Molly Blackall
Global Affairs Correspondent at The i Paper
Global affairs correspondent @theipaper, proud manc. Formerly @guardian. Views, for better or worse, my own. ✉️ [email protected]
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1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | Molly Blackall
“We don’t have a chance if we sign something. Absolutely not,” says Alik*, a soldier on Ukraine’s front line. “There is a much bigger picture. If we give them Luhansk and Donetsk, after a week Russia will attack again. What then? What will we do?”Alik was a young professional before the war began. Now he serves on the battlefield against Russia’s invasion, which has already lasted more than three years.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Molly Blackall
The UK has launched airstrikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen overnight, the first under Keir Starmer’s leadership. The Royal Air Force used Typhoon fighter jets to hit a “cluster of buildings” that the Houthis had allegedly been using to manufacture attack drones. The air force fired Paveway IV, a laser-guided “smart” bomb described as the “RAF pilot’s precision weapon of choice”, to hit their targets south of the capital.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Molly Blackall
“If Kamala [Harris] wins, only death and destruction await, because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace,” a buoyant Donald Trump told crowds at an election rally in Michigan last year. “I am peace.”Since returning to the White House Trump has pledged to end the violence in Ukraine and Gaza, and reduce the involvement of US troops and resource overseas.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Molly Blackall
The mayor of Kyiv has said that Ukraine may need to temporarily give up land to secure a peace deal with Russia. US-brokered negotiations over a ceasefire appear to have stalled, and the White House has threatened to withdraw from the talks if they do not yield results. Donald Trump has blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for holding up talks, saying Russia is “ready” to make a deal despite it repeatedly rejecting a full ceasefire and continuing missile attacks.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Molly Blackall
Russian missiles breached British air defences during a simulation replicating attacks on Ukraine, a top official has revealed in a warning that the UK must prepare for attacks on home soil. Britain’s top military wargamers replicated Russia’s attacks on Ukraine on the first night of the 2022 invasion and the outcome was “not a pretty picture”.
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