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Day: August 22, 2026
The Duke of Sussex has privately pleaded with Shabana Mahmood for answers on his security as he prepares to move back to the UK.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/royal-family…
— @Telegraph Aug 22, 2026
From gift to factory: France lets Ukraine produce its own precision heavy hitters.
Military aid usually means shipping old hardware and hoping the stockpile holds.
But Paris and Emmanuel Macron just took a far bigger step. Under the latest agreement with Zelenskyy, Ukraine now gets the license to manufacture French best‑sellers like the AASM Hammer glide bomb, SCALP cruise missile and Aster 30 air‑defense missile directly on Ukrainian soil.
That means the famous French “Hammer” already loved by Ukrainian pilots for flattening Russian positions with remarkable precision will soon be rolling straight out of Ukrainian factories.
Moving production from Paris to the edge of the battlefield doesn’t just streamline logistics; it signals that Western defense industries are done handing out single fish and are now giving Ukraine the entire fishing rod.
A shift from charity shipments to full‑scale industrial partnership and a reminder that Ukraine’s war economy is becoming part of Europe’s own.
— @jalle51 Aug 22, 2026