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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Russia has gathered 50,000 troops near Ukraine's northern Sumy region, but added that Kyiv had taken steps to prevent Moscow from conducting a large-scale offensive there. The build-up comes as Russia appears to be gearing up for a summer offensive in Ukraine while Kyiv waits for Moscow to present a memorandum laying out its conditions to proceed with ceasefire talks. Sumy lies across the border from Russia's Kursk region where Ukraine previously seized and held a pocket of land for months, before being almost fully pushed out last month, although it says it...

THIS is the dramatic moment Ukrainian forces obliterate four of Mad Vlad's military helicopters inside a hidden Russian airstrip. Extraordinary aerial footage showed four choppers worth £68million combined being decimated by US-made missiles in the Belgorod region. In the tense video footage, Russian choppers are spotted and located by the overhead camera. The enemy vehicles are highlighted, before laser-fast strikes rain down and demolish them. Large explosions can be seen as they are spectacularly obliterated one at a time. Kyiv's military said that they had destroyed two Mi-8 and two Ka-52s helicopters.

There are few things lower than harassing an innocent child, but a group of pro-Ukraine protesters angry at Vice-President JD Vance crossed that line today. Vance revealed on X Saturday afternoon that while he was enjoying a walk with his three-year-old daughter, these protesters decided to stalk them and shout at his little girl. Their sick antics understandably terrified her. “Today while walking my 3-year-old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared,” Vance wrote.

PUTIN is said to have ordered the deadly 16,000mph Satan 2 to be battle-ready sparking fears of a major escalation in the war. The threatening move sees the killer nuclear capable RS-28 Sarmat - dubbed "the world’s deadliest weapon" - being on "combat duty." It was announced by Russian state news agency Tass despite testing failures and delays. Head of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, Col-Gen Sergei Karakayev said that work continues to place the missile on “combat duty,” Tass reported. He said: "As of today, fifth-generation Yars and Avangard missile systems have been introduced in the strategic missile forces. "Work...