CRAIG Stanley Mackintosh, 48, allegedly killed in an ambush while volunteering for Ukraine.
The Norfolk landscaper reportedly shot in the neck near the Ukrainian in the town of Kharkiv as he sought to save a Ukrainian fighter.
Mackintosh had dreamed of joining the British army, but an inoperable cistus near his brain meant he was failing a medical examination to enlist.
When news broke of Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, the Norfolk local seized the opportunity for the besieged nation.
Mr. Mackintosh is survived by two daughters and two stepdaughters.
Speaking to Facebook, his sister had “died in the war saving lives like a true hero. “
She added: “He told us it would be his ‘last hurrah’ ‘to return to Blighty to be a gardener’ in October.
“It had been his dream to serve in the armed forces, and seeing how the confrontation spread and seeing the devastation, he made the decision he sought to faint to help people.
“Craig is the kind of user who saw a complicated scenario and tried to make someone laugh. He’s a real morale booster and a lot of fun.
“He was well known and loved and earned the respect of entire peoples, all he was looking for was to help people. “
His circle of relatives lately is soliciting donations to cover the cost of returning his frame home, which is expected to charge £4,100.
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The Ukrainian military will also be informed about how to use mine-search cars in the coming months.
According to the government’s website, the UK will send six mine-search drones to clear ukraine’s coast.
It can dive up to a hundred meters to stumble upon mines for the Ukrainian Navy to destroy.
The Russian dictator is expected to make a statement in the coming days expressing sadness at the passing of former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax News that Russian President Vladimir Putin had expressed “his deepest condolences” over Mikhail Gorbachev’s death.
“Tomorrow (today) he will send a telegram of condolences to his circle of family and friends. “
Deliveries of Russian fuel to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline were halted today, energy operator Entsog said.
According to Russian electric giant Gazprom, the fuel will be delivered until 01:00 GMT on September 3 due to maintenance work.
The pause comes at a time when fuel costs in Europe are soaring and the dangers are causing more tensions between Russia and the West.
The Ministry of Defense a visual review of the existing scenario in Ukraine.
This comes just days after Ukraine launched a likely successful offensive against its invaders, pushing Putin’s forces back into the Kherson region.
The war in Ukraine reaches its 200th day, with estimates putting Russian casualties at about 48,000.
Kyiv accused Russian forces of bombing the town near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as the IAEA begins its investigation into the facility.
“The Russian army is bombing Enerhodar,” said Yevhen Yevtushenko, head of the Army administration of the Nikopol district.
According to reports, 14 nuclear experts arrived in Kyiv yesterday to begin their examination of the plant.
Images of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “hugging tightly at his table at an assembly with one of his trusted generals” sparked new rumors about the despot’s health.
In a rare public appearance, Putin met with Russian National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov, 68, to discuss the state of the Russian military’s operations in Ukraine.
Zolotov can be heard saying that Ukrainians welcome the Russian invasion, despite all reports to the contrary.
Click here to see the disturbing photographs of the bloodthirsty chief.
As Ukraine prepares an offensive across its front, President Zelensky has a part for Putin’s men.
“Go home. “
“If they need to survive, it’s time for the Russian army to flee. Come home,” he said in his evening speech.
“Ukraine is taking back its land. “
Boris Johnson paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at the age of 91.
Boris praised the former Soviet prime minister, but warned that Russia’s current leader intended to undo the positive paintings made by Gorbachev.
“What worries me is that the existing leaders in Moscow intend to undo the intelligence that Gorbachev did and intend to withdraw for revenge to recreate this Soviet empire,” he said.
“And you see this in Ukraine. This is the tragedy [and] anything gorbachev would have had an incapable, unjustified and irrational idea. “
The British Ministry of Defence has a new update on Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
The text reads: “The Ukrainian armed forces have continued to attack Russia’s Southern Forces Group on various axes in the south of the country since Monday.
“Ukrainian formations pushed back the front line to a safe distance in some places, exploiting weak Russian defenses.
“According to their doctrine, it is most likely that Russia will now try to fill in the gaps in its line through pre-designated cellular reserve units. Most likely, they will come with some of those from the Eastern Force Group.
“Russia continues to push forward attempts to generate new reinforcements for Ukraine. Volunteer battalions of the new 3rd Army Corps had left their base near Moscow on August 24, likely for further deployment to Ukraine.
“The operational effectiveness of those sets is known. The 3. er Army Corps has the maximum of probably insufficient personnel and those troops have received limited training. “
The British Ministry of Defence has a new update on Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
The text reads: “The Ukrainian armed forces have continued to attack Russia’s Southern Forces Group on various axes in the south of the country since Monday.
“Ukrainian formations pushed back the front line to a safe distance in some places, exploiting weak Russian defenses.
“According to their doctrine, it is most likely that Russia will now try to fill in the gaps in its line through pre-designated cellular reserve units. Most likely, they will come with some of those from the Eastern Force Group.
“Russia continues to push forward attempts to generate new reinforcements for Ukraine. Volunteer battalions of the new 3rd Army Corps had left their base near Moscow on August 24, likely for further deployment to Ukraine.
“The operational effectiveness of those sets is known. The 3. er Army Corps has the maximum of probably insufficient personnel and those troops have received limited training.
As fears of a Chernobyl-like crisis at Europe’s nuclear power plant rise, the International Atomic Energy Agency has begun its project in Ukraine.
CNN reports that 14 experts have arrived in the war-torn country to read about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russia has refused to demilitarize the region.
Oleksiy Kovalyov, 33, shot dead with a shotgun along with his wife, who stabbed him to death, becoming the sixth Ukrainian accused of collaborating to be killed by a squad.
Koyalyov had been a traitor after moving over to Putin’s side.
A popular Telegram channel run by Ukrainian journalist Andrei Tsaplienko confirmed: “Traitor, collaborator and former popular deputy Oleksiy Kovalyov was shot dead in his own home.
“Occupants have exhaustive searches and document checks. Be careful, Ukrainians.
It was the humiliating moment when Russian troops fled the front along a maze of trenches as Ukraine promised to push them back to the border.
The embarrassment comes when Ukrainian defenders launched their long-awaited counterattack into occupied Kherson overnight.
According to officials, Ukrainian troops crossed the first Russian defense line in the southern city and would avoid until the invaders were driven back to Russia.
“We will push them to the border. On our border, whose line has changed. The invaders know this well,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“If they need to survive, it’s time for the Russian army to flee. “
Gasoline costs were already high before the war in Ukraine, and are expected to skyrocket after Covid restrictions were lifted.
But it skyrocketed after the invasion because Russia is one of the largest producers in the world.
Continental Europe relies heavily on fuel imports from Russia, raising fears of winter blackouts, rationing and plant closures in Germany.
Only a small fraction of British fuel comes from Russia.
But the UK relies more on fuel to produce electricity than its European neighbours because it has less nuclear and renewable energy.
Russia has banned 55 Canadian military and political leaders from engaging in an-for-tat movement, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
He said the resolution made in reaction to Canada’s sanctions was opposed to Russian citizens.
Satellite photographs have revealed that Vladimir Putin burns £8. 4 million worth of unused fuel every day, while families face overwhelming increases in energy bills.
Massive orange flames are seen shooting into the sky of an herbal fuel plant after Russia shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe.
International fuel exploded after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and rose again after the closure of the submarine pipeline.
Households across Europe are facing potential power outages and power rationing, while the value cap in the UK has almost doubled.
Russia is contemplating doubling fines for exposing young people to what it calls “LGBT propaganda” and turning any occasion or act to publicize homosexuality into an administrative crime, the text of the new bill released Wednesday showed.
Russia’s “gay propaganda” law, passed in 2013, prohibits any user or entity from selling same-sex relationships with children, lawmakers argued in July that the law deserves to be extended to adults as well.
Lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said: “Currently, the duty applies to LGBT propaganda among children. My colleagues on the committee and I would like to extend it to any non-traditional sex propaganda, regardless of age. “
Ukrainian President Zelensky has suggested Russian infantrymen flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine.
But Moscow had repelled the attack and inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv’s troops.
Ukraine said on Monday that its ground forces had gone on the offensive in the south for the first time after a long era of movements on Russian lines of origin, especially bridges over the Dnipro River strategically and ammunition depots.
“If they need to survive, it’s time for the Russian army to flee. Come home,” Zelensky said in an evening speech.
VLADIMIR Putin’s warped commander, Andrey Gurulyov, suggested to the mad tyrant that he wishes to “annihilate the British Isles” in order to win the war in Ukraine.
The Mirror reports how Andrey Gurulyov said on Russian television that this would be the fastest way to defeat Ukraine.
On Russian television, the lieutenant said: “For serious things, London understands that there is no defense that opposes [Russian] hypersonic missiles.
“They also perceive that the main target is Germany or France, but the British Isles. “
Gurulyov added: “It’s the closest goal, it’s a lovely goal, which [we] would allow [us] to replace the final results of this clash [in Ukraine].
“So, absolutely annihilating the British Isles, I think we’re going to finish this story. “
It comes as Putin once reduced Europe’s gas to Russian gas, fueling fears that the energy crisis will worsen as winter approaches.
The Kremlin’s power company, Gazprom, has informed French power corporations that it is cutting its fuel deliveries due to a contractual disagreement.
Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s imprisoned arch-critic, was locked up in solitary confinement a day after his team published the names of two hundred “warmongers” they said would be sanctioned.
Speaking from his mobile at Melekhovo’s strict regime maximum security agreement, Navalny said Vladimir Putin is desperate to silence him because he is angry that the provocative list has been made public.
“I’m in the SHU [Special Housing Unit],” Navalny wrote in an update to his Facebook profile.
“They let me out on Sunday night, and on Monday afternoon they locked me up again, without hiding that I might not get out of that hole again.
“The SHU is evidently a hellish and unpleasant wardrobe. “
Putin’s foe said he was locked up first for three, then five, then seven days, and hopes to be locked up in solitary confinement for another 15 days because he is considered “too politically active to be a prisoner. “
The European Union will sign an agreement with Russia that facilitates the issuance of visas, but a blanket visa ban will not be imposed because there is no unanimity on the matter, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook on Wednesday.
He said Hungary, along with some member states, had opposed the Russian visa ban at an eu ministerial assembly in Prague.
He said: “A general visa ban will not be imposed on Russian citizens. “
He added: “Several Member States have raised their voices against this, myself. “
Russia lost a total of 47,900 troops to ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
According to reports, 350 Russian infantrymen were eliminated, as well as 20 tanks and 18 armored vehicles.
The Ukrainian military will also be informed about how to use mine-search cars in the coming months.
According to the government’s website, the UK will send six mine-search drones to clear ukraine’s coast.
It can dive up to a hundred meters to stumble upon the mines and have them destroyed by the Ukrainian Navy.
The Russian dictator is expected to make a statement in the coming days expressing sadness at the passing of former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax News that Russian President Vladimir Putin had expressed “his deepest condolences” over Mikhail Gorbachev’s death.
“Tomorrow he will send a telegram of condolences to his circle of family and friends. “
Deliveries of Russian fuel to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline were halted today, energy operator Entsog said.
According to Russian electric giant Gazprom, the fuel will be delivered until 01:00 GMT on September 3 due to maintenance work.
The pause comes at a time when fuel costs in Europe are soaring and the dangers are causing more tensions between Russia and the West.
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