
WAR READY Putin orders all Russian children and relatives studying abroad to return to the ?motherland? as he ?prepares for WWIII?
Move comes after Moscow held defence drills for 40m citizens in apparent preparation for an all-out nuclear war
Putin cancelled a scheduled visit to Paris next week after French president Fran?ois Hollande accused the Kremlin of war crimes in Syria.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: ?The President has made a decision to cancel this visit.?
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called on protesters to demonstrate outside the Russian embassy over the country?s brutal bombing of Aleppo.
Relations between Russia and the US are at their lowest since the Cold War and have soured in recent days after Washington pulled the plug on Syria talks and accused Russia of hacking attacks. Ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky has even waded into the US Presidential election, claiming that Trump is the only candidate who can stave off a nuclear war.

Putin meets his troops at a Russian military base
American military bosses taking part in a ?future-of-the-Army? panel in Washington recently warned that World War III would be ?extremely lethal and fast?.
Russian military boffins have claimed that they have successfully tested a new radio-electronic weapon that uses ?direct energy? beams to destroy electronic systems in aircraft and drones. According to the manufacturer it is ?unrivalled? in the world
Tensions are also rising on the Korean peninsular as a top US think tank warned that nuclear-armed North Korea is planning ?something big? to grab the world?s attention during the Presidential election.

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