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Russia launches missile strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv in Southern Ukraine in response to sabotage bombings of military facilities in Crimea.
2022-08-17

Russia says that on Friday it used the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile for the first time in Ukraine to destroy a weapons storage facility in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
2022-03-19

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges sanctions on Russia before a potential invasion occurs.
2022-02-19

Russia reports 432 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, raising its nationwide death toll to 31,593. It is first time that the country has reported more than 400 deaths and is also a new single-day record for that figure since the pandemic began.
2020-11-11

A 40 ha grass fire breaks out at Chobham Common in Surrey, England, as the southeast experiences soaring temperatures.
2020-08-7

A large scale international cyber-attack using the WannaCry ransomware package disrupts computer and telephone systems in thousands of cases across 99 countries. Affected organisations include: England's NHS, with doctors reporting messages demanding money; MegaFon and Sberbank in Russia; Telefónica, Iberdrola, and Gas Natural in Spain; and FedEx.
2017-05-12

Three people are killed in an attack on check post in Eastern Ukraine manned by pro-Russian supporters.
2014-04-20

A post-mortem examination finds Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's death was "consistent with hanging", after the examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle or involvement of another party.
2013-03-26

Britain's top GCHQ code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon that was found in a chimney in Surrey, England, with a message from World War II attached.
2012-11-23

The Metropolitan Police in London, England launch an investigation into the death of reggae musician Smiley Culture in a police raid in Surrey.
2011-03-15