The Latest Breaking News from Ministry of Defence

Russia has confirmed the Moskva missile cruiser, the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, has sunk while being towed to port following what it said was a fire and explosions involving ammunition stowed onboard.

Kusti Salm, the permanent secretary for the Estonian Ministry of Defence, has called Russia ‘a historic-level murderer’.

Voices sympathetic to Russia are posing as fact-checkers in a bid to sow doubt and confusion, and to drain sympathy from a world watching the invasion of Ukraine.

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WFEL in Stockport and Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land in Telford will produce over 506 of the state-of-the-art vehicles between them

The bunkers were built at a time when there was very real fear of a nuclear war

Vladimir Putin’s retreat from Kyiv may be complete, according to the Ministry of Defence, but the horrifying consequences of Russia’s attacks are growing clearer and more appalling by the day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the destruction of Borodyanka is “more horrific” than what was discovered in Bucha, where…

The bodies of 26 people have been pulled from the rubble of two apartment blocks in the town northwest of Kyiv

A ‘mass redeployment’ of troops to eastern Ukraine would take at least a week, British defence chiefs said

Boris Johnson said ‘we are certainly looking at what more military assistance we can give’ after reports that the UK could send armoured vehicles.

The stolen fuel was due to fill up generators powering HMS Bulwark, a 19,560-tonne assault ship, at HMNB Devonport.