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Britian has been warned that sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine could lead to their defeat and death at the hands of Russian forces.

Andrii Madzianovsky told MSPs the ‘country which is actually at war’ must be at the table for talks on ending the conflict.

Donald Trump visiting Scotland as part of a state visit to the UK is "unthinkable" unless the US President changes his stance on Ukraine, John Swinney has said. The First Minister told MSPs today that last week’s now infamous White House meeting between the American leader and the Ukrainian president "can only run the risk of emboldening Russia".

UKRAINE’s President could visit the Scottish Parliament after the First Minister said he would support a visit from the leader of the war-torn country. John Swinney backed calls from Scottish Tory

Scotland's First Minister, John Swinney, has launched a blistering attack on Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, describing him as an "accomplice of and apologist for the Russian agenda".

Threat from the far right is real, but that leaves me all the more convinced that working together is not only the right choice, but the only choice,' says John Swinney - Anadolu Ajansı

He is largely unheard of in Scotland, but is revered in eastern Ukraine, where a prominent statue marks his status as founder of the now-occupied city of Luhansk. Now details of the life of Falkirk-born Charles Gascoigne - an industrialist originally invited to Russia by Catherine the Great - have been uncovered by an academic at a Scottish university.

The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said talks with the US on ending the three-year war will take place next week.

Officials from around 20 largely European and Commonwealth countries took part in the latest talks about a peacekeeping coalition.