Russia

We spoke to leading human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice, who led the prosecution of the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

They will not surrender. The besieged city of Mariupol remains defiant tonight, despite what one Ukrainian MP called a Russian attempt to starve it into submission.

The situation in the city of Mariupol in the south gets more desperate. The local authority said an arts school, where four hundred people were thought to be sheltering, was hit by shelling. 

We spoke to the former Prime Minister of Russia, Mikhail Kasyanov, who is a critic of Vladimir Putin now, and an opposition figure.

We spoke to Environment Secretary George Eustice and we began by asking him when we can expect the next election – next year or the year after?

The war in Ukraine featured heavily in the speech given by Boris Johnson at the Conservative Party’s spring conference today.

“Big cities in Poland are overcrowded and we will soon no longer be able to accommodate them”, is the warning from the mayors of the country’s two largest cities about the pressure being put on them by the numbers of refugees arriving.

Earlier we spoke to former Russian MP and Putin supporter Natalya Narochnitskaya. 

On day 24, Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces reached the centre of the southern city of Mariupol. Street fighting between Russia and Ukraine’s soldiers has begun.

On today’s episode of The Fourcast, Georgina Lee from our FactCheck team talks through four possible ways the war in Ukraine might end. 

China has indicated it is willing to give its military support to Russia’s invasion. That’s the claim of American diplomats tonight, despite their attempts to head off any agreement to transfer Chinese weapons. 

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced that sanctions have been imposed on a further 386 members of the Russian Duma for their support for the Ukrainian breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. 

We spoke to Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, the editor-in-chief of the Russian independent news TV-channel Dozhd and author of All the Kremlin’s Men.  

US and European nations have accused Russia of using the UN Security Council to promote disinformation about the US funding biological weapons in Ukraine. 

We spoke to Philip Breedlove, former Nato supreme commander under Barack Obama, and began by asking him whether he thinks Russia is winning or losing this war.