Frank Gardner

3 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Frank Gardner |Paul Kirby

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will travel to Turkey’s capital Ankara to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will be available for direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Istanbul on Thursday. “We will do everything to ensure that this meeting takes place,” he told reporters in a hastily-arranged briefing. Russia has not yet said who will fly to Istanbul, only that it would be announced “as soon as [President Putin] deems it necessary”.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Frank Gardner |Paul Kirby

10 hours ago The art of spoiling Trump's deal: Sit back and wait It seems to have been going on much longer, but it has been only one month since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he did his big reset on the world’s economy by raising tariffs on goods exported to this country to 10 percent, with higher “reciprocal” tariffs of up to 50 percent on 57 … 1 hour ago Ukraine Spy Chief: ‘Neither Putin Nor His Double’ Expected at Turkey Talks The Kremlin has remained silent for a third...

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Frank Gardner |Jessica Rawnsley

Ukraine says it has uncovered a spy network being run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about its defences near their shared border. Ukraine's security service said it had detained two alleged Hungarian spies who it accused of gathering intelligence. "For the first time in Ukraine's history, the Security Service has exposed a Hungarian military intelligence network that was conducting espionage activities to the detriment of our state," the SBU said.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Frank Gardner |Emily Coady-Stemp |South East

Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain's most valuable spy in living memory inside Russia's intelligence agencies. Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious. He died peacefully at his home in Surrey, the BBC understands. Gordievsky, a colonel in Russia's KGB, spent many years as a double agent, passing vital intelligence to both Britain's MI6 and MI5.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Frank Gardner |Ian Aikman

The UK is hosting a closed meeting on Thursday of senior military officers from the "coalition of the willing" as they draw up plans for a proposed peacekeeping force for Ukraine. More than 20 countries are thought to be involved. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to attend on Thursday afternoon after first visiting Barrow, where he is due to lay the keel of one of Britain's next generation of nuclear-armed submarines.