Ukraine

We spoke to the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and Maria Mezentseva, a Ukrainian MP from President Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party.

Goodbye to the old world order – now America says it’s focusing on Asia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said excluding his country from talks between the US and Russia about the war there would be “very dangerous.” 

Krishnan Guru-Murthy and guests talk about how the Ukraine-Russia war is escalating, in this episode of The Political Fourcast.

As the PM ramps up defence spending, the Conservative’s James Heappey and Labour’s Baroness Anderson join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss whether British troops could end up fighting Putin’s war.

In this episode of The Political Fourcast, Nicky Morgan and Charlie Falconer join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how the war in Gaza could change the political fortunes of UK parties.

A meeting of two isolated leaders, usually too afraid of leaving home. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un left his country by armoured train for the first time in four years to meet President Putin in Eastern Siberia. 

President Zelenskyy said it was “absurd” Ukraine had no clear path to membership.

Hubertus Jahn, professor of the history of Russia at Cambridge University, explains how the “mafia boss” in the Kremlin has seen a crack emerge in his enterprise – and who knows what might happen next.

At least three people are now known to have been killed in the massive Russian missile attacks on Ukraine on New Year’s Eve.

As we heard earlier, much of the world is still trying to work out exactly what happened yesterday with the death and resurrection of  Arkady Babchenko. Meanwhile Moscow says the whole escapade is proof of fake news against them. It’s John Le Carre meets Carry ON. Who better to decipher fiction from fact than Andrei…

When someone comes to you and says here’s an order for your killing, do you say: “I’m thinking about the media’s reputation! Let me be killed”? That was the question posed by unrepentant Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who has faced widespread criticism for working with the Ukrainian authorities to fake his own death. The plan…

  The Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko – reportedly murdered in Kiev – turned up alive and well at a news conference in Ukraine. The Ukranian security services said the murder had been staged to expose Russian agents in their country. Mr Babchenko’s wife was not ‘in’ on the subterfuge – she’d said her husband was shot in…