BREAKING NEWS: British soldier k!lled in Ukraine by Russian troops left UK humiliated A bombshell revelation out of London has electrified Westminster: British paratroopers have been operating on Ukrainian soil, and now one of them has been killed. The loss of Lance Corporal George Hooley—the first UK military death officially acknowledged—blows apart years of careful evasiveness over Britain’s true involvement in the conflict. As fresh reports point to an expanded British presence and scores of