Scrutiny of oligarchs should be thorough but fair
Boris Johnson continues to face questions about specific Russian oligarchs who have been spared sanctions. They include Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, and senior…
How Marvel fans are turning Ukraine’s plight into dark ‘entertainment’
Not content with their monopoly on cinema box-office charts and industry budgets, Marvel enthusiasts have found a new outlet for their online fan-fiction: the war in Ukraine….
How Marvel fans are turning Ukraine’s plight into dark ‘entertainment’
Not content with their monopoly on cinema box-office charts and industry budgets, Marvel enthusiasts have found a new outlet for their online fan-fiction: the war in Ukraine….
Watch: The Russia-Ukraine war and the week that changed the world
February 24, 2022: The day that changed everything when Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine. Thursday marks a week since war broke out and, with the help of…
Vladimir Putin resorts to brutal bombardments after ‘Western’ approach to Ukraine invasion fails
For months, perhaps even for years, Vladimir Putin has been readying his forces for a quick decapitation of the Ukrainian government through a lightning offensive with minimum…
Vladimir Putin’s ‘dark military logic’ of targeting civilian infrastructure
The Kremlin will be hoping that other towns will follow suit. In Kyiv, leaders will be urging other local leaders to hold fast. There is a dark…
Footballers on the front line: How stars made escape from the ‘worst place on earth’
Eventually, the 23-year-old and his friends arrived at the border, but soon found out that crossing to Poland would be virtually impossible. For four days, they tried…
BP and Shell’s long-standing Kremlin links expose the ‘ethical’ investing charade
As Moscow’s bombs rain down on cities across Ukraine, triggering a potential refugee emergency, the tolerance for BP and Shell’s Russian operations suddenly looks like an astonishing…
Athlone House, Mikhail Fridman’s monument to the power of Russian oligarchs
Sprawled over five acres of land, Athlone House is one of the grandest Victorian properties in the Highgate enclave beloved by the super-rich. The prime real estate,…
Ex-Soviet colonel can keep flying his jumbo jets to Britain
A cargo airline owned by a former Soviet military colonel and one-time ally of Vladimir Putin is free to fly its jumbo jets into the UK, The…
JCB, Burberry and Asos join widening corporate boycott of Russia
Separately, energy giant Exxon Mobil said it would exit Russia oil and gas operations that it has valued at more than $4bn. The decision will see Exxon…
Russia’s financial system teeters on the brink of collapse
Russia’s options in fighting back also face western sanctions. Moscow has built up foreign exchange reserves to more than $630bn, from $356bn in 2015, but Berenberg Bank…
For the first time, I am starting to regret choosing to have children
I’m starting to regret having children. This is, for me, the most extreme side effect of peering over the abyss created by Putin’s war. The future –…
Xi Jinping will exploit Putin’s Ukraine discomfort for his own ends
On February 4, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping renewed their marriage vows in a joint statement. They declared “no limit to their friendship, no restricted area…
Direct military action over Ukraine would be a disaster
“He has no idea what’s coming”, Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin in his State of the Union address yesterday. His speech in defence of democracy was…
The West is clinging to the delusion that its survival can be bought cheap
Vladimir Putin’s criminally obscene invasion of Ukraine has changed everything. Britain and the West have been plunged back into what, at best, will become a lengthy new…
Ukraine-Russia evening briefing: Five key developments as civilian death toll ‘hits 2,000’
Good evening. After the first week of war in Ukraine, the civilian death toll has passed 2,000, according to Ukrainian officials. It comes as the city of…
France hits out at UK’s ‘overly restrictive’ approach to Ukrainian refugees
Foreign Office officials had already been working down a “hit list” of potential oligarch targets and continue to do so, with more than 80 people developing new…
Ben Wallace: No-fly zone over Ukraine would only bolster Russia
The repulsion of Russian tanks and troops in Kyiv and elsewhere had largely depended on air support, Mr Wallace said, which could not happen if a no-fly…
Vladimir Putin’s commanders will be hunted down for war crimes, says Dominic Raab
Mr Raab, a former lawyer who prosecuted war criminals, said he was in discussions with Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, on the UK’s precise role but added:…
Russian troops in disarray and ‘crying’ in combat, radio messages reveal
Other videos showed troops apparently deserting. In one clip, a group of about a dozen Russian troops, with their backpacks and rifles, were seen walking away from…
Putin ‘angry and lashing out at inner circle’, US intelligence claims
The comment was particularly striking because Mr Medvedev has never been seen as a hawk. He served as a stand-in president for Mr Putin from 2008 to…
Supermarkets of Britain: we need you to rename the chicken Kiev
But is the chicken Kiev actually a dish of Kiev or is it in fact a rather long, red herring of fake news? Tragically, given what has…
A moving roar of solidarity with Ukraine filled the Commons … even Sir Lindsay Hoyle tore up his rulebook
“We generally do not allow applause in this chamber”, explained Hoyle, “but on this occasion the House quite rightly wants to demonstrate our respect and support for…
‘Russia is waging a battle of civilisations’: Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers
In my column this week, I argued that Putin’s nihilistic fascism could alter the course of history and that the West should focus on preventing the war…