2 year agoIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney was giving a peace-building speech in Belfast when the building was evacuated due to security alert. Watch the moment Mr Coveney had to leave the podium. Footage courtesy of the John and Pat Hume Foundation
British PM Johnson discusses by phone with the Chinese President developments in Ukraine
The UK NCSC assessed that it was "almost certain" that FSB's Centre 16, also known as "Energetic Bear", "Berserk Bear" and "Crouching Yeti", conducted a "malign programme of cyber activity" targeting critical infrastructure and IT systems in Europe, the Americas, and Asia
Boris Johnson:The UK will provide an additional 6,000 missiles to Ukraine, in addition to the 4,000 NLAW's and Javelin missiles already supplied. Lethal defensive military aid, including Starstreak high-velocity anti-air missiles, will help Ukrainians continue to defend themselves
Polina Kovaleva, the effective stepdaughter of Sergey Lavrov, has now been sanctioned by the UK
Foreign Office is preparing to announce sanctions against 65 more entities and individuals, including Russian billionaire Eugene Shvidler and Galina Danilchenko, who was installed by Moscow as the mayor of Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine
A 16 year old living in his mother's house in Oxford, England is suspected to be the mastermind behind many of the hacks conducted by hacking group Lapsus$, per multiple sources involved in various investigations of the hacking group. Full story to follow
2 year agoBritish Ministry of Defense: We are calling on YouTube to help us support Ukraine by taking down videos doctored by the Russian state and disseminated to try and sap the morale of a people fighting for their freedom
British Defense Ministry: The battles in northern Ukraine are still largely halted
Russia is likely to respond to failures to suppress Ukrainian revolt in occupied cities with increasingly "violent and coercive measures: British Defense Intelligence Russian efforts to manipulate media and install pro-Kremlin puppets have "failed" so far, UK assesses
2 year agoDefence Minister of Ukraine @oleksiireznikov met with British Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP in London today
British Defense Ministry: summoned the Russian military attache for the second time due to the invasion of Ukraine and the behavior of Russian forces
2 year agoUSAF B52´s out of RAF Fairford
2 year agoIn Trafalgar Square, London, UK, several thousand people are at a protest rally in support of Ukraine
Maher Maaroufe, 22, has been arrested on suspicion of murder by police investigating the death of Sabita Thanwani, 19, at student accommodation in Clerkenwell, central London, Scotland Yard said
British Foreign Office: We doubt Russia's seriousness in talks with Ukraine, and Putin is using time to regroup his forces
British Defense Secretary: We will not stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and the security of NATO's eastern flank should be strengthened
British Defense Secretary: We sent soldiers to Poland to help on the border with Ukraine
Peace talks to end Ukraine conflict could be a "smokescreen" for more extreme Russian military manoeuvres, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Saturday
British Home Secretary: We are absolutely determined to thwart Putin and will always defend freedom and the founding values of our way of life
Downing Street says Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this morning and "reiterated his disgust at Russia's barbaric actions in Ukraine and his admiration for the steadfast resistance of the Ukrainian people in the face of tyranny"
2 year agoOfcom: We have revoked RT's licence to broadcast in the UK with immediate effect. We do not consider RT to be fit and proper to hold a UK licence and cannot be satisfied that it can be a responsible broadcaster
British defence minister Ben Wallace said an imposter claiming to be the Ukrainian prime minister contacted him on Thursday and asked several "misleading questions"
UK says freezing tax cooperation with Russia and Belarus
A killer who brutally murdered an Aberdeen man he met on a dating website has been jailed for life for the "brutal and callous" attack
Iran FM @Amirabdolahian and UK FM @TrussLiz had a phone talk. UK has paid its long overdue debt to Iran. Iran released 2 British-Iranians, sending them back home today. Iran FM, in the phone call, hoped the confidence-building measures would pave the way for developing ties
U.K. DefSec Ben Wallace tells BBC that Britain IS supplying Starstreak anti aircraft missiles to Ukraine . Last week he told MPs examining the possibility - now says "we are supplying them - they will go into theatre ". Also says U.K. has now sent 4,000 ant tank weapons
The U.S. embassy in Kyiv says Russian forces have shot and killed 10 people standing in line for bread in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv
Nazanin is at the airport in Tehran and on her way home
UK impose more sanctions on Russia: - Adds 350 new sanctions listings - Adds 9 new listings under cyber sanctions government - Announces asset freeze and travel ban against Andrey Melnichenko, Petr Aven, Mikhail Fridman, Sergei Shoigu and Dmitry Medvedev
