Madeleine McCann detectives to search reservoir
German police looking for Madeleine McCann’s body are set to begin a major search of a remote Algarve reservoir that suspect Christian Brueckner previously visited.
Scotland Yard detectives are understood to have travelled to the area, but will only have a “watching brief”, reports Gerard Couzens.
The search is due to last for at least two days, and will continue beyond that if anything of relevance is found.
Pro-Ukrainian fighters launch cross-border tank raid to ‘capture’ Russian villages
Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine drove tanks and armoured vehicles across the border into Russia, “capturing” a number of villages.
The daring cross-border assault appeared to be the most significant effort by Ukraine-backed forces to bring the war to Russian soil, report Joe Barnes and Nataliya Vasilyeva.
It came as Kyiv said Russia was bringing more forces into Bakhmut, after Vladimir Putin declared victory in Moscow’s months-long effort to capture the city.
Roland Oliphant has a video analysis looking at the high price that Russia paid for claiming control of the city.