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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.

Reports suggest Vladimir Putin’s daughters will be hit by American and EU measures as officials and their families are targeted

British defence chiefs warned that Putin’s troops are deliberately inflicting a “worsening” humanitarian disaster on 160,000 people in the besieged city of Mariupol to force a Ukrainian surrender.

Over 40 MPs including from allies of ruling SLPP alliance sat as a separate block