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Jamaica vets medal joy after 77 years l See page 9
True tale of heroic Ukraine sniper Win
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Mum's battle against one of UK's biggest killers
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Rugby
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On water
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The Sports Awards '22
Best of RAF
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SIX-YEAR-OLD MAYA Reynard hands D-Day veteran 98-year-old Bernard Morgan a poppy as the Royal British Legion launches this year's appeal. The Forces charity paid for veteran airman Bernard to return to Normandy to pay tribute to his fallen comrades and for Maya to join mum, former RAF Corporal Sally, at the Invictus Games.
AIR FORCE instructors are teaching Ukrainian recruits lifesaving skills to counter Vladimir Putin’s latest terror weapons. And a civilian translator, who escaped the massacre at Bucha carried out by the Russian Army, told RAF News that nowhere in her country is safe from kamikaze drones. The news comes as Britain imposed new sanctions on Iran for supplying the Kremlin with the Shahed-136 weapons being used against civilians in Ukrainian cities. II Sqn RAF Regiment's Flt Lt Liam Power – whose instructors are teaching Ukrainian soldiers to 'fight, survive and win' at Catterick – said tactical training had changed to counter the latest threat. “We have updated the camouflage and concealment training to include how to conceal oneself from hostile unmanned air systems used to direct mortars and artillery and ‘kamikaze drones’ currently used to attack both soldiers and infrastructure," he said. “We have incorporated thermal sheeting, camouflage nets placed in trees, and teach how to minimise physical and thermal signatures." l Continued pp3 and 16-17