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Euronews says THE FINNISH parliament amended its laws on Tuesday, to strengthen the fences along the country’s border with Russia, as the Nordic nation continues the process of joining NATO.

Russians take the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Russian forces pounded the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out…

Ukraine to regain control of Snake Island after Russians withdraw overnight. The Russian army said on Thursday that it had withdrawn from Snake Island, a…

BBC News says THE UK will provide an additional £1 billion in military aid for Ukraine, a near-doubling in its support for the fight against the Russian invasion.

A surge of Lithuanians sign up for border militia and taken arms against fears the Russians will invade the Baltics next because they don’t trust…

Aljazeera says RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has condemned NATO’s “imperial ambitions”, accusing the military alliance of seeking to assert its “supremacy” through the Ukraine conflict.

Norway blocks food supplies to Russians to which the Russian authorities demand a swift resolution or else feel the wrath of the Russian armed forces.…

The Metro says BORIS JOHNSON will send more British troops to Estonia to bolster Nato’s presence at the border with Russia.

The Guardian says WORLD LEADERS have denounced Russia’s deadly strike on a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk as “abominable” and a war crime.

Euronews says RUSSIAN TROOPS struck a shopping centre in Kremenchuk in the Poltava region with at least two missiles on Monday afternoon.

Daily Express says A MAJOR accident at a power plant sparked a blackout in a district of Russia, prompting an emergency response to be launched.

EU grants Ukraine candidate status after Macron, Sholz and Dragi visit Kyiv, Ukraine. The EU bloc announced EU candidate status earlier today. This is despite…

The Guardian says The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record for a Nobel.

The Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN’S “very limited success” in Ukraine has been exposed as the Russian Air Force “underperforms”, according to the latest British military intelligence report.

The Independent says the head of the UK’s armed forces says Russia has already “strategically lost” the war in Ukraine and is now a “more diminished power”.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin ‘hits the Botox quite heavily’ and looks like ‘he is trying to embalm himself while he’s still alive’, a defence and security analyst has suggested.

The Metro says a suspected Russian spy has been arrested at Gatwick Airport as he was about to leave the UK, according to reports.

Aljazeera says Moscow has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives, and defence figures from entering the country, the Russian foreign ministry said.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin’s health is in the spotlight once again after footage showed the 69-year-old’s legs buckling as he gives a speech.

Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN’S separatists have vowed to execute two captured British fighters facing the death sentence in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

The Sun says ONE of Vladimir Putin’s most loyal allies has claimed that the “Horsemen of the Apocalypse are on their way” as he warned the US not to supply Ukraine with weapons.

The Sun says RUSSIAN-backed thugs holding two British fighters captured in Ukraine forced them to call The Sun begging for their lives before their kangaroo court trial, we can now reveal.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin has been advised not to make long public appearances because he is unwell, it has been claimed.

BBC News says Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will speak with her Ukrainian counterpart about two Britons handed death sentences by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.

Arab News says workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol.