The Independent – Revealed: Ukraine’s plan to force Putin to retreat in shame
The Independent leads on an exclusive regarding Ukraine’s plan to capture more Russian territory. Ukraine’s top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky tells Tom Watling that Western partners knew about their incursion into the Russian Kursk region and details why Moscow must be bullied into a peace negotiation.
Elsewhere, there is a report on Liz Truss storming out of an event after Led by donkeys pulled a prank on the former prime minister – remembered best for crashing the UK economy.
Revealed: Ukraine’s plan to force Putin to retreat in shame
Ukraine’s surprise attack inside Russia is the only way to force Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table as part of a “psychological” tactic to win the war, president Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief adviser has told The Independent.
In its most successful move of the two-and-a-half-year conflict, Kyiv has captured more Russian land in the past seven days than Moscow has taken in Ukraine all year.
Ukrainian forces have steadily advanced across the border into the Kursk region, taking over towns and villages and forcing hundreds of thousands of ordinary Russians to flee their homes.
Liz Truss rages at lettuce banner and says prank ‘was not funny’
Liz Truss has hit out on social media after a banner featuring a lettuce was unfurled behind her as part of a stunt by a campaign group, saying the prank was “not funny”.
She dubbed the group behind the prank, Led by Donkeys, “far left”, accusing them of attempting to “suppress free speech”.
The former prime minister, who lasted just 49 days in office, stormed off stage at an event in Suffolk on Tuesday after the banner, emblazoned with the vegetable and carrying the words “I crashed the economy”, was unveiled.
The stunt was a reference to the challenge set by the Daily Star newspaper in October 2022 to see if Ms Truss’s premiership could outlast the shelf life of a head of iceberg lettuce.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 15 August 2024.
A real mix of headlines dominates Thursday’s front pages, with domestic stories the most popular. A few of the papers lead with the ongoing train drivers’ pay dispute, after a breakthrough in negotiations, that could bring about an end to travel disruptions.
A handful of newspapers have front-page coverage of the latest developments in the Ukraine war and many of the paper’s secondary stories are showbiz-centred.
The back pages cover the latest gossip from the Premier League as the new season is soon to begin. There is also coverage of Jude Bellingham’s Real Madrid 2-0 win in the Uefa Super Cup last night as French forward Kylian Mbappe made his highly anticipated debut.
