2022-02-19
Daily Telegraph Front Page 19th of February 2022
A wind gust record was set in England – 122mph on the Isle of Wight – as Storm Eunice hit parts of the UK, The Daily Telegraph says.
A wind gust record was set in England – 122mph on the Isle of Wight – as Storm Eunice hit parts of the UK, The Daily Telegraph says.
Joe Biden and Boris Johnson have warned that Russia has begun a “false flag” attack, in a preamble to a full-blown invasion into Ukraine, The Daily Telegraph writes.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has told The Daily Telegraph that Russia is preparing to “test the mettle” of the West by dragging out the Ukraine crisis for months as she warned against being lulled into a “false sense of security” over Putin’s claims of troop withdrawal.
The Queen will partly help pay for the settlement agreed by the duke so the royals can “draw a line under the case”, The Daily Telegraph says.
US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson say there is a window for peace before war potentially breaks out between Russia and Ukraine, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Boris Johnson has urged Vladimir Putin to “step back from the brink” as he insisted there was a “window of opportunity” to avoid war in Ukraine, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The Daily Telegraph leads with fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the US saying it did not believe Vladimir Putin had made a “final decision”, or given an order to his troops, but that Russia now had enough soldiers and military hardware on the Ukrainian border to attack “any day now”.
The Daily Telegraph also reports on Cressida Dick’s resignation.
The Daily Telegraph leads with Scotland Yard’s plans to contact more than 50 people who attended Downing Street parties and ask them to explain their involvement before detectives begin issuing fines.
The Daily Telegraph writes that NHS waiting lists will rise no matter what level of “investment or reform” the government provides, Sajid Javid says.