All news on the topic: Soldiers

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Prince Harry admits not all soldiers 'necessarily' agreed with Afghanistan war
Prince Harry has opened up about his time as a soldier in Afghanistan, admitting that there were some troops who didn't 'necessarily agree or disagree' with the conflict
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Thousands race to flee 'almost destroyed' Ukrainian city amid heavy fighting
Around 4,000 Ukrainian citizens are now stranded in the eastern city of Bakhmut, which has been described as 'almost destroyed' by deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko
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Row erupts over who was to blame for naval disaster that killed 56 in Falklands
The captain of one of the ships attacked during the Falklands War Bluff Cove disaster in 1982 has hit out at claims made in a new book by a former Welsh Guards officer who survived the air raid
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Vladimir Putin plans 'mass suicidal attacks' on Ukrainians for three months
Russian forces are resorting to "mass suicidal attacks" on Ukrainians, effectively sending hundreds of soldiers over the frontline for minimal military gains but as a massive cost in Russian lives
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Mum who was 'high on meth 24/7' shares how she turned her life around
Natalee King, from Florida, US, spent time in prison for drug-driving and suffered with depression after her late husband was crushed to death a truck during a tragic training accident in 2013
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Kate beams in red as she and William brush off Meghan and Harry eviction drama
Kate Middleton and Prince William joined the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at Combermere Barracks, in Windsor to mark St David's Day as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly face eviction
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Dad from iconic station goodbye pic says it's still 'too painful' to talk about
Ruslan ­Gladkiy says he feels it is still too painful to talk about the moment he said goodbye to his family at Lviv train station, one of the most powerful images of the Ukraine war
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Vladimir Putin's £274million spy plane 'destroyed by drones' in airbase attack
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's military planes was 'significantly damaged' by Belarus partisans supporting Ukraine, at an airbase in Belarus, it is reported
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Soldiers fired for fighting can rejoin Army in move that 'smacks of desperation'
Soldiers fired for theft and failing drugs tests can also rejoin the British Army, which is currently around 3,000 troops understrength, with latest figures showing more troops are leaving the Armed Forces than joining
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Inside Putin's torture chamber as his troops accused of nearly 90,000 war crimes
Ukrainian victims of Russian war crimes have recounted the disturbing levels of violence inflicted upon them by Vladimir's Putin's men - with one man alleging he was held for days and electrocuted
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7 key events in Ukraine war from Russia's civilian massacre to bridge explosion
It has been 12 months since Vladimir Putin told the Russian people that Moscow's troops would be sweeping through neighbouring Ukraine to "denazify" and "demilitarise" Kyiv, to keep it in "Russia's sphere of influence"
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Bus driver who quit job to help in Ukraine amazed by acts of kindness at border
Bus driver Dave Wise, 46, has driven from East Sussex to Ukraine three times in the last year to deliver vital aid to refugees and pets in need, witnessing both heartbreaking and moving sights at the border
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Hundreds of desperate Ukrainian children saved by Labour peer who fled Nazis
Refugee campaigner Lord Alf Dubs – himself evacuated as a child from Nazi Germany via the ­Kindertransport - began raising Valya Pylypenko’s case to then Home Secretary Priti Patel, in the House of Lords, to news outlets and to civil servants
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5 times Russia broke international law from grim torture to lung-busting bomb
Friday marks one year since tyrant Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops cross the border into Ukraine in one of the 21st century's most destructive and vicious military invasions
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Nicola Bulley mural artist unveils wall painting in tragic mum's home town
Street artist Danny Bench was friends with Nicola Bulley's sister at school and created a mural for the tragic mum in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, where she grew up
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Ben Stiller defends Tropic Thunder and says he's 'proud' despite blackface row
Ben Stiller, who directed and appeared in the controversial 2007 film Tropic Thunder which also starred Robert Downey Jr. in blackface, has said he is still 'proud' of the movie despite the huge backlash
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Prince Harry slammed by Ben Wallace for 'boasting' over his Taliban killings
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has criticised Prince Harry for "boasting" about his kill count in Afghanistan in his memoir Spare and claimed he had let down his former Army colleagues
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Face-to-face with Vlad's feared killers who say: 'We are at war with the UK'
The Mirror's Defence Editor Chris Hughes meets two of Vladimir Putin's feared Wagner Group mercenary fighters held in Ukraine in a World-first exclusive interview
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Vladimir Putin fills stadium with 'loyalists' bribed with day off work
Vladimir Putin stepped on to the concert stage at a Moscow sports arena today as he claimed the Kremlin's forces are fighting to capture "historic frontiers" so he can protect their "interests, people, culture, language and territory"
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Treasure hunter uses map left by his father to find buried silver after 80 years
Jan Glazewski dug up the silver treasure buried as his family fled World War Two using a treasure map drawn by his own father, Gustaw
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Former soldier's flash of inspiration that led to incredible 12,000-mile journey
Former soldier Christian Lewis was struggling with depression and facing homelessness when he had a flash of inspiration that led him on a 12,000-mile journey on foot
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Russian troops desperate for the loo as toilet exports banned to 'punish' Putin
Sinking to grimy lows, Russian troops are well-known for thieving lavatories out of Ukrainian homes to send back to their families as Western sanctions of "bidets, lavatory pans, [and] flushing cisterns" bite
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Brit fighters describe moment they came face to face with five Russian prisoners
James Dee, from Pontefract in the UK, joined the Ukrainian army in April 2022 and said he remembers going towards the back of the tree line and seeing the five Russian prisoners
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Brit shares how he shot dead Russian soldier who had killed fellow countryman
Craig Mackintosh, a 48-year-old landscape gardener, was killed by troops while out on patrol when his squad was ambushed in Russian territory, near the city of Kharkiv
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Pregnant mum accused of beating and burning own son, 3, to death for wetting bed
Pregnant Ivey Marie Lewis, from Tacoma in Washington, US, claimed her son would regularly run into walls head-first but police found marks all over his body suggesting he had been beaten