Prof Serhii Plokhy says Putin 'came to power with the idea that Russian greatness should be restored' - and historically he has often turned to 'military might' when 'soft power' failed to achieve his aims. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YouTube
Putin's attempt to blackmail Europe using energy has 'failed', official says
"One year on, we can say that Putin's attempt to blackmail Europe using energy has failed and more importantly for the long term we have massively invested in renewables," Ms Simson said.
Three new ships were authorised today to take part in a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, the UN has said. Speaking at a gathering in Kyiv to mark the anniversary of the mass Soviet-era deportation of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula in 1944, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that more countries now realised it was impossible"to return peace to international relations and the full force of international law" without first returning Crimea.
Some 200,000 Crimean Tatars were deported to Siberia and Central Asia under the orders of Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944. But he accused commanders of Russia's regular forces of abandoning ground north and south of the city, raising the risk of troops inside being encircled.
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