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British Defence Emails End Up in Russian Ally's Hands

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Summary: British Ministry of Defence (M.O.D) officials mistakenly sent emails meant for the Pentagon to Mali , a Russian ally . The error was due to confusion between the domain names 'dot mill' for Pentagon and 'dot ml' for Mali . A Dutch internet entrepreneur managing Mali 's domain name discovered the misdirected emails. Among the emails were sensitive details about British and American personnel working on hypersonic missiles . The M.O.D is investigating the extent of potential security breaches. With the contract end ing, concerns arise about the possible misuse of the misdirected emails. ...

Ukraine War: Is the defence of Bakhmut a distraction?

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Ukraine War: Is the defence of Bakhmut a distraction? I'm joined now by the former senior military intelligence officer, Philip Ingram. Good to see you again, Philip. Now, of course, Russian forces have made some advances in recent days in Bakhmut, but on the whole, there's been very little movement on the front line in recent weeks and months. Why is that? Yeah, well, exactly. Day 374 of Vladimir Putin's 10-day Special Military Operation. And the Russians, we keep talking about this spring offensive. They're probing the front lines in different places. Bakhmut will more detail that in a moment, but further north, up around Kramina and in the south, around Donetsk, they're trying to see where their weakness is in the Ukrainian defences. And they're not really finding any. The things that are influencing at the moment, the weather, the ground is softening up. ...

Russian infighting 'out of control' in Bakhmut

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Russian infighting 'out of control' in Bakhmut The agreement, the understanding is that Ukraine will not strike targets on Russian territory. Well, this is the grey area. I mean, yes, the UK is saying we don't want these weapons to be used to strike Russian territory, but it's interesting that US, for example, so far has been reluctant to offer anything of the range of storm shadow. Perhaps where that grey area is crystallised is Crimea, because Crimea is de facto Russian territory now, but of course it's regarded by the UK and Western Allies as part of Ukraine still. So one thinks that that would be seen as a legitimate target in Western capitals, although obviously the reaction from Moscow would probably be pretty strong. Yeah, and it is true over the weekend that a Russian military aircraft, a couple of helicopters, a bomber and a combat aircraft were shot down ...