3 years ago"We also committed today to commence new trilateral cooperation on hypersonics and counter-hypersonics, and electronic warfare capabilities, as well as to expand information sharing and to deepen cooperation on defense innovation." - AUKUS leaders' statement
3 years agoAUKUS alliance of U.S., UK, and Australia agrees to start new cooperation on hypersonics and electronic warfare capabilities after joint leaders call: UK statement
3 years agoBritain: 350 billion dollars of Russia's assets were frozen and we prevented Putin from using it in the war
3 years agoGardaí are understood to be investigating whether a murder in north Dublin yesterday is linked to two other shootings in the area over the weekend
3 years agoBritish Prime Minister's Office: Johnson briefed Zelensky on the results of the donors' conference dedicated to financing military support for Ukraine
3 years agoThe UK Ambassador to Ukraine: "Monstrous crimes becoming clearer daily" - mass graves, bodies in streets - as Russia "withdraws and regroups"
3 years agoWest Midlands Police:We are continuing to deal with activists at a site in Tyburn, Birmingham this afternoon. Six people have been arrested on suspicion of unlawful obstruction and taken into police custody. We appreciate the public's patience as we continue to deal with this incident
3 years agoBritain and its allies have agreed to send air and coastal defence systems, longer-range artillery and counter battery capabilities, armoured vehicles as well as provide wider training and logistical support to Ukraine, British defence minister Ben Wallace said
3 years agoDefence Secretary @BWallaceMP says long range artillery and armoured vehicles (although not tanks) will be supplied to Ukraine as a result of today's donor conference
3 years agoBritish Foreign Secretary: New sanctions target Putin's supporters and promoters
3 years agoBritain imposed sanctions against "MIA Russia Today"
3 years agoBritish Foreign Secretary: We will continue to intensify pressure on Moscow as long as Russian forces are present in Ukraine
3 years agoAircraft leasing giant Avolon casts doubt on renting to Russian airlines again after Putin seizes planes
3 years agoIreland is expelling 4 Russian diplomats, according to @simoncoveney
3 years agoOfficers from the U.K. NCA's "combating kleptocracy cell" have detained a £38m superyacht owned by an unnamed Russian businessman in Canary Wharf. The vessel, Phi, is registered to a St Kitts and Nevis company and carried Maltese flags "to hide its origins", NCA said
3 years agoJohnson: The ceasefire in Ukraine is not enough to lift sanctions on Russia
3 years agoRussia's Wagner Group "has deployed to eastern Ukraine" per Britain's military intelligence, says @MickSmeathUK. "They are expected to deploy more than 1,000 mercenaries, including senior leaders of the organisation, to undertake combat operations
3 years ago???? Am told that a Met police announcement could come as early as tonight on first batch of fines being issued over Partygate
3 years agoBoris Johnson:President @ZelenskyyUa updated me today on the humanitarian situation in Mariupol, as well as the current negotiations with Russia. The UK will continue to step up our efforts to help Ukraine defend itself from aggression
3 years agoA man has been arrested in connection with a fire at a homeless shelter in Dublin. Six people were injured, one seriously in the blaze at the building on Little Britain Street on Saturday evening. Alternative arrangements are being put in place for users of the shelter
3 years agoIreland: A woman has been arrested and a suspected firearm seized by police investigating a security alert which led to the evacuation of the Irish Foreign Secretary from an event in North Belfast
3 years agoBritain: Russian forces are trying to encircle the Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of the Donbass region
3 years agoUK should be doing "much more" to help refugees from Ukraine, says London mayor Khan
3 years agoRally in London today in support of Ukraine
3 years agoBritain: sending fighters and soldiers to join the NATO air control mission in the Black Sea
3 years 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
3 years agoBritish PM Johnson discusses by phone with the Chinese President developments in Ukraine
3 years agoThe 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
3 years agoBoris 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
3 years agoPolina Kovaleva, the effective stepdaughter of Sergey Lavrov, has now been sanctioned by the UK