‘You’ll help us find others’: Ukrainian rape victim ordered to help Russian troops hunt for women
Russians are believed to have burnt the corpses of many their victims, in turn destroying evidence of rape. “For Russians, it is a routine tactic,” Ms Pavlichenko…
Alexei Navalny: a riveting spectacle of Putin’s arch enemy solving his own attempted murder
For 20 years, Vladimir Putin has refused to say the name of his arch-enemy in Russian politics, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “That citizen”, “a certain person”…
World War Three now a ‘real’ danger, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warns
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, has warned there is a “real” danger of a third world war breaking out after a day of apparent Ukrainian attacks on…
Watch: Video tour of Azovstal’s interminable tunnels shielding civilians from Russian fire
Iryna Vereshchuk, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister, wrote on the Telegram messaging app: “Today, the Russian side once again announced the existence of a corridor for civilians…
Ukraine’s struggle makes the West look decadent
I am writing from Ukraine, only please don’t tell my mother. She thinks I’m at a stag do in Krakow. I came to report on Easter in…
Ukraine evening briefing: Five developments as Russia strikes railway stations and fuel depots
4. UK to send Stormer armoured vehicles to Ukraine Britain will send Stormer armoured vehicles fitted with anti-aircraft missile launchers to Ukraine, Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary,…
Around 15,000 Russian troops have died since Ukraine invasion began, says Ben Wallace
The Alvis Stormer is a lightly armoured, tracked vehicle that first came into service with the British Army in the 1970s. It can be used in a…
‘In Russia, brutality is part of everyday life’: meet Face, the rapper exiled by Putin
The music videos by this fearless rising artist have over 75 million views on YouTube and more than one million monthly listeners on Spotify, despite the streaming…
US offers more than $300m in military financing as Antony Blinken visits Ukraine
The European Union is preparing “smart sanctions” against Russian oil imports, possibly some form of oil embargo, The Times reported on Monday, citing Valdis Dombrovskis, the executive…
Watch: Azovstal’s long and winding tunnels shielding civilians from Russian fire
Iryna Vereshchuk, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister, wrote on the Telegram messaging app: “Today, the Russian side once again announced the existence of a corridor for civilians…
Ukraine urges Johnson to ensure ‘not a drop’ of Russian oil reaches the UK
Ukraine’s government has urged the UK to ensure “not a single drop of Russian oil enters the country”, as it pushed for a “total and immediate” boycott…
Arrogant, incompetent and corrupt: war is shattering our delusions of the German elite
The tentacles of the Kremlin reach much more widely into the German economy than just the energy industry, however. Until the invasion of the Crimea in 2014…
Ukraine’s Orthodox worshippers turn away from Moscow as they mark first Easter of war
But if Putin wishes to reunite “ancient Rus” around a strengthened Orthodox communion, the way he’s gone about doing it has backfired horribly. In the past weeks,…
Vladimir Putin sets up Stalin-esque network of state informers
Officially the so-called “special operation” is widely supported by the Russian government, but the Kremlin is still worried about dissent. Open criticism of the war, which Putin has said…
Russia’s ‘Satan II’ nuclear missile will be ready by autumn, warns country’s space chief
Russia’s new nuclear missile, which is capable of striking the UK and the US, will be ready to fire by the autumn, the head of the country’s…
Ukrainian refugee, 12, reaches UK after hosts finally overcome Home Office hurdles
Sitting beside Milana, her mother Marina, who now plans to return to Ukraine, said she was relieved her daughter is now in “a safe country and a…
Ukraine evening briefing: Five developments as Russia claims to have destroyed Odesa terminal storing foreign weapons
Good evening. Russia has turned its missiles on the southern port city of Odesa today, with a three-month-old baby among its victims. Meanwhile, Russian forces are reported…
With exhausted troops and low morale, Vladimir Putin’s gamble in the Donbas could backfire
The logistic lines, stretched and harried from the flanks by Ukrainian raiding parties, are in no shape to open an axis west as well as push into…
Friday evening news briefing: Vladimir Putin expands war goals
Meanwhile, it also emerged that Slovenia will give tanks to the Ukrainians after Germany agreed in turn to pay for the country’s new armoured vehicles. See a…
Russia seeks to capture all of southern Ukraine in major expansion of war goals
Russia now aims to occupy all of southern Ukraine as well as taking the Donbas in the east, a top Russian commander said on Friday, indicating an…
UK set to provide Poland with Challenger II tanks in Ukraine arms drive
Britain is planning to send tanks to Poland so more can be provided to Ukraine, Boris Johnson has announced as he warned Russia could still win the…
Exclusive: France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to Russia
France and Germany armed Russia with €273 million (£230 million) of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has…
‘We will fight to the last bullet’, declare Ukrainian fighters trapped in Azovstal steel plant
Before the war, Vladislav was a kickboxer from the Zaporizhzhia region and joined the military aged 19. Now his family fear for his life. “But who will…
Ukraine morning briefing: Five developments as Russia strikes 58 military targets overnight
Good morning. The devastated city of Mariupol “continues to resist” despite Russian claims to have captured it, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday as he welcomed…
Russia is no longer the dominant power in Eastern Europe
Bolstered by the Red Army’s fearsome reputation in World War Two, many analysts believed that the Russian military was comfortably Eastern Europe’s premier military power. This conjecture…