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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Defence Committee: Royal Navy short of anti-submarine frigates for Arctic

The Defence Committee’s report on the High North also says the UK has let its under-ice submarine capability lapse.

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The Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke, F234, entering Portsmouth in 2017
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MI5 chief: Brexit result ‘not in dispute’ after Burnham’s Russia comments

The MI5 chief also backed the prime minister on a separate point, saying there was a hack and leak in the 2019 election campaign.

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Thames House, the London headquarters of MI5, seen from the street through a wide-angle lens
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Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’: Kyiv backs it if Moscow does, Russia silent

Zelenskyy said Russia struck a power plant in Kyiv and energy facilities in the Kharkiv region after Trump’s announcement, which came with no details.

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Archive photograph from 2015 of the Trypilska thermal power plant in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, with two tall chimneys and an electrical substation
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Burnham: ‘Clear answer’ that Russia interfered in Brexit vote

The prime minister did not say what evidence lay behind the answer, and a pro-Brexit group criticised the comments.

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The black front door of 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's official residence in London
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Streeting: UK does not support Trump’s Russia diesel deal

The defence secretary said it was for Ukrainians to choose their leader, after Trump suggested Ukraine should get a new one.

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Official portrait of Wes Streeting in a blue suit and red tie, standing beside a Union Jack flag
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Putin: All weapons ‘on the agenda’ for Kaliningrad

Putin said the warning was a response to Western talk of a Russian attack on Europe by 2029 or 2030, not a threat of Moscow’s own making.

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The Baltic Fleet headquarters building in Kaliningrad, with the Russian flag flying above it and a statue of Peter the Great in front.
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Zelensky: For Russia, ‘all ordinary life is simply a target’

Russia’s defence ministry said in two statements that it had hit data centres in Kyiv working for Ukraine’s armed forces.

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Volodymyr Zelensky speaking at a press conference
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Moscow hit by largest drone attack yet, mayor says

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 1,600 drones were shot down, 450 of them on the approach to Moscow, as Russia’s defence ministry reported destroying nearly 2,000…

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Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow