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No10 has warned that ‘elements’ of the Russian ‘playbook’ for an attack are starting to ‘play out in real time’

Russian president has recognised Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions as independent states: Zelenskiy says ‘we are not afraid’. Follow the latest updates

Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the need to step up the search for diplomatic solutions to the escalating crisis in eastern Ukraine in a phone call on Sunday, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Boris Johnson says conflict could be ‘biggest war in Europe’ since 1945

A new documentary reveals how the director of Russia’s only independent TV channel refused to be cowed by the Kremlin and struggled to bring the truth to her audience

EU capitals concerned UK is not ensuring identity of real estate owners known in event of sanctions

Russia extended military drills near Ukraine's northern borders Sunday amid increased fears that two days of sustained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russa-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion. Ukraine's president appealed for a ceasefire. The exercises were originally set to end Sunday and brought…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin might not be thinking logically so the threat of sanctions may not be enough to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The United States and Britain would seek to cut off Russian companies' access to US dollars and British pounds if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC. "The plan that we are seeing is for something that could be really the biggest…