Former armed forces minister James Heappey stressed that the West ‘had the intelligence’ about Putin’s invasion launched in February 2022

In just the first year following the invasion, on February 24, 2022, Russian losses, both killed and wounded, exceeded the total Soviet losses in any conflict since WW2.

Pro-Ukrainian hackers have delivered an unwelcome birthday message for President Vladimir Putin after an ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack hit Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, which was taken offline by the incident. Some report have claimed Russia’s court systems were also affected, and court documents and decisions have been wiped.