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A Russian fighter jet was scrambled to intercept with the air targets.

Russia scrambles fighter jet to intercept RAF Typhoons over Black Sea after nearing state border

The EU could block exports of weapons to the UK if a war breaks out with Russia

EU threatens to halt weapons and ammunition exports to UK if war breaks out with Russia

Germany accuses Russia of 'information war' following alleged military leak spilling UK military secrets to Kremlin

Germany accuses Russia of 'information war' following alleged leak spilling UK military secrets to Kremlin

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered an investigation into the leak

Germany ‘accidentally leaked British military secrets to Russia’, including that troops are ‘on the ground’ in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is planning to use 'private migrants' to move migrants across Europe, it's been claimed

Putin planning to 'destabilise' Europe by 'using private armies to send migrants to the continent'

Alexei Navalny's body handed to mother after 'three-hour ultimatum' over late Russian opposition figure's burial

Alexei Navalny's body was abused after his death, his wife Yulia claims, as she warns funeral 'may not be peaceful'

Alexei Navalny's body handed to mother after 'three-hour ultimatum' over late Russian opposition figure's burial

Funeral of Putin's enemy and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to take place in Moscow on Friday

A lawyer who represented 'murdered' Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been arrested in Moscow, Russian news has reported

Navalny's lawyer 'arrested in Moscow' after helping Russian opposition leader's mother obtain body from authorities

Grant Shapps

Vladimir Putin 'wants to kill again with Novichok poison in the UK', warns Defence Secretary Grant Shapps

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Sadiq Khan has called for Russian oligarchs' assets to be seized

Sadiq Khan calls for £1 billion of property owned by Russian oligarchs in London to be seized to fund 4,000 new homes

Alexei Navalny's body handed to mother after 'three-hour ultimatum' over late Russian opposition figure's burial

Alexei Navalny's body handed to mother after 'three-hour ultimatum' over late Russian opposition figure's burial

Vladimir Putin probably has Parkinson's, Sir Richard Dearlove has been told

Vladimir Putin 'has Parkinson's and there is something fundamentally wrong with him', ex-MI6 boss tells LBC

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Two years of turmoil: How British support has bolstered Ukraine to resist Russian invasion

Two years of turmoil: British support has bolstered Ukraine to resist Russian invasion, but more help is needed

Alexei Navalny's mother says she is being 'blackmailed' by the Kremlin

Alexei Navalny’s mother ‘blackmailed’ by Kremlin with threat to 'do something' to the corpse of Putin's arch enemy

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LBC has been speaking to the RAF

Russian jets ‘simulate bombing raids’ on Britain as RAF faces monthly scramble to defend UK airspace

Putin's Cod War

Putin's cod war: Russia tears up treaty that allowed UK trawlers to catch fish in Russian sea

Russian prison bosses at the Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was "detained and killed" have been banned from the UK and had their assets frozen

Russian bosses of Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was 'detained and killed' sanctioned by British government

Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to Ukraine, appears in a video released by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence agency in September 2023.

Russian defector gunned down in Spain 'contacted his ex' as body found riddled with bullets in underground car park