Russia

February the 24th 2022 was Ukraine’s ‘longest day’ President Zelenskyy said today as he marked a year since the Russian invasion of his country. 

This week marks one year since Putin announced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – one year since tanks rolled across the border, one year since missiles struck the capital and beyond, one year since the post Cold War world changed forever.

In the past year, cultural institutions have been attacked here in the capital and across Ukraine. 

We spoke to Mariia Mesentyeva, a Ukrainian MP from Kharkiv.

We know there are millions of Ukrainians who fled the country in the past 12 months – and a further seven million are estimated to have been internally displaced.

We spoke to Fiona Hill, senior Russia analyst on the US National Security Council under presidents Bush, Obama and Trump.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the Ukraine war – what is the mood like in the southern city of Kherson?

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a war that few here thought would start, let alone grind on for so long at such cost, here the morning was interrupted by air raid sirens.

Evgeny Popov, is an MP for President Putin’s United Russia party and the host of the influential 60 Minutes political news programme which runs on the country’s Rossiya state TV channel.

Fresh from a meeting with China’s top diplomat in Moscow, Russia’s President Putin today appeared at a patriotic rally attended by thousands and praised what he called “heroic” Russian troops involved in the fighting in Ukraine.

We’re joined in Kyiv by Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Igor Zhovkva.

We’re joined by former Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov.

Hours after Vladimir Putin stepped down from his podium in Moscow, Joe Biden stepped up to his own in Warsaw.

What tanks mean for Ukraine – and why some countries have been reluctant to send them.

£32 billion – the profits made by Shell last year were the highest in their 115-year history, largely due to the spike in energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the company, which is based in the UK, is paying windfall tax of just £109 million pounds here because it makes most of its…