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Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters

Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the ChannelThe Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged.The “intense” 72-hour operation took place last week, with radars used to monitor four ships that made their way from the North Sea through to the Channel. Continue reading...

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Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

Ukrainian prosecutors open investigation into why munitions were stored so close to residential buildingsAt least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs that was storing “explosive objects”.The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire and explosions in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region. The regional governor, Tymur Tkachenko, said a further 42 people, including four children, had been injured in the strike. Continue reading...

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Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based projectThe next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as she becomes the 13th figure to contribute to the Future Library project.Anderson joins Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Ocean Vuong and other prominent authors who have written secret manuscripts, which have been locked away until 2114. Continue reading...

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Love under anti-drone nets: Ukrainian couple wed in Kramatorsk combat zone

‘At a time when Russia is trying to spread gloom and darkness … it is important to create something beautiful,’ says combat medic Tetiana as she weds army captain OleksandrIn the bright early afternoon sun of Kramatorsk’s central and now ironically named Peace Square, Tetiana, in her bridal dress, and Oleksandr, in his military uniform, are holding up their phones at the ready. It is a public holiday, 35 years since Ukraine’s declaration of independence, and a popular day for a wedding, though the open-air location is not obviously ideal.Three days earlier, Kramatorsk, perhaps Vladimir Putin’s principal target, was formally designated part of the combat zone, the front inching towards the city as Russia closes in on the parts of the Donetsk region it does not control. It is quiet at 2pm though; the ceremony brief. There are no guests other than the Guardian team.Tetiana and Oleksandr pose for a wedding photo on Mount Karachun, near Sloviansk, the scene of fierce fighting in 2014. Continue reading...

The Guardian 10 hours ago

Sovereignty, farming and fishing: Iceland votes on its future with the EU

Country holds a knife-edge referendum that cuts across political divides on taking step closer to Brussels after Trump threats towards GreenlandFor a long time, the prospect of becoming the third generation to run his family farm was an exciting one, says Davíð Clausen Pétursson.Icelandic farmers were starting to get higher prices for their meat and milk, debt was no longer an occupational prerequisite and innovation was on the rise. Continue reading...

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‘Winter panic’: EU gas stores at their lowest level in 13 years

As one of Europe’s biggest consumers of gas the UK may be particularly exposed to heightened price volatilityEurope is on course to enter the cooler months with gas stores at their lowest level in 13 years, which has triggered “winter panic” among energy traders, experts have warned.The EU’s gas stocks were 63% full in the last week of August, well below the 80% average for late August over recent years and among the lowest levels ever recorded for this time of year. Continue reading...

The Guardian 11 hours ago

Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown

Former PM believes Northern Ireland will leave UK in the long term – but remains opposed to Scottish independence‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and his vision for a better BritainThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future, in a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian.While he added that any union would necessarily be “a long process” and based on mutual agreement, Brown’s comments are notable both because of his vehement opposition to Scottish independence, but also because of his involvement in government in efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. Continue reading...

The Guardian 11 hours ago

‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić

Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasiveTo most of the world, he was and will always be the “Butcher of Bosnia”, a grim epithet but one that still fails to fully convey the evil and horror inflicted on its people by Gen Ratko Mladić, who died in prison on Thursday.As commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, Mladić was responsible for the killing of an estimated 100,000 men, women and children during the savage breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He was most notoriously the architect of ethnic cleansing and the genocide at Srebrenica in which at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered. Continue reading...

The Guardian 12 hours ago

Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy orders military to triple daily long-range strikes on Russia

Kyiv to ramp up attacks; Russian gasoline production drops after drone strikes; Fedorov joins Italy’s defence ministry. What we know on day 1,648⁠Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ⁠​he has ⁠ordered his military to increase its ⁠long-range ​drone ‌strikes ‌against Russia to ‌1,000 per day, up from about 300 currently. “There ‌needs to be more: ​there is a concrete goal, ⁠and we will fulfil ​this ​task,” the Ukrainian president ​declared ​on Friday in ‌his ​evening address.Russia’s ⁠gasoline production fell ​to about 70% of domestic consumption levels by the end of August after a series of drone attacks forced major refineries to suspend operations, according to two ⁠industry sources who spoke to Reuters. After a brief respite at the end of July, when some local authorities ​began easing or lifting restrictions on fuel sales, shortages ‌returned to Russian regions in ‌August. Over the past week, drones ‌struck and halted operations at several major refineries, including plants in Perm, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl, all significant producers of motor gasoline.Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said. While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the past two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured, Peter Walker writes.Recent Russian air attacks have destroyed about 90% of retailers’ food logistics in Ukraine, ⁠Kyiv’s agricultural minister said on Friday. Both countries have stepped up strikes in recent weeks on economic targets such as major retailers, with Russia targeting warehouses for ⁠Ukraine’s premier supermarket chains, ⁠top postal service and home-goods ​stores. “As of today, roughly speaking, 90% of food logistics operated by retail chains have been destroyed, but that doesn’t mean Ukrainians will be left without food,” farm minister Taras Vysotskyi was cited by ⁠the Ukrinform agency as saying. His comments to reporters in Kyiv are the most frank official assessment of the damage Russia’s escalating strikes have brought on Ukraine’s increasingly fragile economy in the fifth year of war.Ukraine has stored ⁠14.6bn cubic metres ​of gas ⁠in underground storage, enough ⁠for ​the upcoming ‌winter ‌season, the ‌country’s energy minister said. “Ukraine has stockpiled ‌natural gas for ​the baseline scenario for getting ⁠through the ​winter,” Denys ​Shmyhal ​said ​on Friday.Authorities ⁠in Russia’s Rostov region ⁠declared a ⁠state ​of emergency on Friday, ⁠saying port closures and disruptions ⁠to navigation ​in ‌the ‌Azov-Black Sea basin had ‌led to a significant accumulation of agricultural products at farms. The ‌regional government said on ​Telegram an emergency response had been introduced ⁠across the ​region, without ​going into ​more detail.Ukraine’s former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has ⁠accepted a role as innovation adviser at Italy’s Defence Ministry, officials said ⁠on ​Friday. Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto had disclosed the offer shortly after Fedorov ⁠was dismissed in July. Fedorov, 35, was fired six months after his appointment, having ​initiated reforms around procurement and mobilisation that put him on a collision course with the military establishment and political rivals.The UN nuclear ⁠watchdog said on Friday it had ⁠been informed ⁠of ​three drone incidents at Russian-held Zaporizhzhia ⁠nuclear power plant in south-eastern Ukraine ⁠earlier this week. The International ​Atomic ‌Energy Agency said a drone attack ‌on 25 August reportedly occurred near the plant’s cooling pond, injuring two plant employees, ‌while two other drones on 26 August ​reportedly struck the site’s dry spent nuclear fuel storage area ⁠and the sprinkling ​device of ​the power ​units system. Radiation levels at ​the ‌Zaporizhzhia ​plant ​remained normal, the watchdog added.Russian forces on Friday resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said. Russian strikes in the Kyiv region damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said Friday. Continue reading...

The Guardian 15 hours ago

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