WHILE Putin’s war in Ukraine rages on with no end in sight, The Sun investigates the hidden signs the Russian despot is planning to invade Nato’s “Achilles heel”. In the

Ukraine is not a member of NATO, though the international security alliance has been a key player in its ongoing conflict with Russia, which escalated to a full-scale invasion by Russian forces Thursday. Since the United States helped form NATO, or the ...

Ukraine lost around 14,000 soldiers and civilians during this period. But in February 2022, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. Russian troops quickly reached the outskirts of Kyiv and seized huge swathes of the south, including big chunks of two more oblasts, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

A Russian drone has crossed into Poland during one of Putin's biggest attacks on Ukraine of the year, with the Polish military unable to intercept the aircraft

While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been included in earlier demands.

Moscow insists it did not plan to hit targets in Poland, after Warsaw says it shot down Russian drones in its airspace.