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The claim came from Kyiv government official Anton Gerashchenko The Kremlin has previously denied that Putin has a body double Ukraine claims Vladimir Putin will send a body double to host a huge military parade on Red Square on Tuesday due to a 'paranoid fear for his life'. The extraordinary claim came from Kyiv government official Anton Gerashchenko. 'Putin will not dare to appear at the parade on May 9, but will send a double,' he said. Rumours of Putin using doppelgängers - who have undergone plastic surgery to look like Putin - predate the war against Ukraine but have...

Ukraine used newly acquired American Patriot defense systems to shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv this week, its Air Force said Saturday. It marked the first known time that Ukraine has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles — and the first time Ukraine is known to have used the Patriot defense systems.

JUST IN: Ukraine confirms shot down drone over Kyiv was not a Russian drone but their own Ukrainian TB2 drone. “On May 4, around 20:00 in the Kyiv region, during a scheduled flight, the Bayraktar TB2 UAV lost control.” “Since the uncontrolled presence of UAVs in the sky of the capital could lead to undesirable consequences, it was decided to use mobile calculations...”

The Netherlands is working "intensively" with other European countries to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. However, there are no concrete commitments yet, as it turned out today at the joint press conference of Ukrainian President Zelensky, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Belgian Prime Minister De Croo in the Catshuis in The Hague. "There are no taboos and we are working intensively on it," said Rutte. "But we're not there yet". The three other countries are Belgium, the United Kingdom and Denmark...