Members of parliament have written a letter to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, warning of the potentially catastrophic dangers from the 'ticking time-bomb' vessels.

Figures shared by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) earlier that week, attributed to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, estimate that in November 2024 Russian casualties totalled 45,680. But this figure includes both troops who were killed and those who were wounded – it does not refer solely to deaths.

With Russia on the march and the end of post-Cold War peace, David Lammy has argued that Europe’s defence spending must rise. The foreign secretary said for the UK to be “taken seriously… we must put our money where our mouth is” in his first major speech of 2025.

Former First Minister Humza Yousaf has accused Foreign Secretary David Lammy of racism over his diplomatic meeting with an Israeli Minister during Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Yousaf claimed the different diplomatic approaches taken towards Israel compared to Russia's invasion of Ukraine revealed racist double standards in British foreign policy.

“Russia lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone.” On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [2:18:20] on Thursday (9 January), foreign secretary David Lammy MP claimed that Russia had “lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone” in the war with Ukrain

In a keynote speech David Lammy warned Europe is 'on a knife edge' and said the post-Cold War era of peace is over as he agreed with Donald Trump over the need to spend big on defence

The UK on Friday urged Moscow to "release all political prisoners" after a Russian court jailed three lawyers who had defended late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The series of rooms, which act "as a memorial to a supposed diplomatic triumph promising an era of international cooperation", were supposed to be the perfect backdrop for Labour to set out its vision for a more "progressive reality".

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

The UK has not carried out a single conviction for breaches of Russian sanctions, the National Crime Agency has said. Financial sanctions on Russia were introduced following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the wider invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Humza Yousaf has accused David Lammy of racism for meeting with an Israeli ... The former first minister compared Israeli military action to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but claimed the Foreign ...

Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP