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Six ways Ukraine can win war and humiliate Vlad by storming Crimea, crippling warships & bulldozing Russians with drones

UKRAINE today marks the bloody second anniversary of Putin's vicious war - but Russia could be defeated in "the next year".

Military analysts told The Sun that there are six major ways Kyiv can break through the "slugfest" and smash Putin's forces - but the West must never lose hope in a Ukrainian victory.

It is a difficult moment for Ukraine. The conflict has ground into a painful war of attrition - a bloody stalemate characterised by ferocious fighting that more resembles 1916 than 2024.
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How Navalny became the face of freedom - before paying the ultimate price

PUTIN'S most feared opponent who the despot locked up - after all but certainly trying to poison - has died.

Activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 47, spent his final years suffering inside a hellhole Arctic prison - paying the ultimate price for daring to take on the Kremlin boss.

Navalny, the most visible and longstanding critic of President Putin, had been locked up for three decades last August on trumped-up charges of treason and extremism - charges he always denied.
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Excl: Iran is biggest threat to world order, warns former ambassador

As new battle lines are drawn across the map, Iran is increasingly finding ways to fuse its interest with autocratic regimes to form an anti-Western axis of evil

REIGN OF TERROR Iran is biggest threat to world order – they want to watch the world burn starting with Israel, former ambassador warns

IRAN’S murderous regime is hellbent on destruction far beyond the Middle East - and it poses the greatest threat to world order, warns a former US ambassador.

Mark Wallace told The Sun that obtaining
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Excl: I’m a Ukrainian spending Xmas in trenches - we'll celebrate when Vlad is beaten

A BRAVE but war-weary soldier is spending Christmas shivering in trenches and missing fallen comrades - but vowed she will always find the strength to fight on.

Frontline combat medic Inna Korolenko said there will be no time for festive celebrations until Russia is defeated.

On Christmas Eve, Inna wants the world to remember that Ukraine is still at war and currently facing down an unrelenting Russian winter offensive.

Speaking to The Sun, she explained that it's hard to be apart from her fa
The Sun •

Ukraine's apocalyptic battle for city as Putin suffers ‘war's worst losses’

FIELDS of decomposing bodies are building up as Ukraine bravely "holds back the enemy" at a key eastern city.

There is no building left intact in shattered Avdiivka as a desperate Vladimir Putin throws his troops into meat-grinder assaults to try to secure a winter victory.

Since mid-October, Russian forces have been bearing down on the devastated city of Avdiivka - known as the gateway to the major city of Donetsk that lies 12 miles to the east.

The city has become the central battleground i
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Excl: Wagner still waging secret war earning £8m-a-month to massacre civilians

RUSSIA'S Wagner Group are still waging a secret war earning £8million a month to reign terror for brutal warlords in Mali.

It’s a standard play for the mercenary army that terrorises, maims and murders on behalf of the Russian state in exchange for blood gold to feed Putin’s war machine, experts told The Sun.

The Wagner Group, which for years was ruled by oligarch and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin until he met his fiery end in August, has spent decades secretly digging their claws into Africa.

Th
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Excl: I’ve been in world’s worst prisons …crime lords behead enemies & burn them alive

FROM beheaded bodies to bloody-thirsty gang lords, a man who has seen inside Honduras and El Salvador's infamous prisons has revealed they are hell on earth.

Marcel Osorto, an investigative journalist from Honduras, told The Sun of the horrors he saw after entering the jails after their "darkest and deadliest days".

Osorto has devoted years to researching organised crime in his country and its neighbouring so-called “prison state” of El Salvador.

He has seen first-hand both the terror and rut
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PM Netanyahu vows to 'exterminate bloody monsters' as troops surround Gaza

ISRAEL's prime minister this afternoon vowed to "exterminate the bloody monsters" who unleashed hell on his country.

It comes as Israel's military says it has Gaza surrounded, while Hamas is reportedly blocking terrified residents from escaping the bomb-blitzed enclave.

As the ground offensive looms ever-nearer, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli troops "are ready to act at any moment, to exterminate the bloody monsters that rose up against us."

"Hamas thought we would break
The Sun •

Israel surrounds Gaza Strip... as Hamas 'blocks' civilians from escaping

ISRAEL'S military has surrounded the Gaza Strip amid plans to launch a "coordinated" attack by land, air and sea.

The move comes amid fears that Hamas is blocking terrified residents from escaping the bomb-blitzed enclave.

The Israeli military said its forces were preparing to implement a wide range of operational offensive plans as expectations grew of an imminent invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The IDF said its forces were deployed across the country, increasing operational readiness for the ne
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Israeli SAS & tanks raid Gaza as PM warns devastating blitz 'just the beginning'

CRACK Israeli special forces units have spearheaded the first ground offensive into besieged Gaza.

Super-elite Sayeret Matkal soldiers are believed to have led tanks and infantry into Hamas lairs to hunt down terrorist rocket crews and search for hostages.

The mission was the first to probe Hamas defences ahead of an anticipated full-scale ground invasion as early as tomorrow.

An Israeli defence source told The Sun: “It is safe to assume that special forces would have been involved in this st
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Sanctioned Russian warmonger STILL has bloodsoaked hands on £13m Spain villa

HOUSE OF SIN Sanctioned Russian warmonger & Putin pal STILL has bloodsoaked hands on plush £13m Spain villa…with a Ukrainian gardener

A RUSSIAN warmonger has held onto a £13million Spanish mansion despite being under tough international sanctions, The Sun can reveal.

Putin pal Alexey Chepa is still in control of the huge beachfront estate in a luxury resort town close to Marbella - which is bizarrely looked after by a Ukrainian gardener.

The oligarch's sprawling mansion is situated in the exc
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Excl: One-eyed Hamas chief The Guest dodged assassins to mastermind slaughter

FOR decades Mohammed Deif has lurked in the shadows, remaining a ghost that Israel could never manage to kill.

The anonymous "voice of war", who masterminded Hamas's surprise terror attacks on Israel and the mass slaughter of innocents, appears to be ready to get better acquainted with the world.

A man of infamy, terror and anonymity - he has long haunted the Gaza Strip as the commander of al-Qassam brigades, Hamas’s military wing.

And on Saturday as Hamas militants breached the border and wa
The Sun •

BROADCAST Mafia boss dubbed The Devil who led clan that inspired The Godfather dies at 61

SICILIAN mafia don Matteo Messina Denaro, who spent 30 years on the run before his arrest in January, has died.

The 61-year-old "boss of bosses"- responsible for heinous crimes that shocked Italy and the world - had been suffering from cancer.

As Messina Denaro's health deteriorated in recent weeks, he was transferred from his maximum security prison to hospital where he died.

The mafia's "last godfather", who fronted up the notorious Sicilian Cosa Nostra group, once boasted to have murdered
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