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Ukraine conflict: Here are the weapons powering Putin’s nuclear arsenal

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Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in eastern Ukraine last week, missiles have hit locations across the country, including the capital, Kyiv. 

Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has caused what’s thought to be hundreds of casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainians have had to flee to neighboring countries.

As locations across the country face bombs, ground-based assaults and ‘horrific’ airstrikes, Putin has reminded the rest of the world of Russia’s advanced nuclear capability.   

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Putin’s militia with orders to kill Zelensky: Blood-thirsty mercenaries The Wagner Group revealed

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The 400-strong squad of bloodthirsty mercenaries flown in from Africa with orders to kill Volodymyr Zelensky are part of a notorious private militia linked to a string of rapes, robberies, murders, and alleged war crimes.

The Wagner Group – which is believed to have a hit list of 23 key figures including the Klitschko brothers – is considered by military experts to be at the beck and call of Vladimir Putin, although the Kremlin has repeatedly denied this.

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Fashion influencer is slammed for posing in a bikini while raising awareness for Ukraine

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New York-based influencer Danielle Bernstein has been branded ‘tone deaf’ and ‘careless’ for posing in a bikini and encouraging people to buy her swimwear line – while claiming to raise awareness for the crisis in Ukraine.

Danielle, 29, who founded the blog We Wore What and has more than 2.8 million Instagram followers, took to the social media site to share a snap of herself in a bikini to promote her latest swimwear line – while also referencing the war

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Ukraine war: Kyiv survives another night as Russians suffer ‘serious’ losses

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Kyiv has survived another night under Russian attack with Putin’s ‘demoralised and exhausted’ troops suffering ‘heavy losses’ trying and failing to break through defences in the city’s outskirts, Ukraine’s commander has said. 

Colonel General Alexander Syrsky, who is in charge of defending the city, said on Monday morning that ‘all attempts’ to breach the city failed and that the situation is currently ‘under control’. ‘We showed that we can protect our home from uninvited guests,’ he added.

Ukraine war: The

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Ukraine war: Belarus poised to declare war as special forces are ‘loaded onto planes in’ 

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The Ukrainian state security service has officially reported that a rocket arrack on Zhytomyr Airport – located some 93 miles west of Kiev – was launched from the territory of Belarus. 

Belarusian special forces were seen loading onto airplanes in preparation for an air assault on Kyiv in what could be a widening of the war, military sources stated.

Ukrainian intelligence has reportedly learned from within Belarus that ‘special ops’ troops have been spotted loading up planes for a major

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How Oleksandr Zinchenko went from fleeing war-torn hometown to top of British game

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Football fans were left in tears last night after Ukrainian player Oleksandr Zinchenko embraced fellow countryman Vitaliy Mykolenko in an emotional show of support for their country in the wake of Russia’s invasion. 

But the touching move was unsurprising from Zinchenko, 25,  whose own remarkable journey to the Premier League club saw him flee to Moscow as a teenager after Russia’s invasion of Crimea. 

Now a top midfielder on a reported salary of £20,000 a week, he’s come along way

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World watches on as Ukraine REFUSES to surrender in bloody war

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More remarkable footage emerged today as the war in Ukraine entered its third day. 

Locals and cameramen captured the latest developments in the bloody conflict in eastern Europe, as Ukraine refuses to surrender amid an onslaught of Russian attacks.

It comes as the president emerged on Saturday morning defiant and determined in the face of Russian advances on his capital city, vowing to fight Vladimir Putin’s forces.

Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the false claims that he had surrendered and told his

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Zelensky fires warning shot to Putin as noose tightens around Kyiv

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Defiant president Volodmyr Zelensky today pledged to ‘destroy the occupiers’ as he said his country’s army had successfully repelled Russian forces advancing on Kyiv.

In a video message to the besieged nation, Zelensky accused the Kremlin of attempting to seize the capital, overthrow the government and install a ‘puppet’ regime ‘like in Donetsk’, one of two separatist regions which warmonger Vladimir Putin officially recognised before launching an all-out invasion. 

Declaring ‘we broke their idea’, he added: ‘The fights are going

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Russian space agency boss warns against sanctions that could block cooperation on the ISS

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The head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, warned the US against introducing sanctions against its space program, threatening to stop maintenance that could see the 500 ton facility fall out of orbit and potentially land on the US.

So far the four US astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station have been ‘largely isolated’ from tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to experts familiar with the station’s operation.

Roscosmos Director General, Dmitry Rogozin, posted

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Defiant Zelensky emerges at dawn in Kyiv after Putin’s forces stormed the capital

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UKRAINE WAR: LATEST 

  • Russia said it is not willing to negotiate with Ukraine’s government until military operation is over
  • Came after Zelensky called for a sit-down with Putin to end the fighting
  • Putin said he would be willing to send a team of negotiators to meet Zelensky – in Belarus, which is helping with the invasion 
  • Russian president then called on Ukrainian military to overthrow the ‘regime’ in Kyiv 
  • Israel has been proposed as a neutral ground for any negotiations 
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