MILITARY ACTIVITY AROUND UKRAINE
RUSSIA
KIEV says Moscow has 85,000 troops focused on its neighbour.
The Kremlin has sent army air defence systems into Ukraine’s Voronezh region, its Black Sea Fleet will have 10 landing and artillery vessels and two landing ships are in the Mediterranean.
BRITAIN
SIX Typhoon jets will head to Romania to police Black Sea skies and the Royal Navy will lead a multinational training programme for Ukraine’s sea forces.
As part of our alliance with Kiev, up to 100 Armed Forces members are kept in Ukraine.
UNITED STATES
TWO warships, the nuclearpowered USS Roosevelt carrier and guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook, are due to arrive in the Black Sea.
Europe troop numbers will be boosted by 500.
CONFIDENTLY predicting acting careers for her and film star husband Michael Douglas’s offspring Dylan, 20, and Carys, 17, Catherine Zeta-Jones says: “They know what celebritydom is.They know the good, the bad, warts and all of that. But their passion is about acting as a craft and they’ve done every theatre camp.”
Married to Michael for 20 years, the US-basedWelsh actress cheekily jokes of their children: “They’re both extremely bright...and they get all their brains from me.”
LOOKING back on her hit 1990s TV drama Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Jane Seymour admits she made the mistake of having a romantic fling with handsome male co-star Joe Lando before the show was commissioned for a series.
“I fell in love with my leading man. Not a good thing to do in the pilot!” recalls Jane, pictured, divorced four times. “We ran off to Bora Bora and realised we were completely incompatible. Fought like crazy. We came back, split up and then they [TV executives] said ‘We’re going to do the show.’” The British actress, 70, adds: “We did it for seven years and we weren’t talking...except as characters.”
WHILE Sir Mick Jagger is back in the news courtesy of his lockdown-inspired song Eazy Sleazy – recorded with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl – we await the verdict of his usual collaborator and fellow Rolling Stone, Keith Richards.
History suggests the latter takes a dim view of Mick’s musical efforts without him. The 77-year-old guitarist ungenerously concluded in the past that Jagger’s solo work was about “ego”, adding: “He really had nothing to say.”