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The UK will replenish stocks of any country that sends Russian or Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.

NATO has been mocked for comparing Ukraine’s war against Russia as a struggle comparable to the likes of Harry Potter and Marvel movies.

Mitsotakis said sending missiles to Ukraine would leave home undefended and they wanted new American systems before sending old to the front.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned that “war is coming” to Britain, as he redoubled his demands for more military spending.

Biden painted the Ukraine War as a fight for freedom and democracy, saying the world was “at an inflection point” where the stakes are “eternal.”

Thoughts are turning to the end of the Ukraine war, with suggestions from war crimes trials to Ukrainian tanks parked in Moscow’s Red Square.

The European Union claims that it has warned Communist China that supplying arms to Russia would cross a “red line” and have “consequences”. 

Germany lost over $100 billion as a result of the chaos brought about by the Ukraine War, the head of a major economic research institute in the country has said.

The head of NATO has rejected Ukrainian requests for it to be supplied with phosphorous weapons and outlawed cluster bombs.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain will be the first state to supply Ukraine with “longer-range weapons” to use in its war with Russia.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, just 8.5 per cent of Western businesses operating in Russia have actually left, despite many announcing their departure from the country.

LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that he does not support the policy of trying to force regime change in Russia against Vladimir Putin. 

MUNICH (AP) — Finland’s defence minister said Saturday that his country will join NATO without waiting for Sweden if its Nordic neighbour’s accession is held up by the Turkish government.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country – defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day. Hours later, they’ve reached 60.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said to prepare for a “long war” against Russia, while calling for more weapons to be sent to Ukraine.

A Belgian man who bought 50 Leopard I tanks in poor condition at rock-bottom prices is asking as much as a million euros per vehicle as Belgium and other countries look to supply Ukraine.

Sir Kier Starmer told President Zelensky that the UK’s military backing of Ukraine will remain the same if he is elected as prime minister.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley believes the United States should continue to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia but not write “blank checks,” asserting it is “a war about freedom.” 

Balloons were seen over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) before the country was struck by dozens of missiles, officials say.

Britain’s defence minister has warned that Ukraine must learn to fight while using weapons and ammunition sparingly, or face the possibility of running out.

The UK government announced it will observe a moment of silence for Ukraine and demonstrate Britain’s “solidarity” against Russia.

The UK government is currently rehearsing an economic response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a report on Wednesday has claimed.

The Pentagon is considering sending illicit weapons intercepted from Iran to Ukraine, according to a defense official.

The issue of food security has been “criminally neglected” by the European Union amid the ongoing fertiliser shortage, an MEP has claimed.

Police in Ireland have been accused of using a “wall” of officers to prevent a peaceful protest against mass migration into the country.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.

The leader of the Russian autonomous republic of Chechnya expects Kremlin forces to capture Kyiv (Kiev) by the end of 2023 and wants to invade Poland once Ukraine is defeated.

A growing debate is emerging in Germany as to whether military conscription should be reintroduced after it was abolished in 2011.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.

Sudan’s ruling military concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country, two Sudanese officials said Saturday.

The Finnish president said in an interview published Saturday that he trusts that Finland and Sweden will be admitted into NATO by July, and hinted that he wants the United States to put pressure on Turkey to approve their membership bids.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.