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<p>The struggle for identity is further complicated by the fact that many Ukrainians grew up in Russian-speaking households. But Putin’s invasion has accelerated a growing sense of a need to reassert a Ukrainian identity once and for all. "We need independent media to stop the war and then try and improve life in Russia at least to a degree." Newsround has travelled to Ukraine to meet some of the young people affected by the war. We visited schools where air raid sirens and sheltering in underground classrooms are now a part of children's everyday lives. The plant, on the north-western outskirts of the town, dominates the main road into Avdiivka and, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) believes if Russian forces were to secure it, resupplying the town would "become increasingly difficult for Ukraine".</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>We may be far from a large-scale antiwar movement, but the seeds have been sown. And once they flower into outright defiance, it could spell trouble for Mr. Putin. Mr. Kovalev is the investigations editor at Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet. Russia was unnerved when an uprising in 2014 replaced Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president with an unequivocally Western-facing government. He called Fox News to say that he didn't believe that Putin "wanted to do this, initially".</p><br /><br /><h2>Russia Has Suffered a Crushing Moral Defeat. And Russians Know It.</h2><br /><br /><p>Even so, rather than taking place in different public locations around the city, as usual, the forum was convened in an underground theatre on the hilltop campus of Ukrainian Catholic University, a ten-minute drive from the city center. There, for three days, panelists addressed topics related to Ukraine, Russia, war, and culture. Earlier today, a Russian official said air defences had thwarted a drone attack on the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl. Even so, the messages made for some jarring moments for some of those present, featuring as they often did ultra-patriotic and sometimes militaristic declarations. In a panel I moderated, the Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina began her remarks by expressing her gratitude to the Ukrainian armed forces for their defense of the homeland. “We’re all living on credit given to us by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” she said.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The head of the British Army said UK citizens should be "trained and equipped" to fight in a potential war with Russia, describing those living today as the "pre-war generation".</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Further east in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, the BBC's Eastern European Correspondent Sarah Rainsford said people did not expect such a full-on assault.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>There are some prominent Russians who are willing to speak out against the invasion of Ukraine.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Polls suggest the majority of Russians, if not supporting the war, certainly do not oppose it.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>A bus service has started up connecting the city to the local cemetery where growing numbers of soldiers killed in Ukraine are being buried. In Pskov, near the Estonian and Latvian borders, the atmosphere is gloomy and everyone pretends the war has nothing to do with them, I am told. If they are troubled by Russia bombing a city where many have friends and relatives, then they're trying not to show it. But surrounded by reminders of Russia's often relentlessly violent past I felt war was now inevitable. My daily walks were my way of saying goodbye to a world, and perhaps even a country, that could never be the same again.</p><br /><br /><h3>Ukraine conflict: What we know about the invasion</h3><br /><br /><p>Tanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders, Ukraine says. He urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and "only a question of time". "Russia is becoming absolutely isolated," Ekaterina Kotrikadze, who was an anchor for the independent TV Rain in Russia before she fled her country, told CBS News.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>When Russia invaded its neighbour, she was serving a suspended sentence and one wrong move, even an anti-war comment, could have put her behind bars.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>By Tuesday morning a Russian-language Change.org petition calling for an end of war in Ukraine had surpassed one million signatures.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"Much of this is required to fight the war in Ukraine, but the Russians, ever adaptive, are using the crucible of war to reform, restructure and re-arm their forces.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Meanwhile, Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv. But later on Thursday President Zelensky said Ukraine had suffered losses and a lot of aircraft and armoured vehicles had been destroyed. Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country. The letter "Z" — initially used by Russian forces to identify their own on the battlefield — quickly became a potent pro-war propaganda tool for the Kremlin. One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Nato defence chiefs have re-examined his lengthy speech of July 2021 and concluded they urgently need to reinforce Nato's eastern borders lest Putin is tempted to make a move on countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. After eight years of fighting a Russian-backed breakaway insurgency in the east of their country they are now watching it being shelled, bombed and rocketed by their giant nuclear-armed neighbour. The invasion plan broadly consists of a three-pronged line of attack, from the north, east and south, using artillery and missile strikes to soften resistance before following up with infantry and tanks. Putin would ideally like to see the Zelensky government quickly capitulate and surrender, to be replaced by a Moscow-leaning puppet government.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>To show key areas where advances are taking place we are also using updates from the UK Ministry of Defence and BBC research. By October 2022, the picture had changed dramatically and having failed to take Kyiv, Russia withdrew completely from the north. [https://click4r.com/posts/g/14500517/ https://click4r.com/posts/g/14500517/] began with dozens of missile strikes on cities all over Ukraine before dawn on 24 February 2022. It notes the building gives Ukraine a "localised defensive advantage" and says Russian forces will probably suffer significant losses if they attempt to assault the facility.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>His work focuses on the Premier League, LaLiga, MLS, Liga MX and the global game. Speaking to CNBC Timothy Ash, an emerging markets strategist, said that Putin had “spectacularly miscalculated” the response in Russia to war with Ukraine. "It's to send in non-uniformed troops to stir up trouble, part of 'sub-threshold warfare'. I'm worried it will spill over into the Baltics." If Russia's invasion turns into a long-term occupation of Ukraine then it is conceivable that Western nations may well support a Ukrainian insurgency, just as the US supported the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>This week Lithuania - together with Latvia, Estonia and Poland - banned all Russian tourists, arguing they should not be enjoying democracy and freedom in Europe while their government attacks those very values in Ukraine.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"Instead of fanciful talk about citizens' armies and national service, the West's military and political leaders might want to focus on tackling that threat head on, putting lead in NATO's pencil and persuading our allies to do the same."</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The situation in Ukraine is often fast moving and it is likely there will be times when there have been changes not reflected in the maps.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"People were out on the streets last night in this city - they were waving the Ukrainian flag. They said this was their land. They were going nowhere," she reported.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>That scenario, of a Russian military incursion into a Nato country, almost unthinkable until recently, is when Nato and Russia could indeed be at war with each other.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul>
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<p>Monitoring groups say more than 13,000 people have been detained at anti-war protests in the country since the start of the invasion. That the Kremlin was right to block the majority of independent media sites they used to read. Was hatred a natural and ultimately inevitable response to the atrocities Ukrainians were being subjected to? Does it change anything to know that many Russians oppose Putin’s war but are powerless to stop him, or to understand that others have been duped into supporting it through his hyper-nationalistic discourse? A few weeks after my trip, I contacted Peter Pomerantsev, who had accompanied me from Lviv to Kyiv. He had been born in Kyiv in 1977, when Ukraine was still a part of the Soviet Union, but was brought up and educated in the United Kingdom, after his parents went into exile there.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left Russia, including me and my BBC Russian colleagues.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The ISW does note that Russia's advances might be the result of Ukrainian forces withdrawing to "more defensible positions" near Robotyne.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piece&nbsp;that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US "neuter" the Western military alliance.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>He has worked in both London and Moscow, where he became an expert on Russian propaganda. Now a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Pomerantsev shuttles between Washington, D.C., and Ukraine. I asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine.</p><br /><br /><h2>More from CBS News</h2><br /><br /><p>As a result, some of the few remaining independent media in Russia have started to censor themselves. Online, most independent news websites are blocked or restricted, and so are Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The fact that the majority of Russians tune in to TV news means they are inclined to at least hear the Kremlin's message - and possibly believe it. Restrictions on reporting are increasingly severe, and access to almost all independent outlets is blocked or limited - or they censor themselves. "Much of this is required to fight the war in Ukraine, but the Russians, ever adaptive, are using the crucible of war to reform, restructure and re-arm their forces. "It is this disconnect of world view, combined with the willingness to use force, that makes the situation in eastern Europe so very dangerous.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>To indicate which parts of Ukraine are under control by Russian troops we are using daily assessments published by the Institute for the Study of War with the American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>These are people who made very small salaries when they could have made much more by going over to the Kremlin side.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>My daily walks were my way of saying goodbye to a world, and perhaps even a country, that could never be the same again.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>The biggest prize for Russia is Kyiv, the capital city and seat of President Zelensky's government - a city where fighting has already been taking place. Before the war, Russia made demands including a promise that Ukraine would not join a group of countries called Nato. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact. Despite towns and cities suffering heavy shelling, Ukraine has been successful in slowing Russia's troops down considerably and have even taken back control over the previously captured city of Kherson. But in the east of Ukraine where the country borders Russia, military troops are still fighting over territory and many places are still too dangerous for school of any kind. It follows a series of similar drone raids on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, some of which have disrupted fuel production.</p><br /><br /><h3>Europe</h3><br /><br /><p>Balazs Orban, chief political aide to the prime minister, said Hungary sent a proposal to the EU over the weekend showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package if other "caveats" were added. Hungary previously said it would block further financial aid to Ukraine, but this morning suggested it was ready to compromise after the EU reportedly drew up plans to hit Budapest's economy. They’re under attack by a Russian Army whose soldiers — young men who have spent their entire lives under Mr. Putin — look forlorn and confused. They were told by their commanders that they were going to the Ukrainian border to take part in logistical drills, only to find themselves at war. Mr. Putin seemingly dreamed of a quick victory with Russian-speaking Ukrainians welcoming their “liberators” with flowers, the Ukrainian Army surrendering en masse and the country’s leaders fleeing in fear. Whatever military “victory” Mr. Putin might find acceptable in his twisted mind, Russia has already suffered a crushing moral defeat.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>And it’s not just the usual suspects, the malcontents already known to the Kremlin. Major public figures, prominent journalists and artists have spoken out against the war. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data. And that figure came from among those who agreed to participate at all; Miniailo suspected that the polls were not capturing a majority of the real antiwar sentiment, whatever its size.</p><br /><br /><h2>Are we heading for World War Three? Experts give their verdicts</h2><br /><br /><p>The Ukraine government is working with other nations, including the UK, to try to help young people continue their education as much as possible. Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian advance. Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in control of large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kyiv. Recent assessments by the ISW show Russian forces have made advances north of Bakhmut.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Lithuania will consider cases individually, but the prime minister clarified that it was "not the duty of other countries to save Russians fleeing mobilisation".</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Many who study and report on Russia, me included, believe a small percentage of people actively support the war, and a small percentage actively oppose it.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"In the short term," says Brig Ben Barry from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, "a successful Russian seizure of Kyiv would be a military and political success with strategic impact.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>About 10 civilians are believed to have been killed, including six in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Resistance has already begun, with a nationwide call-up of men of fighting age and 18,000 automatic weapons being handed out to the citizens of Kyiv, in addition to the uniformed army and reserves who are already putting up stiff resistance.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>"Law enforcement agencies and special services are working at the scene," he wrote. The Russian president has intensified a crackdown on opposition since the start of his invasion of Ukraine, and this has ramped up further as the elections have approached. Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US. Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency. " [https://gilliam-albrechtsen-4.technetbloggers.de/what-does-the-ukraine-war-mean-for-the-uk-how-russia-invasion-and-putin-sanctions-can-affect-life-in-uk-1708115038 https://gilliam-albrechtsen-4.technetbloggers.de/what-does-the-ukraine-war-mean-for-the-uk-how-russia-invasion-and-putin-sanctions-can-affect-life-in-uk-1708115038] and constructive dialogue is expected to improve relations between states," the Ukrainian president's office said on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app alongside a photo of Mr Szijjarto, Mr Kuleba and Mr Yermak.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>As expected, Vladimir Putin has been officially registered as a candidate for the Russian presidential election this March. However, Mr Orban's political director said this morning that Hungary was open to using the EU budget to allow further aid for Ukraine. Hungary has now signalled its readiness for a compromise ahead of an emergency EU summit on Thursday.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources". If the US abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says. A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe. My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. It’s hard to find a Russian family without Ukrainian relatives and friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, chess partners and colleagues.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>People have young children to look after, cancer and other illnesses to manage, aging parents to care for.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The letter "Z" — initially used by Russian forces to identify their own on the battlefield — quickly became a potent pro-war propaganda tool for the Kremlin.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"I think the West should ramp-up military assistance to Ukraine, that's the only option," Mr Gudkov says.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Hungary has signalled it is ready to compromise on EU funding for Ukraine - after Brussels reportedly prepared to sabotage its economy if it did not comply.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul>

Revision as of 23:07, 17 February 2024

Monitoring groups say more than 13,000 people have been detained at anti-war protests in the country since the start of the invasion. That the Kremlin was right to block the majority of independent media sites they used to read. Was hatred a natural and ultimately inevitable response to the atrocities Ukrainians were being subjected to? Does it change anything to know that many Russians oppose Putin’s war but are powerless to stop him, or to understand that others have been duped into supporting it through his hyper-nationalistic discourse? A few weeks after my trip, I contacted Peter Pomerantsev, who had accompanied me from Lviv to Kyiv. He had been born in Kyiv in 1977, when Ukraine was still a part of the Soviet Union, but was brought up and educated in the United Kingdom, after his parents went into exile there.











  • Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact.








  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left Russia, including me and my BBC Russian colleagues.








  • The ISW does note that Russia's advances might be the result of Ukrainian forces withdrawing to "more defensible positions" near Robotyne.








  • Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country.








  • Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piece that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US "neuter" the Western military alliance.










He has worked in both London and Moscow, where he became an expert on Russian propaganda. Now a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Pomerantsev shuttles between Washington, D.C., and Ukraine. I asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine.



More from CBS News



As a result, some of the few remaining independent media in Russia have started to censor themselves. Online, most independent news websites are blocked or restricted, and so are Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The fact that the majority of Russians tune in to TV news means they are inclined to at least hear the Kremlin's message - and possibly believe it. Restrictions on reporting are increasingly severe, and access to almost all independent outlets is blocked or limited - or they censor themselves. "Much of this is required to fight the war in Ukraine, but the Russians, ever adaptive, are using the crucible of war to reform, restructure and re-arm their forces. "It is this disconnect of world view, combined with the willingness to use force, that makes the situation in eastern Europe so very dangerous.











  • To indicate which parts of Ukraine are under control by Russian troops we are using daily assessments published by the Institute for the Study of War with the American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project.








  • It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv.








  • These are people who made very small salaries when they could have made much more by going over to the Kremlin side.








  • My daily walks were my way of saying goodbye to a world, and perhaps even a country, that could never be the same again.










The biggest prize for Russia is Kyiv, the capital city and seat of President Zelensky's government - a city where fighting has already been taking place. Before the war, Russia made demands including a promise that Ukraine would not join a group of countries called Nato. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks are increasing again in some parts of the country but they have not yet had any significant impact. Despite towns and cities suffering heavy shelling, Ukraine has been successful in slowing Russia's troops down considerably and have even taken back control over the previously captured city of Kherson. But in the east of Ukraine where the country borders Russia, military troops are still fighting over territory and many places are still too dangerous for school of any kind. It follows a series of similar drone raids on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, some of which have disrupted fuel production.



Europe



Balazs Orban, chief political aide to the prime minister, said Hungary sent a proposal to the EU over the weekend showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package if other "caveats" were added. Hungary previously said it would block further financial aid to Ukraine, but this morning suggested it was ready to compromise after the EU reportedly drew up plans to hit Budapest's economy. They’re under attack by a Russian Army whose soldiers — young men who have spent their entire lives under Mr. Putin — look forlorn and confused. They were told by their commanders that they were going to the Ukrainian border to take part in logistical drills, only to find themselves at war. Mr. Putin seemingly dreamed of a quick victory with Russian-speaking Ukrainians welcoming their “liberators” with flowers, the Ukrainian Army surrendering en masse and the country’s leaders fleeing in fear. Whatever military “victory” Mr. Putin might find acceptable in his twisted mind, Russia has already suffered a crushing moral defeat.







And it’s not just the usual suspects, the malcontents already known to the Kremlin. Major public figures, prominent journalists and artists have spoken out against the war. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data. And that figure came from among those who agreed to participate at all; Miniailo suspected that the polls were not capturing a majority of the real antiwar sentiment, whatever its size.



Are we heading for World War Three? Experts give their verdicts



The Ukraine government is working with other nations, including the UK, to try to help young people continue their education as much as possible. Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian advance. Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in control of large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kyiv. Recent assessments by the ISW show Russian forces have made advances north of Bakhmut.











  • Lithuania will consider cases individually, but the prime minister clarified that it was "not the duty of other countries to save Russians fleeing mobilisation".








  • Many who study and report on Russia, me included, believe a small percentage of people actively support the war, and a small percentage actively oppose it.








  • "In the short term," says Brig Ben Barry from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, "a successful Russian seizure of Kyiv would be a military and political success with strategic impact.








  • About 10 civilians are believed to have been killed, including six in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv.








  • Resistance has already begun, with a nationwide call-up of men of fighting age and 18,000 automatic weapons being handed out to the citizens of Kyiv, in addition to the uniformed army and reserves who are already putting up stiff resistance.










"Law enforcement agencies and special services are working at the scene," he wrote. The Russian president has intensified a crackdown on opposition since the start of his invasion of Ukraine, and this has ramped up further as the elections have approached. Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US. Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency. " https://gilliam-albrechtsen-4.technetbloggers.de/what-does-the-ukraine-war-mean-for-the-uk-how-russia-invasion-and-putin-sanctions-can-affect-life-in-uk-1708115038 and constructive dialogue is expected to improve relations between states," the Ukrainian president's office said on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app alongside a photo of Mr Szijjarto, Mr Kuleba and Mr Yermak.







As expected, Vladimir Putin has been officially registered as a candidate for the Russian presidential election this March. However, Mr Orban's political director said this morning that Hungary was open to using the EU budget to allow further aid for Ukraine. Hungary has now signalled its readiness for a compromise ahead of an emergency EU summit on Thursday.





He says Europe is rich enough to do so if it has the political will, pointing to a recent report from the Estonian Ministry of Defence suggesting that committing 0.25% of GDP annually towards Ukraine would provide "more than sufficient resources". If the US abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says. A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe. My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. It’s hard to find a Russian family without Ukrainian relatives and friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, chess partners and colleagues.











  • People have young children to look after, cancer and other illnesses to manage, aging parents to care for.








  • The letter "Z" — initially used by Russian forces to identify their own on the battlefield — quickly became a potent pro-war propaganda tool for the Kremlin.








  • "I think the West should ramp-up military assistance to Ukraine, that's the only option," Mr Gudkov says.








  • Hungary has signalled it is ready to compromise on EU funding for Ukraine - after Brussels reportedly prepared to sabotage its economy if it did not comply.








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