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Russia’s “high priority” to gaining ground near Donetsk, a British intelligence says, noting “minimal gains” despite “significant resources”. 

Russia’s strenuous efforts to capture Bakhmut, in the Donetsk Oblast, has “largely stalled”, according to British intelligence, which cited the “extreme attrition” of the Kremlin’s forces in the fight for the shattered city. 

Russian forces “fear” their Ukrainian foes are poised to launch a “major” offensive near the north-eastern front, around the Luhansk oblast of the Donbas and the Kharkiv (Kharkov) oblast, according to the British government.

Russia is taking passports from “increasingly disaffected” officials to prevent them fleeing abroad, the British Ministry of Defence said. 

The act of sending a wide variety of weapons to Ukraine is putting the British army at risk should donated armaments not be sufficiently replaced, the Labour Party has warned.

Russian and Ukrainian forces battled at close range in forest near the Donbas town of Kremina over Orthodox Christmas, according to British intelligence.

Hundreds of soldiers and their families have been housed in mouldy homes with no heating or hot water as boat migrants are put up in hotels.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is gambling its reputation somewhat by predicting Russia is “unlikely” to make significant gains in the coming months.

The Russian Federation is attempting to source more drones and “hundreds” of missiles from the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to sustain its campaign of strategic strikes against Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) believes. 

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims Russian forces have lost over 60 fixed-wing aircraft and have cut aerial missions from a high of 300 sorties a day to mere “tens”.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has claimed that Russian public support for the Ukraine war is “falling significantly” as it drags on and touches an increasing number of Russian families. 

Russia claims its forces are advancing in the Donetsk region of the Donbas, and that it has “liberated” a number of settlements.

Russian forces are striking Ukraine with Cold War-era nuclear missiles – with the nuclear warheads removed, crucially – according to British intelligence.

Recently mobilised Russian reservists are dying “in large numbers” in Ukraine, according to Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has credited Russia’s relatively well-executed withdrawal from Kherson to their forces’ more unified leadership under  General Sergei Surovikin, but believes they are still “riven” with poor leadership at lower levels and a “cover-up culture”.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has denied Russian allegations that the Royal Navy directed Ukrainian drone strikes against the Black Sea Fleet and facilitated the “terrorist attack” on the Nord Stream pipelines.

One illegal is said to have broken into a person’s home in Dover after the UK’s Royal Navy failed to intercept a number of migrant boats.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that his nation has now taken back over 3,000 square kilometres (~74,000 acres) from Russia within the last two weeks.

The chief recruiter for the Royal Air Force (RAF) resigned after being ordered to actively discriminate against white men in a way she believed was “unlawful”, reports suggest.

RAF recruiters have allegedly been ordered to hire ethnic minorities and women over white males in an effort to meet government-imposed diversity targets.

(AFP) – Russia is using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including “missile systems” and shell the surrounding areas in Ukraine, an official with Kyiv’s nuclear agency said Friday, while nearly the entire country was placed on air raid alert.

The first few hundred recruits are receiving instruction at sites across Britain in the first phase of a programme that aims to train up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

The Ministry of Defence said the 5.5-ton Kh-22 missiles, when used in ground attacks with conventional warheads, are highly inaccurate and can cause severe collateral damage and casualties.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that Russian forces are making “palpable progress” in eastern Ukraine, saying Ukrainian forces need long-range rocket launchers and other military hardware.

An EU plan to export Ukrainian grain using the country’s train networks to alleviate the global food crisis is “highly unlikely” to work, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.

Belarusian forces on the border may force Ukrainian troops to stay put instead of going to support operations in the eastern Donbas region.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – The British military believes more than a quarter of all troops Russia deployed for its war in Ukraine are now “combat ineffective.”

Russian forces are continuing to apply pressure in the Donbas following their switch in focus from the Kyiv (Kiev) region to Ukraine’s east and south, but British defence officials say counter-attacks are frustrating their progress.

LONDON (AP) – Russian forces have made no significant progress in the past 24 hours amid continuing supply problems and aggressive resistance from Ukrainian fighters, UK defence officials say.

The Ministry of Defence demanded earlier this week that YouTube remove footage of a Russian prankster prank calling their Defence Secretary.

Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government for the Royal Navy to take charge of the Channel migrant crisis are a failure before they have “even started”, a parliamentary committee has warned.

British government defence minister James Heappey has admitted that the Royal Navy will not be blocking migrant boats or making arrests as the Channel crisis continues unabated — but claims operations in the waterway are “already pretty successful”. 

The British Army has been tasked with building temporary migrant camps in Britain to house up to 30,000 illegal migrants from next month.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to double the number of women recruits in the military by 2030.

Footage leaked and reported by several British media outlets show a British F-35B fighter jet failing to take off from the supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and dropping into the Mediterranean.

Former British defence minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really should have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.