Good morning, and welcome to our live rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets. The cost of living crisis has knocked UK consumer confidence down to its lowest level since the pandemic, as rising food and energy bills hammer families. There has been a “significant and sustained drop-off in consumer sentiment”, leading to the … Read more
I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the killed people in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel. What did they do? Why were they killed? What did the man who was riding his bicycle down the street do? Why were ordinary civilians in an ordinary peaceful city tortured to death? … Read more
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Agence France Presse has filed a dispatch from Irpin after a Russian retreat returned it to Ukrainian control. The city suffered extraordinary levels of destruction and an evacuation operation continues. The last survivors in the ruins of Irpin have just one word to describe the Russians who have retreated after one of the pivotal battles … Read more
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, is making a statement to MPs now setting out the government’s response to the sacking of 800 workers by P&O Ferries. There are nine measures, he says. First, HM Revenue and Customs will get new resources to check ferry operators are complying with minimum wage law, he says. HMRC will … Read more
Latest updates: the former PM says the west should not give up on the possibility of negotiating a peace deal with Vladimir Putin Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates More than 100,000 Britons offer to take in Ukrainian refugees UK to impose sanctions on 370 more Russians Only five of 138 MPs in fracking target areas voice … Read more
5.06am GMT 05:06 Explosions heard in Lviv this morning Reports of explosions heard this morning in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv are filtering in from reporters and witnesses on the ground. Guardian reporter Lorenzo Tondo said it is the third consecutive night residents have been woken by air raid sirens. Multiple explosions were heard shortly … Read more
After an initial honeymoon period with the west, Russian president Vladimir Putin later soured on it. He has clawed back Russian relevance by tearing up global norms, writes the Guardian’s world affairs editor Julian Borger. When the first McDonald’s in Moscow opened 32 years ago, the line of Russians waiting outside was hundreds of metres … Read more
Victor Zhora, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, emphasized his department was planning for a contingency, but that it is being considered at all suggests Ukrainians want to be ready for any Russian threat to seize sensitive government documents. “We are preparing the ground,” Zhora said. Plan A … Read more
Good morning. “Where are all these mansions [being] seized?”, a Ukrainian activist asked Boris Johnson angrily in Poland last week. The question reflected a concern that the UK has not done enough to directly penalise Russian oligarchs who operate in the UK. But this morning Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, said that he had effectively … Read more