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As a result of the war in Ukraine, Poland doubled its military spending. The August 15 military parade in Warsaw was the largest in decades; 2,000 people took part in it. soldiers, 200 vehicles and almost 100 jet planes at a time when the war in neighboring Ukraine has been going on for a year and a half - the website of the daily "Handelsblatt" reports today.more

More than 100 London Metropolitan Police officers have laid down their weapons, refusing to conduct firearms patrols, after a police sniper who shot a 24-year-old black man during an operation was charged with murder.more

The governments of Turkey and Hungary have signaled that they will ratify Sweden's accession to NATO next month, reports the American magazine "Foreign Policy", citing a high-ranking official in the Pentagon.more

British public support for the country having its own nuclear weapons has returned to levels not seen since the tensest moments of the Cold War, according to a poll published today.more

One of Ukraine's staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbour, as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates. more

A court in Russia has sentenced Corporal Madina Kaboloyeva to six years' imprisonment for avoiding military service; this is the first such sentence handed down to a woman in the country, the independent Russian TV channel Nastoyashchye Vremya reported today, noting that Kaboloyeva is pregnant and is also caring for a five-year-old child.more

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assessed that a quick end to the war in Ukraine should not be expected. Peace will come when Russia puts down its weapons, but if the Ukrainians surrender, their country will cease to exist, Stoltenberg said in an interview for the German media group Funke.more

"The West must stop dithering and send more weapons to Ukraine, or it risks the disaster that would be Vladimir Putin's victory," former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote yesterday in "The Spectator" weekly.more

A Russian pilot tried to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea last September, mistakenly believing he had permission to fire, the BBC revealed.more

The British Defense Ministry has been forced to cut training for Ukrainian soldiers at the Lydd Ranges training ground in Kent County in southeastern England by 30 percent due to complaints from local residents about noise nuisance, The Times reported yesterday.more

Nearly 50 GMB members at the Ayrshire weapons factory will stop work from Monday as union chiefs accuse MoD of holding talks ‘in bad faith’.more

North Korea has built its first "tactical nuclear attack submarine" and has deployed it to patrol the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan, North Korean state media reported.more

The Russian armed forces are "actively learning" more modern strategies from the Ukrainian troops, as a result of which they are reducing the advantage that Ukraine has on the battlefield, noted the British analytical center Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).more

One of 14 Challenger 2 tanks donated by Britain to Ukraine has apparently been destroyed in combat, British media reported today. This would be the first time a Challenger 2 has been destroyed as a result of an enemy attack in any conflict.more

Hackers targeted the database of a firm which handles the security for some of Britain's most secretive sites - including a nuclear submarine base and a chemical weapon lab, writes "the Mirror".more

The Royal Navy announced yesterday that its patrol vessels, together with Royal Air Force aircraft, had carried out a "coordinated monitoring operation" of Russian ships passing close to the British coast.more

22-year-old British volunteer Sam Newey was killed by Russian mortar fire in eastern Ukraine, his older brother said on social media yesterday. There are concerns about the fate of yet another Briton.more

The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin will have a marginal impact on the war in Ukraine, but it shows that Russia is a gangster state, said British military analyst Prof. Michael Clarke.more

Ukraine has so far received only 60 Leopard tanks, instead of the promised several hundred, the British weekly 'The Economist' reported yesterday, citing a source at the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.more

Ukraine will decide when the conditions are right for any peace talks with Russia, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a conference in the Norwegian city of Arendal.more

Poland, by mobilising troops on the border with Belarus, is setting an example to the UK of how the migration crisis should be tackled, the British 'Daily Express' writes in a commentary today.more

More than 900 Ukrainian Marines are returning home after completing six months of training in the UK by Royal Marines and British Army commandos, the UK Ministry of Defence has reported.more

"Russia must be contained in Ukraine now so that American soldiers do not have to shed blood later to renew peace in Europe as they did in both world wars," President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published in the Washington Post. The president also said he would push the White House to ensure that Ukraine received an invitation to join Nato at next year's summit.more

A future pandemic and extreme weather caused by climate change are among the key risks facing the UK, according to a new government register. more

The Russian Navy began exercises in the Baltic Sea yesterday with the participation of, among others, 30 ships and 30 aircraft, Reuters reported after the Russian Defense Ministry. Some 6,000 troops are taking part in the maneuvers.more