The Prince of Wales has arrived to cheer on England alongside Prince George as anticipation builds ahead of the Euros final.

Prince William, 42, has brought George, 10, to his first match of the tournament as they watch the Three Lions take on Spain at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

As president of the FA, the Prince will be joined by Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, as England aim to win their first major trophy in 58 years.

Following the semi-final win against the Netherlands when substitute Ollie Watkins secured victory with a last-minute strike which spared England from entering extra time, Prince William congratulated the team with a tweet saying: “What a beauty, Ollie!”

The King has also congratulated England on reaching the final and has sent his “best wishes” for Sunday night’s match.

The appearance marks the third time that the royal has travelled there to cheer on England in the tournament.

Writing on the official Kensington Palace social channels on Saturday, Prince William said: “We are so proud of you all @‌England, just one last push to finish the job! Go out there and show the world what you’re made of. We believe. W.”

In May, Prince George attended the FA Cup final at Wembley between Manchester United and Manchester City with his father.

And a month earlier the pair travelled to watch their team Aston Villa take on Lille in the first leg of the Europa Conference League quarter-final.

On that occasion, 10-year-old George wore the team’s scarf and was seen clapping and smiling alongside his father as their team secured a 2-1 victory.

The Foreign Secretary will call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in meetings with the leaders of Israel and Palestine on Sunday.

David Lammy will make the case for a “credible and irreversible pathway” towards a two-state solution to Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas.

Mr Lammy has travelled to the Middle East for his first visit since Labour entered Government, with meetings scheduled with leaders in Israel as well as hostage families.

The Foreign Office said he will then visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where he will state “his commitment to recognising a Palestinian state as an undeniable right of the Palestinian people”.

It comes after Labour’s stance on Gaza cost Sir Keir Starmer some seats at the general election, with four MPs losing to pro-Palestine independents.

The Foreign Secretary said: “The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. This war must end now, with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides.

“The fighting has got to stop, the hostages still cruelly detained by Hamas terrorists need to be released immediately and aid must be allowed in to reach the people of Gaza without restrictions.

“I am meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to stress the UK’s ambition and commitment to play its full diplomatic role in securing a ceasefire deal and creating the space for a credible and irreversible pathway towards a two-state solution.”

He added: “The world needs a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.

“Central to this is to see an end to expanding illegal Israeli settlements and rising settler violence in the West Bank. Here, in what should be a crucial part of a Palestinian state, alongside Gaza and East Jerusalem, we need to see a reformed and empowered Palestinian Authority.”

Jonathan Ashworth, who was a central figure in the Labour campaign, lost his seat in Leicester South to Shockat Adam, a pro-Palestine independent.

The party was also unsuccessful in Blackburn, Dewsbury and Batley, and Birmingham Perry Barr, as a result of independent candidates running on pro-Palestine tickets.

Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause, won against Labour in Islington North.

The Foreign Secretary will also announce a further £5.5 million in aid this year to UK-Med, a front-line charity which sends medics to crisis-hit regions such as Gaza.

Labour called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for the first time in February, with Mr Lammy, then the shadow foreign secretary, saying that the situation in Gaza had “evolved”.

He added that his party was “mirroring the language” used by the United Nations, as well as the UK’s fellow Five Eyes alliance members: the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

The Prime Minister initially resisted calls to support a ceasefire, instead saying he supported “humanitarian pauses” to allow the entry of aid into Gaza and for people to leave the territory.

More than 50 MPs, including 10 frontbenchers, resigned last November to vote in favour of a ceasefire.

Injured Russian soldiers are being sent back into the line of fire in “meat wave” assaults. 

The Ukrainian army has reported capturing Russians already suffering from their wounds sustained in previous attacks. 

They had been given minimal medical attention before being sent back to fight.

The tactics show an apparent disregard for foot soldiers as commanders throw thousands of men into the front lines in a slow and grinding summer offensive.

Some Russians have been captured re-entering the battlefield on crutches. 

Other injured troops have recorded videos pleading with their superiors for proper treatment as they receive orders to return to battle.

One soldier captured by Ukraine was said to be driving an armoured vehicle with bloodied rags over an injured eye.

The meat assault units are often made up of foot soldiers, released prisoners and the maimed. 

Many are simply protecting the next wave of soldiers behind as part of a tactic to distract and overwhelm Ukraine, and make incremental territorial gains.

British military intelligence believes that Russian ranks have been depleted by as many as 70,000 personnel over the last two months – an alarming rate that shows no signs of slowing.

Ukrainian soldiers told The Telegraph that it is “normal practice” to see injured men staggering as they fight, and that Ukrainian prisoners of war are being used by Russia as human shields.

‘We don’t have the strength’

Meanwhile, Russian soldiers have been recorded pleading with their superiors, the military prosecutors office, and even Vladimir Putin, for their lives.

“Why would they send wounded and exhausted people into battle? It’s the same as sending people to their deaths,” said two soldiers of the 1009th regiment in a video shared on social media.

“The commander says that tomorrow we must go and storm this building again. 

“But how can we do this if we are in pain, wounded, and simply don’t have the strength?”

The pair, who lent against a tree with visible wounds to their faces, said the only medical treatment they received for shrapnel wounds was from their own first aid kit as they hid in the forest.

Another video clip showed a group of the injured, a number of whom were walking on crutches, pleading desperately with their superiors, stressing that this was their final opportunity to make their case.

They told the camera: “Hear us, please, hear us, hear us. This is our last chance. We have no more options.”

The latest death toll figures of Russian soldiers is equivalent to an average of above 1,000 a day amid the escalating intensity of battle on the newly opened front in Kharkiv, and fighting elsewhere in east and north-east Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defence said on Friday.

“Although this new approach has increased the pressure on the front line, an effective Ukrainian defence and a lack of Russian training reduces Russia’s ability to exploit any tactical successes, despite attempting to stretch the front line further,” the MoD added.

Hunter (his call sign), a Ukrainian junior soldier, said that there are “frequent cases” of Russian soldiers “simply left in positions to die”.

“This is a common situation when wounded Russian soldiers are captured. According to them, they were left to their fate without food and water to die by their own comrades,” he said.

Hunter reported seeing Ukrainian PoWs being pushed to walk ahead of advancing Russian soldiers, forced into the cruel role of human shields.

Yuriy, a machine gunner, confirmed Hunter’s reports, telling The Telegraph: “Of course, I have seen PoWs, this is outrageous and tearing us apart from the inside, such an attitude towards prisoners of war is unacceptable and prohibited by conventions.”

In the Donetsk region, a Russian soldier was captured by Ukraine with his leg rotting from a shrapnel wound.

“He was not evacuated for some reason. Later in Dnipro, our medics had to amputate this leg for him so he can survive,” Vlad, a member of the Kraken Regiment volunteer unit, told The Telegraph.

Vlad reported that the Russians they captured revealed their commander, known by the call sign Ryba, had ordered that no one would be evacuated until they had secured the territory around the Kupyansk silicate plant in the Kharkiv region.

Kupyansk, a strategic rail hub, was seized by Russia in early 2022, retaken by Ukraine seven months later and missile and artillery strikes continue to hit the area.

The river through Kupyansk could offer a natural defence against future Russian advances.

A soldier who chose to remain anonymous said: “We carried a wounded Russian to our side for many kilometres to save his life as he was left alone to die.”

Hunter confirmed that many units – including the poorly-trained, lightly-equipped “Storm-Z” assault troopers – are “prohibited” from leaving their positions.

‘Storm fighters, they’re just meat’

Storm-Z is a series of penal military units for convicts – including murderers – established by Russia by April 6, 2023, renamed Storm-V later that year.

Illia Yevlash, the spokesman for the Khortytsia operational-strategic group, claimed in February that Russian commanders were using human wave tactics involving Storm-Z and Storm-V.

“Storm fighters, they’re just meat,” said one regular soldier from army unit number 40318.

“If such units retreat, they can be destroyed by their barrier units,” said Hunter. 

“The Russian armed forces mobilise people with serious illnesses such as tuberculosis or HIV, and such ‘soldiers’ are treated differently.”

Use of suicidal human wave attacks does not appear to have reduced despite high-profile changes at the top of the Russian defence ministry.

Many Ukrainian soldiers who spoke to The Telegraph revealed they hesitate to save Russians because of their unwavering resolve to continue fighting even after being captured.

Yuriy explained that some injured soldiers wanted to surrender quickly, but that he had seen others “shoot to the last”, even attempting to detonate grenades when they were given medical aid.

The high Russian attrition rate comes as Ukraine also struggles to find enough soldiers to make any significant breakthroughs.

The much-anticipated Russian summer offensive appears to have largely fizzled out, with both sides once again locked in fighting along rigid front lines dividing Ukraine roughly from north to south.

Migrants are at greater risk of drowning in the Channel because a shortage of dinghy supplies has led to fewer, more overcrowded boats for smuggling gangs to fight over.

Increased UK-EU cooperation has meant supplies of equipment including dinghies, outboard motors and lifebelts have been cut off from the French coast by border officials and police.

Gangs are now left battling over fewer small boats, loading different groups of migrants on to a single dinghy, often made from cheaper materials because of the pan-European restriction on supplies, according to Border Force sources.

The UK has struck deals with Turkey, traditionally a source for dinghies and motors; Bulgaria, one of the main land routes for equipment into Europe; and Frontex, the European border agency. These are said to be having a significant impact on supplies of boats used by the people smuggling gangs for their illegal cross-Channel trade.

It comes as four migrants died on Friday when a flimsy dinghy barely 35ft long capsized. There was just one lifejacket and an inner tube ring between the more than 60 migrants crammed on board. Many of them could not swim.

In April five migrants including a woman and a seven-year-old girl died after being crushed on a dinghy packed with 112 people when it got into trouble several hundred yards from the beach.

More than 14,000 people have made crossings so far this year. That is 10 per cent higher than the number recorded this time last year (12,772) and up six per cent on the same period in 2022 (13,318), according to provisional data from the Home Office.

“The boats are getting bigger and the loads are getting bigger,” said a Border Force source. “There’s interfactional warfare in Calais between the gangs. So if there is a boat around, there’s a fight about which load [of migrants] gets on it.

“That can mean that there will be more than one load who will pile on and there is then an increased risk of drowning as a result.

“We have also been doing work in the Balkans, Bulgaria and Turkey. There are more dinghies being intercepted which is causing shortages. This means the loads are getting bigger.”

French laws

There has been criticism of French police officers for apparently standing on the beach rather than physically stopping the migrants setting sail in the dangerous dinghies but they are hamstrung by French laws. This means they can only disrupt departures by, for example, slashing the dinghies.

“The French are restricted in what they can do. They cannot legally stop someone leaving France unless there is direct evidence that they are a criminal.

“There are all sorts of legal reasons why the French are doing what they are doing. It would require a change in the law to give them more powers to stop and arrest them. It means the only alternative is to try to disrupt them.”

Rishi Sunak negotiated a £490 million deal with the French to double the number of officers on the beaches, pay for more surveillance equipment such as drones and build a detention and processing facility for the migrants.

While on his trip to Nato on Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer admitted that the small boats crisis could get worse before it gets better and that numbers coming across the Channel are going up, not down.

The Prime Minister scrapped Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme on his first day in office, with the money to be diverted to a new border security command, which will oversee the recruitment of hundreds of new officers and investigators tasked to smash the people-smuggling gangs

Fast-track deportations

The Labour Party also pledged to set up a new enforcement and returns unit to negotiate new agreements to be able to remove migrants and to fast-track deportations.

Sir Keir has said he will seek to negotiate a new deal to be able to return migrants to the EU, which some officials believe is critical to deterring people from crossing. Britain has hinted it would be prepared to accept unaccompanied migrant children and asylum seekers with family connections in return.

The suspect in the suitcase murder investigation ran from the scene shouting “my boss is really bad” before human remains were found.

The man was pursued by an onlooker on a bike from Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge and made the comment in Spanish before apparently trying to stop the person filming.

In the early hours of Thursday morning police found the remains of two men in suitcases nearby. Further remains were found at a flat in West London on Friday while a manhunt was underway.

On Saturday, armed police detained a 34-year-old man at Bristol’s Temple Meads railway station who is understood to be undergoing questioning in London.

Metropolitan Police officers had earlier said that they wanted to speak to 34-year-old Colombian national Yostin Andres Mosquera.

The Sun published a video of the suspect running away from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, where it is understood he had been challenged by witnesses who thought they saw blood leaking from the luggage he was carrying.

The video shows him being pursued by a person on a bike before he appears to say “mi jefe es muy malo”, Spanish for “my boss is really bad”.

Human remains connected

Detectives have confirmed that human remains found at a flat in Shepherd’s Bush belong to the same two men whose remains were found in Bristol.

It has been reported that the victims lived together and one had recently travelled to Colombia. They have not yet been identified.

A neighbour told the Mail on Sunday that one of them “had been on holiday in Colombia… they were quite well travelled and had a villa on the border of Spain and France too. They’d lived here for a couple of years.”

It is believed that one of the men may have worked as a concierge for Harrods Estate, the property company, before retiring in 2019.

On Saturday, investigators in blue forensic suits, wearing masks and gloves, could be seen working behind a cordon outside the property in Scotts Road.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police are leading the investigation and are working with their counterparts in Avon and Somerset Police.

Dept Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine, of Scotland Yard, said of the arrest: “This is a significant development in our investigation, and I would like to thank the public for their support.

“We understand the concerns of local communities in both Bristol and London, and officers will remain in the Clifton and Shepherd’s Bush areas over the coming days to reassure those affected by this tragic incident. Anyone with any concerns is encouraged to speak with them.”

The suspect is believed to have travelled to Bristol from London in a vehicle in which he was not the driver. He was picked up in a taxi outside a pub in Clifton, an affluent area in the west of the city.

It is thought he then made a short journey from outside the pub to the other side of the bridge, which connects Bristol with Leigh Woods in North Somerset.

The manhunt began at 11.57pm on Wednesday, when police received reports of a man seen “acting suspiciously” near the Bristol bridge.

Officers arrived within 10 minutes but the man had left the scene, leaving a suitcase behind. A second suitcase was found nearby a short time later and both contained body parts.

A 36-year-old man who was arrested in Greenwich on Friday in connection with the investigation has since been released without charge.