Dominic Nicholls

Dominic Nicholls, Tom Cotterill Britain must stop relying on the United States for defence, the Armed Forces minister has said.

“Who is going to deploy? How long can we afford to deploy our troops? What does it mean for our Estonia deployment? What does it mean for everything else?

Members of Ukraine's resistance movement work best in the shadows. Orchestrating mass poisonings and car bombings is a high-risk strategy in occupied Ukraine , where Kremlin cameras monitor their every move.

Army medics have parachuted into Tristan da Cunha island in the South Atlantic to treat a British person with hantavirus

Zaporizhia, a city on the Dnieper river in south-eastern Ukraine, is home to Khortytsia island , a former Cossack stronghold. That historic warrior spirit persists.

Russia has issued an arrest warrant for Britain's former defence secretary. Moscow's Basmanny district court sentenced Sir Ben Wallace in absentia on charges of “justifying terrorism ”.

In disused tunnels hidden below central London, a Nato headquarters is directing troops in a simulated war with Russia

In disused tunnels hidden below central London, a Nato headquarters is directing troops in a simulated war with Russia.

To the voiceless, cowed men below, the freedom of the Ukrainian flag dancing above them in the breeze is a constant reminder of their own captivity.

The last time a Russian ship fired on a British vessel in home waters was during the Dogger Bank incident of 1904.