Ukraine
President Xi never wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip | Simon Tisdall
Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly the saltire. Or...
Ukraine war briefing: Wildberries warehouse struck by Kyiv’s drones more than 2,000km from Russian border
Ukrainian long-range drones hit a warehouse beloning to Russia’s biggest online retailer in the Ural Mountains, more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the two countries’ border, local officials and...
Ukraine war briefing: We will build missiles the way we built drones – Zelenskyy
Volodymr Zelenskyy has said he wants “concrete results” by the end of this year on producing an anti-ballistic missile defence system for Ukraine. Zelenskyy referred to Ukraine’s role in...
Nato to ‘urgently’ get Ukraine air defences, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an...
Ukraine war briefing: Cut-price Patriot among options in desperate search for missile defence
Vladimir Tkachuk, the head of Russian drone manufacturer Uraldronzavod, was critically injured in a car bombing, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of assassination attempts...
Ukraine war briefing: Russian soldier in Crimea shoots comrades and civilians
A Russian soldier in Crimea opened fire on comrades, killing one and wounding another, before shooting civilians and killing three. Three other people were wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the...
Ukraine war briefing: Military’s former top commander says Kyiv has no chance of joining Nato
Ukraine’s former top military commander and now ambassador to the UK has been quoted as saying there is no prospect of the country joining Nato. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, quoted by...
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv’s forces hit Wildberries again amid deadly trade of strikes with Russia
Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least nine people in Russia on Sunday, with targets again including retail giant Wildberries, while Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five, according...
Ukraine war briefing: Strikes on three Russian oil refineries and sanctioned ship
One local woman, Marina, said a bad leg made the climb down from her 10th-floor apartment difficult, but the lack of electricity had sent her hunting for a gas...
Ukraine war briefing: Missile attack on Kyiv kills at least four as Zelenskyy pushes to use Starlink for attacks in Russia
Kyiv was once again under attack by ballistic missiles early on Saturday as Donald Trump retreated further from a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defence...