in the head with their hands tied behind their back and there has been
The Russian military has dug up Chernobyl’s poisonous legacy and potentially dispersed it into Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, say Ukrainian officials. Russia occupied the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster early in their invasion with 1,500 troops and armoured vehicles. The soil is heavily contaminated but, despite that, Russian troops were ordered to dig defensive
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said “atrocities” in Bucha need to be investigated as war crimes after images emerged of Ukrainian civilians lying dead on the streets of the city near Kyiv. Residents of Bucha said the people were killed by Russian soldiers without any apparent provocation, while Russia has not commented on the claims.
It is a miracle 13-year-old Sophia is still alive. The schoolgirl was left with a piece of shrapnel the size of a peanut embedded in her brain following a Russian attack on her village in southern Ukraine last month. She is now recovering in the country’s top children’s hospital in Kyiv, her head shaven and
Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike on an oil depot in Belgorod, a Russian city close to the Ukrainian border. This is the first accusation of a Ukrainian air strike on Russian soil since the war between the two countries began on 24 February. Image: The oil depot is located
Moscow is redeploying forces to Ukraine from Russian-backed breakaway regions in Georgia, according to British defence officials. The Ministry of Defence said that between 1,200 and 2,000 of these Russian troops are being organised into three battalion tactical groups. “It is highly unlikely that Russia planned to generate reinforcement in this manner, and it is