It comes as a top military chief told MPs Britain is ready to fight if Putin strikes another Eastern European nation. As tensions between the West and Russia spill over, state-run channel Telegram chillingly shared Putin would be holding a secret meeting tonight but the Kremlin has yet to disclose what it will be about.

The channel also revealed there has been no contact between Russia and the US with hostilities between the two reaching boiling point.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan made an unsettling statement to the House of Commons defence committee yesterday.

The military chief said Britain’s armed forced would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts should mad Vladimir invade another Eastern European nation. The deputy chief of the British defense staff told the committee: “If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight.

“I don’t think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has had to clarify that the UK is “not at war” after Russia’s “irresponsible rhetoric”.

He told BBC Radio Bristol: “We’re not at war, but Ukraine certainly is, because Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and that war has now been going on for just over 1,000 days. “That’s 1,000 days of aggression from Russia and 1,000 days of sacrifice for Ukraine, and that is why we’ve said consistently that we stand by Ukraine. We cannot allow Putin to win this war.”

He also labelled Russia the “aggressor” and said the war “could end today if Putin stopped being aggressive”.

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