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A half-year ago in the Oval Office, President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that “you don’t have the cards” in the war with Russia. On Tuesday at the United Nations, Trump lauded the performance of Ukraine’s army and poured scorn on Russia’s military efforts. “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump said on Truth Social after meeting with Zelensky. “Why not?” U.S. officials said that Trump issued the statement in part to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to make...

Vladimir Putin has lost at least 60 colonels in the war in Ukraine, it was revealed today. Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Moskvichev, 45, was buried with full military honours. A paratrooper, it took Russia three months to retrieve his body from the war zone and conduct his funeral, it was revealed. He was the 60th known colonel to have died in the bloody war, which has seen a crushing toll of high-ranking officers in Putin's forces, including at least 11 generals. The revelation of his death came as Putin declared he had hardly begun his military campaign in Ukraine. 'We haven't...