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By Ashley Cowburn Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was forced to abort a trip to Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa because of a Russian missile threat. The Cabinet minister was reportedly warned by British intelligence that the Kremlin was aware of his travel plans during a visit to the war-torn country last week. As he flew to Poland on RAF Northolt before travelling on to Ukraine he was notified that an armoured convoy carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis narrowly avoided a Russian missile strike while visiting Odesa. The incident raised the …

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