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He married Johanna O'Connel, a canteen worker he met at Gaydon Airfield near Coventry, before the couple settled in Birmingham.

Earlier this year it was reportedly spotted at the Akhtubinsk airfield in southern Russia, one of the launch sites to attack Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones targeted a military airfield in the Maikop region of southern Russia.

Air force officials said one Kinzhal missile managed to evade air defences and hit an area around the Starokostiantyniv airfield in the Khmelnytskyi region.

Matthew Savill, military sciences director at leading UK defence think tank Rusi, says Diego Garcia is an “enormously important” base, “because of its position in the Indian Ocean and the facilities it has: port, storage and airfield”.