All news on the topic: Soldiers

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Vladimir Putin has lost half of Russia's airborne troops since invading Ukraine
Russia has lost a suspected 127,500 troops since it began its invasion of Ukraine nearly one year ago, and among these heavy casualties is half of its supposedly elite airborne troops
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Tiger attacks two people in five days as soldiers called in to hunt down big cat
The Sumatran tiger struck at about 2am local time in a protected forest in Indonesia's Aceh province, with local officials saying they plan to "rescue" and "relocate" the creature because farmers had been working illegally inside the area
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Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
Today's walkouts by five unions will be biggest day of strike action since 2011 - and will coincide with mass protests by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) against the Government's anti-strike legislation
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Russian women urge Putin to allow exhausted soldier husbands and sons home
Russian women issued a video appeal to Vladimir Putin demanding the men be allowed home to rest four months after being sent to the frontline without proper training and ways to maintain personal hygiene
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Russian mercenary says soldiers refusing to fight are shot and thrown into grave
Runaway Wagner Group mercenary Andrei Medvedev, 26, who is now seeking asylum in Norway, claims dissenting troops were shot and buried in holes dug out by their recently enlisted comrades
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Kim Jong-un names his favourite missile launcher a national hero of North Korea
The missile launcher was awarded the Hero of the Republic medal, usually reserved for those who "perform tremendous feats during battle, or for the party and state"
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Drunk Harry 'accidentally triggered palace alarm' after falling into sentry box
A former soldier has alleged that Prince Harry once set off an alarm at St James' Palace by falling into a sentry box after a night out drinking, before becoming "abusive"
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Soldier with PTSD says orphan ocelots helped cure his depression after war hell
Harry Turner, the star of Amazon Prime TV documentary Wildcat, shares his story of turning to animal rescue after going to Peru to try to escape awful memories of the horrors of war in Afghanistan
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Russian tank explodes as it drives straight over Ukrainian mine on road
Footage shows the Russian tank driving into a minefield while coming under fire from Ukrainian troops as it travels down an empty road and hits another explosive turning the tank a fireball
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Ex-squaddie with £3.7m foot injury caught 'walking normally' and dancing at BBQ
Facebook footage emerged of 34-year-old Brian Muyepa dancing at a barbecue and seemingly walking "normally" at a friend's wedding party, which saw his claim thrown out
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Five heroic Holocaust survivors share precious objects they smuggled to safety
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, five survivors recall their stories, and the item they still have that means so much to them as part of the Daily Mirror's #PeopleMove project
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Harry needs more security after saying he killed 25 Taliban, CIA official claims
In his best-selling memoir Spare, Prince Harry claimed he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan, which some fear could make him more of a target for extremists
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Russian soldier jumps out window and falls 100ft to death in front of his mum
His mother, who was working as a cleaner for the Russian Foreign Ministry at the time, watched as her son Mikhail Lyubimov plummeted to the ground after throwing himself out of the 10th floor window of their apartment building
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High-ranking Russian officials escape Putin's grasp to defect to the West
Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015
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Putin's top commander bans beards on battlefield as critics call rule 'stupid'
The newly appointed General Valery Gerasimov has ordered soldiers to shave their beards amid a clampdown on uniform enforcement, sparking uproar from the Russian President's bearded allies
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'Electrical signals in breasts could help us understand why cancer spreads'
Dr Miriam Stoppard shares exciting research from Imperial College London on the electrical charges given out by cancer cells, which could lead to targeted attacks and new treatments
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Brit ex-NATO chief brands Germany's refusal to send tanks toUkraine 'pathetic'
General Sir Richard Shirreff, a former NATO chief from Britain, accused Olaf Scholz' government of 'ducking its responsibilities
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Rishi Sunak duped by Falklands 'Walter Mitty' who is actually a pub singer
Chris Webber joined a veterans meeting with the Prime Minister after claiming he was a Falklands hero but now it has been revealed he bought his green beret from the internet
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Putin sending cannon fodder recruits 'over the top' in WW1-style trench warfare
Russian commanders are reportedly sending inexperienced recruits across no man's land armed only with rifles and grenades towards Ukrainian trenches, with those injured left to freeze
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Holocaust survivor's daughter says mum never talked about horrors of Auschwitz
Marta Seiler's parents both survived the Holocaust, but Marta knew very little about their experience until she read a series of harrowing letters written by the pair and other members of the family
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Armed forces suffering shortfall of 4,000 troops as 16,000 quit last year
More than 16,000 people left last year – a six-year high. It's the highest loss of staff the Ministry of Defence has seen in six years and comes after numerous complaints about low pay and poor living standards
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Number of Russians killed in Ukraine hits enormous 188,000, says US intelligence
US intelligence reportedly claims an estimated 188,000 Russians have been killed or injured in Ukraine on top of heavy tank losses, with Vladimir Putin's war having started nearly a year ago
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Teen who plotted Islamist terror attack wanted to ‘torture, mutilate’ soldiers
Matthew King, 19, came to the attention of authorities after posting a video to a WhatsApp group in which he sought advice on social media about the best route to get to Syria
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Chilling image shows Ukrainian yellow kitchen hit by strike after kid's birthday
It's thought the kitchen - which a clip on social media shows hosted a children's birthday party - belonged to a Ukrainian boxing coach who was tragically killed in the attack
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Vladimir Putin to make 'very important' announcement on Ukraine war tomorrow
Vladimir Putin may make a statement on the war in Ukraine in St Petersburg tomorrow, Russian official Vladimir Rogov has claimed. There has been no official confirmation from the Kremlin yet