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Having burned both their remaining reviews - a potential caught behind off Stubbs' glove and a flimsy lbw appeal against Bedingham - Cummins left himself no wriggle room in the event of some late drama.

In the hours before Thursday's attacks, US officials were briefing that there would be no American support in the event of Israeli action, even going as far as to say they would not help with any aerial refuelling.

He argued Poland had returned to Europe's top table, citing a recently signed bi-lateral treaty with France in which both countries declare to come to their mutual aid in the event of an attack.

"When I attend official meetings, at the ombudsman's office or elsewhere, no one talks about getting the civilians back in the event of a ceasefire," said Yulia Hripun, 23, whose father was kidnapped early on in the war from a village just west of Kyiv.

Senior Western military chiefs have long been warning the UK would quickly run out of ammunition in the event of a war.