Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it has managed to strike the Crimea bridge with underwater explosives following an operation lasting “several months”. The SBU said its agents had “mined the supports” of the bridge with 1,100kg of explosives which “severely damaged” the bottom level of the supports. The “first explosive device” was activated early Tuesday...
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Getty Images Vladimir Putin initially denied having anything to do with Russia’s capture of Crimea in February 2014, when mysterious masked commandos in unidentified green uniforms seized the local parliament and fanned out across the peninsula. Those “little green men” marked the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, which culminated...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a crowd in Washington the UK was ready to cut tariffs on US car imports, saying “we are not going to rush a deal”, the Financial Times reports. This comes ahead of the chancellor meeting her American counterpart, Scott Bessent, and after a sharp rise in global markets with hopes tied...
