Vitaliy Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Getty Images A file photo shows a woman and child walking past a poster proclaiming “For Russia! For the President! For Sevastopol!” “Russians are trying to ban everything Ukrainian here: language, and also traditions. Even Ukrainian holidays are forbidden.” This is the sorrow and fear of a rarely heard...
Israel’s defence minister has told the military to “seize additional areas in Gaza” and threatened to permanently occupy parts of it, if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages. Israel Katz said that the military would continue its ground operation in Gaza “with increasing intensity” until all of the hostages “both living and dead” were...