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Most of those surveyed assume that the Russian-Ukrainian war will not end this year, according to today's issue of Rzeczpospolita.more

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a BBC documentary that in a telephone conversation in February last year, before Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin threatened him with a "missile strike".more

The British Army feels that it is taking almost the entire burden of British aid to Ukraine and believes that the Royal Navy and RAF, or navy and air force, should participate more, the Daily Telegraph reported.more

Despite Russia's heavy losses in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is preparing for a new offensive that could start as early as February or March, Bloomberg reports, citing sources in the Russian authorities. He adds that in the long term, Russia is preparing for a long-term conflict.more

61 per cent of Poles support sending weapons, including tanks, to Ukraine; 20 per cent are against it, according to a Social Changes poll carried out for the wPolityce.pl portal.more

The UK will begin training Ukrainian soldiers next week to handle and repair Challenger 2 tanks being sent to the country, while the aim is for the tanks themselves to arrive before the end of March, Deputy Defence Minister Alex Chalk announced yesterday.more

To help Ukraine win the war, a huge arms factory must be built in Poland, as the current donation model is unsustainable in the long term, Tobias Ellwood, head of the defence committee in the UK House of Commons, said today.more

UNESCO, the UN organisation for culture, art and science - announced yesterday that it has included the historic centre of Odessa, located in southern Ukraine, on its list of endangered World Heritage sites. The city has been repeatedly bombed since the beginning of the Russian invasion.more

The decision of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to support Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks marks a watershed moment in the West's assistance to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, the Brussels news portal Politico assessed today.more

Two British volunteers who went missing near Soledar in eastern Ukraine in early January died while helping to evacuate the town, the family of one of them said in a statement.more

The Doomsday Clock moves the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists say Russia's "thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict ... is a terrible risk". more

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, called on EU member states to continue talks on the use of the 300 billion dollars of frozen assets of the Russian central bank for the reconstruction of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported.more

The plans announced by Russia for major changes in the structure of the armed forces signal that its leaders estimate that the increased conventional threat will last for many more years, the British Ministry of Defense reported.more

Great Britain continues to support an international agreement that would result in the transfer of German-made tanks to Ukraine, British Foreign Minister James Cleverly said today.more

Poland shames Germany with her courage; has much more reason to fear Russia and yet does what Germany should have done, Richard Kemp, a retired British army colonel, wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday.more

"The Russians are bombing and we are discussing!" former NATO general Hans-Lothar Domroese told the Bild newspaper, criticizing Berlin's Ramstein announcement that it wanted to supply Ukraine with more weapons and equipment worth a billion euros, but did not include tanks.more

Portugal's general prosecutor's office has launched an investigation against seven Ukrainians residing in the country, who allegedly used threats against a Russian woman who ran a USSR souvenir shop in Braga. The Ukrainian men say they only demanded that goods promoting "Russian imperialism" be removed from the trading post.more

CIA Director William J. Burns made a secret visit to Kiev last week. He briefed President Volodymyr Zelensky on his predictions for Russia's future military strategy in the context of the recent massive attacks on Bakhmut, among others, and Ukraine's preparations for a counter-offensive.more

Britain will give Ukraine another 600 Brimstone missiles, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace has announced. He also stressed that "if Russian President Vladimir Putin counts that the West will get bored with the war, he is wrong."more

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US has refused to provide Kiev with weapons capable of effectively striking Crimea, where there are thousands of Russian troops and numerous Russian military bases. Now Washington seems to be softening that stance.more

Brits are now paying for their very own personalised rockets for Ukrainian soldiers to fire at the enemy. more

Vladimir Putin may announce a second wave of mobilisation in Russia as early as today. Just today, he is due to deliver a speech in St Petersburg to mark the 80th anniversary of Soviet troops breaking the German siege of Leningrad, the Russian dictator's hometown, and Putin likes to use symbolic dates for proclamations to the nation, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed.more

The three main figures in Ukraine's interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary.more

CIA Director Bill Burns, before the Russian invasion, revealed to Volodymyr Zelensky the details of the Kremlin's planned assassination attempt, The Insider reports, based on Chris Whipple's book The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office specified late last night that Ukraine will receive 14 Challenger 2 tanks in the near future, and also announced the handover of some 30 AS90 self-propelled cannon howitzers.more