As the Ukraine war grinds on with little sign of Russian president, Vladimir Putin agreeing to a ceasefire we trace the evolution of his attitude towards Ukraine. David Aaronovitch spoke to Vitaly Shevchenko who is Russia editor for BBC Monitoring and co-presenter of the BBC’s Ukrainecast.

Russia’s combat casualties in Ukraine are projected to reach the “grisly milestone” of one million this summer, according to a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. -This staggering figure,

Putin "will continue this game" until Trump hits the Kremlin where it hurts, Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian parliamentarian for the country's southern Odesa region, told Newswee