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Footballers Oleksandr Zinchenko and Vitaliy Mykolenko, who are both from Ukraine, were seen running up to each other and embracing during the warm-up of the game between their clubs Manchester City and Everton at Goodison Parktoday.
Everton supporters’ groups also held a banner in solitary with Mykolenko, which had the words"We stand with Ukraine" written on it.Meanwhile, Zinchenko wore a t-shirt with the message,"No War".Keir Starmer urges government to expose Russian oligarchs buying up property in UK Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to come forward with legislation as quickly as possible to expose Russian oligarchs who hide their wealth by buying up property in the UK. Boris Johnson said on Thursday that ministers would set out measures before Easter for a register of overseas property ownership. Following reports that the government was preparing to fasttrack the legislation, Sir Keir has now said Labour would support such a move. During a trip to Birmingham, he said:"The government says it is bringing forward primary legislation. My message to them is 'Get on with it'. We will fully support it. "It can go through parliament very, very quickly. We have been calling for this legislation to break open companies to see who the real beneficiaries are for years. "This will now go through because we will support it but it won't be enforced for months to come so I am frustrated that it has taken this long for the government to come forward."UK and US among 27 nations which have agreed to give more weapons and military aid to country, Sky News understands More than two dozen nations, including the UK, other European countries, and the US, will give more weapons, medical supplies and other military aid to Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion, Sky News understands. The UK has offered to conduct"logistics operations" to support the delivery of the donations, a defence source said. British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, organised a donor conference of military aid on Friday evening, which was held virtually. Some 25 nations were on the call and all said they would continue to contribute aid, some saying for the first time their support will include lethal assistance. NATO was also represented.Polish politician 'disappointed' over Germany's opposition to expel Russia from SWIFTSitting here on the border between Poland and Ukraine, I’m still getting regular messages from EU diplomats and many of them contain the same word - SWIFT. It seems that Germany is now the only nation that opposes a move to expel Russia from the crucial banking system, and the pressure is growing by the moment. France and Italy have both indicated they would support the decision while, here in Poland, there is exasperation that a decision has not been taken already. I spoke to Michael Dworczyk, the chief of the Chancellery - a job akin to being the prime minister's Chief of Staff, and his sense of anger was obvious. “It’s great disappointment that particular interests of certain countries such as Germany are more important than moral obligations when it comes to helping Ukrainians and punishing Russians because Russians today act as bandits,” he told me.
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