Ukraina tęsia savo balistinių raketų kūrimą, o pirmieji bandymai rodo daug žadančius rezultatus. Apie tai vaizdo kreipimesi pranešė Ukrainos prezidentas Volodymyras Zelenskis, pabrėžęs, kad šiuos pasiekimus būtina paversti „tikru ginklu“, rašo UNIAN.

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LONDON — The ruling Labour Party lost a fifth of its members last year as Keir Starmer’s government was hit by scandal, deployed unpopular policies and was forced into a raft of U-turns. The extent of the exodus from the governing party — which was led by Starmer until he resigned as prime minister in June after losing the support of his MPs — was revealed in Labour Party accounts published by the Electoral Commission Thursday. The filing shows Labour recorded a membership of 264,754 in 2025 — 20 percent lower than the 333,235 figure posted for 2024. Starmer faced a tricky 2025 after winning a landslide victory the previous year, which brought the center-left party back into power after 14 years. He was forced into a series of policy U-turns by his party, and sacked Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. after fresh details on the closeness of his friendship with convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein emerged. Membership swelled under Starmer’s predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, with the party recording more than half a million Labour members at the peak of his popularity. But under Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the party moved rightwards economically and on issues such as immigration and benefit payments, and expelled left-leaning party stalwarts such as Corbyn and Diane Abbott. Such changes put the leadership at odds with its members, sections of whom are notably more left wing than the British public at large. The removal of the whip from several Labour MPs for voting against government welfare policies in 2024, and again in 2025, were watershed moments. In 2023, Starmer told members: “If you don’t like the changes that we’ve made, I say the door is open, and you can leave.” New Labour leader and prime minister Andy Burnham will be under pressure to reverse the decline in membership. A Labour party spokesperson said: “Labour is bringing back hope.” “The Labour Party is proud to be powered by our dedicated Party members and supporters who fight day after day for Labour victories to change the country for the better,” the spokesperson added. Labour’s declining membership comes in stark contrast to that of the left-wing Green Party, which claims its membership grew from 68,000 in September 2025 to more than 200,000 in March 2026. Many are likely to be former Labour members. It doesn’t record an official figure in its accounts. The Conservative Party does not release membership numbers, but its accounts show that its income from members dropped from £ 2.1 million in 2024 to £ 1.7 million in 2025. Joe Stanley-Smith contributed to this report.

BRUSSELS — EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner warned on Thursday the bloc is vulnerable to unauthorized migration if control of its external borders depends on the goodwill of neighboring countries. Brunner’s remarks came at an extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee, a week after a major migration surge from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, which has reignited debate over how the EU should secure its frontiers. “What we have seen in Ceuta during the past few days was … a test of our resilience and also of the security of our external borders,” Brunner said. “We must cooperate with our neighbors, of course. But as long as control depends on the goodwill of one neighboring state, we remain … vulnerable,” he added. Brunner described last week’s events in Ceuta, when around 72,000 migrants forced their way into the Spanish exclave, as “solid proof that we need a strong and effective tool — and different tools — to combat smuggling.” Ceuta Mayor-President Juan Jesús Vivas, who also attended the meeting, said that around 100 people died during the mass border crossing, and that between 3,000 and 5,000 remained in the exclave. Brunner said the EU should use all available leverage to secure the cooperation of countries bordering the bloc. “It’s about further strengthening the work with partners … [We need to] step up our migration diplomacy by reinforcing comprehensive partnerships to stem this illegal migration, secure effective returns and create the right opportunities for people at home,” he said. Brunner said cooperation with non-EU countries was essential “because the goal there is to make sure such events never happen again.” The conservative Austrian commissioner’s party colleague Integration Minister Claudia Bauer warned on Thursday in a written statement that “another attempted mass crossing” in Ceuta could happen on Aug. 15, quoting Spanish media. “In light of reports of another attempted mass crossing, Spain must immediately and significantly reinforce border protection in its African enclaves and ensure that this time it will hold,” she said.

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