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invasion of Ukraine has been described as a mere "rehearsal" for a far bigger World War by an analyst on Russian state TV. Professor Alexei Fenenko, a leading research fellow at the Institute of International Security Studies, teased that this future conflict may be against NATO.

Ukrainian minors on the front line, according to a British diplomat. Dame Barbara Woodward, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, has claimed that Russian troops have been found to have “raped” young children during the invasion of Ukraine.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“Good Morning America” eked out a victory on a different battlefield in TV’s ongoing morning-news wars.The ABC News program typically wins the biggest audience among morning-news programs, while NBC News rival “Today” typically dominated in the critical category of viewers between 25 and 54 — the demographic that governs how much advertisers pay for each show. Last week, however, “GMA” prevailed in both, the first time in more than four months that it has done so.“It’s an incredible win as we deal with the challenges of still broadcasting and working during a pandemic,” says Simone Swink, executive producer of “Good Morning America.” “Our team remains laser-focused on delivering the best straightforward, relevant and engaging news.

Ukraine's sinking of Russia's flagship vessel and denied having any involvement. It comes after US officials previously alleged that Pentagon provided intel that helped Ukraine identify and strike the Moska last month.

Ukraine with "lightning-fast" weapons that Russia "won't brag about" in a bizarre speech. Defence expert and academic Michael Clarke has responded to fears over whether Russia could use nuclear weapons, saying that the Russian leader is closer than he once was to pulling the nuclear trigger.Clarke downplayed worries over hidden weaponry, citing rather public testing and boasting of Sarmat nuclear missiles, but has said nations are on full alert amid growing concerns over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Clarke claimed that the Pentagon "will not be taken by surprise" in Putin's claims, saying that Putin was "exploiting" his unpredictable nature to "scare the West into giving him a free hand in Ukraine".

This year, April 16, marked the 276th anniversary of one of the most famous battles ever fought in Scotland.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNetflix shows “Vikings: Valhalla” and “Worst Roommate Ever” both racked up more than 1 billion minutes watched during the week of Feb. 28-March 6, per Nielsen’s newly released Top 10 streaming rankings.

Ukraine. Russell Bentley, nicknamed "Tex" on the battlefield, 61, travelled to Donetsk to "kill the Nazis," or Ukrainian militants, that set fire to a Trade Unions House where pro-Russian militants were sheltering in Odessa, Ukraine earlier that year.At the beginning of this month he went viral after sharing footage of himself on "the front line" with Russian troops marching through the Donbas.Bentley told Newsweek of his journey to the volatile region: "I had a great job, I had a great girlfriend, I had a great life.

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Marta Balaga Returning barely six months after its 2021 edition, which wrapped in September, French TV festival Series Mania welcomed Jury President Julia Sinkevych,who arrived in Lille from war-torn Ukraine.“I didn’t know if I would be lucky enough to be here tonight,” said Sinkevych to a standing ovation, with Laurence Herszberg, Series Mania general director, observing that culture cannot be insensitive to what is happening.“The whole world is now admiring our resistance, the resistance of the Ukrainian people. But there is another battlefield, which is culture, and I want us to be noticed, recognized and admired on the cultural battlefield, too,” added Sinkevych.“This [conflict] has been going on for a long time and there have been many episodes in this TV series.

Russia has been quietly working on high-tech war machines for some years and could be preparing to introduce even more of them to the conflict.The Russian army has previously trialled 'active powered' exoskeletons which can be strapped to soldiers to give them lethal cyborg powers.The electric suits are designed to augment and enhance troops. They can help soldiers carry much heavier loads and can even give machine guns deadly accuracy over long-distances.Oleg Faustov, from Russian Army defence contractor TsNiiTochMash, said the suits will make ordinary human servicemen far more lethal.He said: "We have already held trials for the prototype of the active exoskeleton.

Vladimir Putin are crumbling – but this time it's those INSIDE Russia who are pulling away from him. Top Russian separatist leader Bolaen Sires, who describes himself as the leader of the Erzyas people of Mordovia has issued a plea for Russians to turn on their home country and sabotage attempts to further the invasion into Ukraine.

The diet of the invading Russian army has been revealed after Ukrainian troops seized a fully-stocked battlefield kitchen.

invading Ukraine has been revealed, after soldiers defending the besieged country conquered a battlefield kitchen.Video taken by Ukrainian soldiers was posted on Reddit overnight showing a huge KamAZ armoured vehicle kitted out with a professional kitchen onboard.But its the contents of the cupboards – and floor – which has shocked internet users. The footage gives a tour of the vehicle, captured in Ukraine, which was seemingly left during fighting in recent weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has joked that Russian forces are now a "supplier of equipment for our army" as he claimed their troops are fleeing the battlefield and leaving equipment behind.In a video address on Tuesday morning (March 15) he appealed directly to soldiers in the invading Russian army to surrender themselves as a final "chance to live". Speaking directly to the camera in a casual khaki-coloured hoodie and t-shirt, he said: “Their soldiers know it.

Vladimir Putin has deployed a "Red Lipstick Army" in a bid to justify his Ukraine invasion. The Russian leader has recruited a battalion of glamorous spokeswomen to take away the hard edges’ of battlefield brutality such as last week’s bombing of a maternity hospital.

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov, the high-profile Russian-Kazakh director who is credited as the creator of the Screenlife genre with projects including Searching and Unfriended, has condemned the “tragedy” in Ukraine and is working on a project analyzing the digital aspects of the conflict.

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s newest special report for Deadline, the seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author is still in Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin’s invasion is turning increasingly brutal & resistance is intensifying.

Ukraine in as many days as the stalled Russian advance has resulted in desperate attempts by commanders to restore momentum. One military source said: “They are trying to impose their personality on the battlefield and putting themselves at personal risk.”The news of Zhoga’s death was announced via Telegram by pro-Russian separatist Denis Pushilin.Pushilin claimed that Zhoga had been shot while attempting to evacuate civilians from Volnovakha – a small city in the contested region of Donetsk where Russian troops violated a ceasefire agreement on Saturday.According to Pushilin, Zhoga “died like a hero”.He commanded the Sparta Battalion, who began fighting against the Ukrainian government several years before the start of the Russian invasion, and is thought to have been responsible for a number of vicious atrocities, including the murder of several Ukrainian prisoners of war.In April 2015, Amnesty International Denis Krivosheev blamed the group's then leader Arsen Pavlov for the torture and “execution-style killings” of at least four captured Ukrainian soldiers.Amnesty said at the time: “Summary killings are a war crime, plain and simple.

Russia "doesn't care about killing civilians" and could use the full might of its battlefield nukes to wreak devastation on Ukraine.Military analyst Justin Crump, who is CEO of Sibylline Ltd, told BBC News Russia began the invasion with the "wrong mindset" and we could now see a change in tactics.The expert also warned Russia could arm its giant 2S7 Pion heavy artillery – that boasts guns equal in size to the ones on HMS Belfast – with nuclear ammunition.In the interview on Friday (March 4) he says: "They came in for what they thought was a peacekeeping task and I think they were told civilians would be laying down flowers in front of their tanks – obviously that didn't happen."That's not really how the Russian military is optimised to work, it's designed to be a brutal weapon, and they have moved to that now."The way they are looking at things is much more dangerous now. They haven't got as far as deliberately targeting civilians but they don't care if civilians are in the way."Describing how Russia could ramp up its aggression, he continues: "Things like the 2S7 artillery piece, it's the largest piece in the Russian arsenal, it's the biggest vehicle they have, about the size of one of the guns of HMS Belfast."It's a naval gun, essentially, on a land platform and they upgraded them in 2019, we're beginning to think there may have been a reason for that.

With Russia invading Ukraine, the world's attention turns to that of nuclear war.