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Ukraine make key strategic gains against weak Russia defence
Ukrainian forces have retaken a number of key strategic towns from Russia’s forces, as they push even deeper into occupied territory around the eastern city of Kharkiv and towards Luhansk.
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Ben Wallace calls for higher defence spending
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has described Russia as “very, very dangerous on the world stage” – as he called for the UK to raise defence spending by the middle of the decade.
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Former Ukrainian Defence Minister: ‘We need equipment. Our soldiers are still fighting’
Channel 4 News spoke to the former Ukrainian defence minister Andrii Zahorodniuk, who is now chairman of a thinktank called the Centre for Defence Strategies.
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‘Loads of organisational issues’ in early days of war, says former Ukrainian defence minister
We spoke to Andriy Zagorodnyuk, the former Ukrainian defence minister.
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UK to supply Ukraine with armoured vehicles, defence secretary says
Britain’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the Kramatorsk attack bears all the hallmarks of a war crime.
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No one will be held accountable for alleged war crimes, says former defence advisor
We were joined by retired colonel and former defence advisor to Ukraine Liam Collins, who helped train and reform Ukraine’s military between 2016 and 2018.
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Defence secretary visits Norway as Nato conducts exercises with 30,000 troops
While the war has escalated, Nato has trodden a path between supplying military hardware to Ukraine while avoiding being drawn into military action itself.
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Turkey negotiations unlikely to resolve Russian invasion, says former Ukrainian defence minister
We’re joined by former Ukrainian defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk.
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Kyiv ‘like apocalypse movie’, says Ukraine’s defence minister
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has seen some of the most intense fighting – as Russian forces edge closer to the centre.
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‘What we’ve seen are horrible war crimes’, says former Ukrainian defence minister
We spoke to Ukraine’s former defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk, and began by asking what he says to those tens of thousands of ordinary Ukrainian citizens who are spending yet another night in their bunkers.
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‘The prospect of war in Europe is very, very real‘, says Defence Select Committee chair
A short time ago I spoke to the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, he’s chair of the Commons Defence Committee and is at the summit in Munich.
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False flag operations ‘absolutely possible’, says former Ukraine defence minister
We spoke to former Ukraine defence minister Andrii Zahorodniuk, and asked him whether suggestions from American intelligence of an imminent invasion are nonsense.
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace cuts holiday short over Ukraine crisis
Britain’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has cut short his family skiing holiday while comparing the failure of some western nations to stand up to the Russians, to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in 1938.
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Russia ‘will try everything to avoid’ war with Ukraine, says Russia defence expert
We spoke to Fyodor Lukyanov, the chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, which advises the Kremlin, and began by asking him what he expects Russia’s next move is likely to be.
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President Biden ‘minor incursion’ Ukraine gaffe ‘major problem’, says former Trump defence chief
We spoke to Elbridge Colby, former deputy assistant secretary of defence under the Trump administration.