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Russia’s tanks were rolling towards Kyiv, their fighter jets screaming overhead. Vladimir Putin was hoping for a blitzkrieg strike that would see the Ukrainian president dead and the nation subjugated. But his plan failed, and a year later Ukraine’s armed forces have thrown back the “second army in the world” and are preparing to launch

A British national captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside Ukrainian troops has recalled how he was tortured and left unable to walk during his ordeal. Shaun Pinner was among five Britons released from Russian detention in Ukraine in a prisoner swap last September. Appearing on this week’s Beth Rigby Interviews, the former soldier also

A teacher has been stabbed to death by a pupil during a lesson at a school in southwest France, government officials have said. The victim, a 50-year-old Spanish teacher, was stabbed in the chest at Saint Thomas d’Aquin private high school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, near Bordeaux, broadcaster BFM TV reported. A 16-year-old student at the Roman

Russia’s president had a message of defiance for the West as he suspended participation in the last major nuclear arms control treaty with the United States. Vladimir Putin also vowed to conduct nuclear weapons tests if Washington chose to do so and challenged the nuclear weapons posture of the UK and France. If anyone in

Vladimir Putin has blamed the West for starting the war in Ukraine and claimed Russia responded with force “in order to stop it”. In a speech describing his aims as the first anniversary of the conflict nears, the Russian president said Ukraine was in talks with the West about weapons before Russia invaded its neighbour

Three people have been killed and more than 200 injured after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border two weeks after massive quake in the region left more than 45,000 dead. More buildings have collapsed, trapping some people, while more than 130 injuries were recorded in neighbouring Syria. Turkey’s AFAD disaster management agency said

US President Joe Biden has visited the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on his first trip to the country since Russia’s invasion on 24 February last year. The president said Washington would provide Kyiv with a new military aid package worth $500m which would be announced on Tuesday, as he was pictured walking in the city with

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast as Kim Jong Un’s sister warned of “using the Pacific as our firing range”. The missiles were launched on Monday morning local time and fell into the sea outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the country’s coast guard said. There were no reports of damage

Rishi Sunak has said the UK stands “ready to support all allies if they can provide fighter jets to Ukraine now”. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he said the UK was already “leading” on training Ukrainian fighter jet pilots and reiterated his call for allies to “double down” in support. Earlier, Mr Sunak said

A man in the US is accused of holding a woman against her will for nearly a year before she escaped and asked for help at a petrol station. The woman ran to the store in New Jersey on 7 February where she alleged she had been kidnapped, the state attorney general’s office said. Security

Rishi Sunak will urge Western leaders to “double down” on military support for Ukraine, as troops on the front line plead for more weapons. The prime minister is set to tell the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that “advanced, NATO-standard capabilities” are needed to banish Russian forces. UK one of Russia’s ‘main targets’ – Ukraine

The president of Poland has told Sky News that Ukraine will need fighter jets to see off the threat from Russia. In an exclusive interview during his visit to the UK, Andrzej Duda also warned that Vladimir Putin is trying to exhaust the West in his effort to defeat Ukraine. President Duda has previously insisted

Russia is due to take part in a joint naval exercise with China and South Africa which could see the test launch of a hypersonic cruise missile – as Western leaders assemble for a major security conference. A frigate armed with the Zircon weapon has been deployed for 10 days of joint drills in the

Chinese President Xi Jinping does not want to damage relations with the US over the “spy” balloon shot down over North America, President Joe Biden has said. “I think the last thing that Xi wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the United States and with me,” Mr Biden told Sky News’ affiliate NBC

Rare footage has been released showing the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The video, most of which has not been seen by the public before, was shot just months after explorers found the wreckage in September 1985. More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic, which was on its way from Southampton

After two days of diplomacy and negotiations, NATO’s meeting broke up with lots of ideas, but no deal to send fighter jets to Ukraine. Despite the smiles and bonhomie of Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov, NATO’s resolve didn’t buckle. The question of supplying planes remains “under discussion”, we are told, but other things took precedence.