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The row comes as Sir Keir Starmer arrived in Washington for talks with Joe Biden

In today’s newsletter: A green light for the use of the Storm Shadow missile has been billed as a defining moment in the war – and Vladimir Putin has threatened that its use “would mean that Nato countries … are at war with Russia”. Is it a risk worth taking?

Not long after Russian dissident Ilya Yashin was freed in a major prisoner swap with the West, he received a hero's welcome in Berlin, a growing centre for exiled Russian activists.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said Kyiv’s surprise incursion launched August 6 into Russia’s border region of Kursk had “slowed” Moscow’s advance in eastern Ukraine. “In Kharkiv region, the enemy has been stopped, the progress in Donetsk region has been slowed down,” Zelensky said. He added that there are…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Joe Biden will discuss Friday whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia, in what is likely their last meeting before an election that could upend US policy on Ukraine.

Attack marks first time a missile has struck a civilian vessel transporting grains in open waters of the Black Sea. What we know on day 933

Prime minister set to hold intensive talks with US president to thrash out victory plan for war in Ukraine as Putin threatens war with Nato

UK PM responds to Putin’s threat that use of long-range British missiles inside Russia would put it at war with Nato

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pleading with Kyiv’s allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles into Russia

Biden’s Iran critics urge stronger sanctions enforcement and even tougher rhetoric as Putin relies on Tehran to provide equipment for its war in Ukraine

It comes amid reports US president Joe Biden could allow Ukraine to use British missiles inside Russia