“Ukraine – Russia”

Ukraine has bought thousands of uncrewed robotic ground vehicles next year to shuttle ammunition and supplies to infantry in the trenches and evacuate wounded soldiers.

The buggy-like vehicles, an example of how technology is transforming trench warfare in Ukraine, would spare troops from operating in areas near the front where Russian shelling and drones are rife, Mykhailo Fedorov, the deputy prime minister for innovation, said.

Mr Fedorov, who has overseen drone procurement for most of the war, told Reuters: “This year we purchased several thousand ground platforms, and next year, I believe, we need tens of thousands.”

President Zelensky’s latest suggestions for how to end the fighting in Ukraine are not yet the basis for a peace settlement, but they contain some hopeful pointers towards one. They should form the starting point of the incoming Trump administration’s negotiations with both Moscow and Kyiv.

Two points in particular are fundamental. The first is Zelensky’s acknowledgement that the areas of Ukraine now held by Russia will remain under Russia’s de facto control. There will be no Ukrainian or Western legal recognition of Russian annexations, but the issue will be left for future negotiation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to hand over territory to Russia in exchange for NATO protection if it means ending the war.

“If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky said through a translator in an interview with Sky News Friday.

Even before he was taken prisoner by Russian forces last weekend, former British Army soldier James Anderson had had people warning him that going to fight in Ukraine might be a bad idea. His own family, for one, had begged him not to go, fearing he wouldn’t come back alive. But like thousands of other young men worldwide, the lure of life as a freedom fighter in the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine proved impossible to ignore.

Investigation focusing on whether captain of Yi Peng 3 was directed to deliberately carry out damage by Moscow

A Chinese ship is suspected of severing two critical internet cables in the Baltic Sea in an act of sabotage that may have been orchestrated by Russia.

Investigators believe that the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese-registered bulk carrier, deliberately severed the two key cables last week by dragging its anchor along the Baltic seabed for more than 100 miles.

The investigation is now focused on whether the captain of the 225-metre-long bulk carrier was directed to carry out the suspected sabotage by Moscow.

Russia’s army has made its biggest weekly advance in Ukraine since the early days of its full-scale invasion, analysts have said, with its troops entering a key frontline town in the Donetsk region.

The gains came as Russia vowed a fresh response to new Ukrainian strikes on its territory with US-supplied missiles, something the Kremlin has warned could spark a nuclear war, as one of President Putin’s top allies said Moscow had no interest in a ceasefire.

On the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Anton says the nuclear weapons base he was serving at was put on full combat alert.

“Before that, we had only exercises. But on the day the war started, the weapons were fully in place,” says the former officer in the Russian nuclear forces. “We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike.”

I met Anton in a secret location outside Russia. For his own protection, the BBC will not reveal where. We have also changed his name and are not showing his face.

Cyberwarfare is now a “daily reality” for Britain’s national security, Pat McFadden will warn on Monday as he announces a new laboratory to protect the country from Russian attempts to “weaponise” artificial intelligence.

The Cabinet Office minister will use a speech at Nato’s cybersecurity conference in London to announce a new laboratory for AI security research. An initial £8 million of government funding will bring together Britain’s intelligence agencies, world-leading academics and the tech industry to develop new cyber defences to protect Britain’s national infrastructure.

A 22-year-old former British Army soldier fighting with Ukrainian troops has been captured by Russian forces in the war-torn Kursk region, according to reports.

A young man in military fatigues speaking with an English accent identified himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson in a video circulating in Russian media on Sunday.

Anderson, who appears to have his hands tied, claimed that he served four years as a signalman in the British army before he joined the International Legion of Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion.

At a secret location outside Kyiv, the brigadier watched as explosions hammered the concrete structure that his team of ten British military engineers, intelligence officers and diplomats had clandestinely helped to create.

The rocket test, described by sources to The Sunday Times, was the culmination of months of hard work, under the constant threat of Russian airstrikes. When it finished in February, the British engineers, alongside teams from America, Germany and Japan, advised their Ukrainian colleagues that they should build the structures to protect Ukraine’s energy grid from Russian attack.

Soon after warning that Russia’s newly deployed ‘Oreshnik’ nuclear capable hypersonic missile is able to reach any European capital, at a top speed of Mach 10+ —which is significantly faster than a bullet—Russian state media issued the below ominous infographic.

Russian media released a new graphic showing Oreshnik missile flight times to major cities in Europe pic.twitter.com/Ry7yLymK2n

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) November 22, 2024

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