The United Kingdom must be ready to fight Russia in Ukraine, the British military chief said on Tuesday. Chief of General Staff Patrick Saunders said Russia was likely to be an even greater threat to European security after the war and that the military must be ready to fight to “prevent conflict”. “We are not at war, but we must act quickly so as not to be drawn into a war because of the failure to contain territorial expansion,” he said. He said the army should focus on boosting preparedness so that troops can deploy quickly, both in civil war and in rebuilding stocks. He described Britain’s choice until the “moment of 1937” as something that seemed to be a reference when Nazi leader Adolf Hitler invaded Austria. It comes as Russia has been accused of “cruel and barbaric” war crimes after 18 people were killed and more than 59 were injured in a rocket attack on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine.
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US seeks return of WNBA Greene star from Russia, Sullivan says
The United States is actively working to resolve the detention of WNBA star Britney Greener in Russia, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday, reiterating Washington’s call for Moscow to release her. “The United States Government is actively involved in resolving this issue and bringing Britney back home,” Sullivan told Air Force One, declining to give details. Ms Greener has been in custody since February and faces up to 10 years in prison after Russian officials claimed her luggage contained several cannabis oil vapor cartridges. A Russian court this week ordered Ms. Greiner to stand trial on Friday, the Associated Press and the Washington Post reported. Mr Sullivan, who is traveling with President Joe Biden to Spain ahead of a NATO summit, said he and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had both spoken with Serel Greener, his two-time Olympic wife. last days. “The Russian government should release her and allow her to return and be reunited with her family and return home safe and sound,” he said, reiterating that the US government had made it clear that Greeneer was being “” unjustly detained. ” is being held unjustly. “ (AFP / Getty) Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 15:52 1656426620
NATO says it does not consider China an adversary but is concerned about ties with Russia
NATO does not see China as an adversary, but is concerned about Beijing’s growing ties with Moscow following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. “We do not consider China an adversary,” Stoltenberg said on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid, adding that China would soon be the world’s largest economy and that NATO should work with Beijing on issues such as climate change. “But we are disappointed that China has not been able to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that China is spreading many of the false narratives about NATO, the West and also that China and Russia are closer now than ever. what they have never been before “, he added Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 15:30 1656425456
“It was hell,” Kremenchuk survivors describe deadly mall attack
Moscow said the mall was useless and empty at the time of the strike, a claim that is clearly refuted by injured survivors such as Ludmyla Mykhailets, 43, who was shopping there with her husband when the blast threw her into the air. “I flew with my head first and fragments hit my body. The whole place was collapsing,” he told a nearby public hospital where he was being treated. “It was hell,” said her husband, Mykola, 45, with blood running through a bandage around his head. Exhausted firefighters sat on a curb next to another wall of the mall. Others lay on a grassy mound, smoking and scrolling through their phones. “We removed five bodies. We did not find anyone alive,” said a firefighter who gave his name only as Oleksandr. Outside the hospital, a small group of mall workers were filled with anxiety and sadness, as well as relief. Hearing an air raid siren, they were on their way to a nearby basement when the rockets hit, said Roman, 28, who asked to be identified by a single name. He added that many others had stayed inside as the mall management had allowed the shops to remain open three days ago during the air raid sirens. Many Ukrainians have stopped responding to the most regular warning sirens, as strikes occur less frequently outside of war-torn eastern Ukraine. Back in the intensive care unit, Julia, a 21-year-old woman covered in deep cuts, said Monday was her first day working in one of the mall’s stores. (EPA) Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 15:10 1656423667
Russia’s Lavrov says Western arms supplies prolong conflict
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the more Western countries sent weapons to Ukraine, the longer the conflict would last. Russia has repeatedly accused the West of prolonging the conflict, which Moscow calls a “special military operation,” and has targeted rocket attacks on weapons depots stockpiling weapons supplied to Kyiv by the United States and Europe. Speaking at a news conference during a visit to Turkmenistan, Lavrov said Russia had not targeted a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Monday, where at least 18 people were killed in a Russian strike. Echoing a statement issued by the Russian Defense Ministry earlier on Tuesday, Lavrov told reporters that the mall was empty at the time of the fire as a result of a Russian fire at a weapons depot storing Western weapons next to the mall. Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 14:41 1656421820
Russia wants the surrender of Ukraine, says Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron told the G7 summit that Russia had one goal in mind – the surrender of Ukraine. “Right now, it is clear that Russia’s attack on Ukrainian territory has one goal – the surrender of Ukraine,” Macron said. Speaking at the end of the G-7 summit in Germany, Macron seemed to address this concern, pledging that the seven industrialized democracies would support Ukraine and maintain sanctions against Russia “as long as necessary and with the necessary intensity.” “Russia cannot and must not win,” he said, adding that Monday’s attack on the mall was “a new war crime.” (REUTERS) Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 14:10 1656420620
We could be next: Frightened Baltic states urge NATO to send more troops ahead of Madrid summit
On the eve of the NATO summit, the Baltic states urge the military alliance to increase the number of troops destined to defend Europe’s corner against Russia to 25,000, after Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg promised a “major overhaul of the collective deterrence and defense against the Cold War. “ At the top of the agenda at the Madrid meeting, which begins in earnest on Wednesday, is Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which has sparked a geopolitical shift, pushing the once-neutral countries Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership. Read more below from our international correspondent, Bel Trew: Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 13:50 1656419234
36 are still missing after a Russian strike killed 18
Firefighters and soldiers searched Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of a Ukrainian shopping mall, where authorities say 36 people are still missing after a Russian missile struck that killed at least 18 people. Relatives of the missing lined up on Tuesday at a hotel across from the wreckage of the mall, where rescue teams had set up a base. Exhausted firefighters sat on a curb after a night of battling the flames, searching for survivors, mostly in vain. Oleksandr, wetting his face from a bottle of water on a bench, said his team worked all night collecting rubble. “We removed five bodies. We did not find anyone alive,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in an attack on the central Ukrainian town of Kremenchuk, far from the front line. He called it “one of the most provocative terrorist attacks in European history.” Russia says the incident was caused by a strike on a legitimate military target. The Ministry of Defense told him that it fired missiles at a weapons depot for western weapons, where an explosion of ammunition caused a fire in the nearby shopping center. (Press Service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Reuters) Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 13:27 1656417620
A Russian court has sentenced an opposition politician to 15 days in prison
A Moscow court has sentenced prominent Russian opposition politician Ilya Yassin to 15 days in prison on Tuesday for disobeying a police officer. Yasin, a member of parliament for Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district, was arrested on Monday. “The case against me is a forgery, I am innocent,” Yashin told the Telegram social networking site, linking his detention to his political activities. Yashin is an outspoken critic of Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, which he calls a “special military operation.” Thomas Kingsley28 June 2022 13:00 1656416420
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Boris Johnson says he does not believe Britain will end up at war with Russia
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that he did not believe that Britain would end up in a war with Russia. Asked if Britain was preparing for war with Russia, he told reporters at the G7 summit: “I do not think it will come to that and we are clearly working very hard to ensure that we limit it to Ukraine.” It comes as the new British army chief, Patrick Saunders, says Britain must be ready to fight Russia as the threat of war grows. He added that the Kremlin would be an even greater threat to European security after the war and that the military must be ready to fight to “prevent conflict”. “We are not at war, but we must act quickly so as not to be drawn into a war because of the failure to contain territorial expansion,” he said. He…
