Platform four, Lviv’s main railway station, lunchtime today. Another place where the fear of war and the scale of Ukraine’s refugee crisis was all too apparent. What an extraordinary and pitiful sight it presented. A couple of thousand people – mainly women
The US and its Western allies yesterday announced it would ban several Russian banks from the Swift global messaging system, in their harshest response yet to the invasion of Ukraine. Swift is often referred to as the ‘plumbing’ of global finance, and
So they finally got their war. But what are they going to do now? This is the most avoidable, needless conflict in modern history. It was nurtured and hatched in the small minds of foolish men. There was a compromise available, but because
As Russia’s Blitzkrieg pummels Ukraine on four separate fronts, a comforting narrative has taken hold among political elites and the media commentariat of Western capitals. Yes, we are powerless to intervene militarily to save a European democracy from unprovoked attack and occupation
Ukrainians were desperately trying to hold off the Russian invasion in the early hours of Saturday, at the end of a long night that saw Vladimir Putin’s forces advance from the north, south and west. Ukraine’s armed forces tweeted as dawn broke
A West End theatre photographer to the stars is facing jail for sexually assaulting an aspiring actress at a £400 photoshoot funded by her mother. Pascal Molliere, 55, stroked and kissed the woman intimately at his Fulham studion after suggesting he took
ADMIRAL LORD WEST: Vladmir Putin watched fall of Afghanistan with glee and thinks the 'West' is weak
Vladmir Putin watched with glee the failure in Afghanistan and thinks the ‘West’ is weak with no stomach for confrontation…and our military are not capable of what our nation expects, writes former First Sea Lord ADMIRAL LORD WEST of Spithead By Admiral
Thursday was supposed to be Freedom Day, the start of a bright new post-Covid era. It heralded instead a far darker dawn, the beginning of a new conflict, which not only threatens the innocent citizens of the Ukraine — but also poses
While two thirds of his armed forces are believed to be in Ukraine or supporting the invasion, Vladimir Putin is threatening to wage war on the West, starting with cyber attacks on Britain, experts have warned Britain may not yet be at
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