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The words of Russia’s own propagandists need to be taken as statements of intent rather than rhetorical hyperbole. They also show how they need the West’s ambivalence to win.
However, Hungary will neither contribute money, send people to Ukraine’s aid, nor permit Hungarian territory to be used to help Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, Orban said.
Nearly 80 percent of respondents left Russia after 2014, the year Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Of them, 44 percent fled after the full-scale invasion.
G7 leaders hope to agree a deal on using the profits from the interest on 300 billion euros ($325 billion) of frozen Russian central bank assets to help Kyiv.
Moscow said it had no interest in joining the meeting and so was not invited by hosts Switzerland, while Kyiv wants to get some concrete outcomes from the meeting to take forward to a second summit.
Milbloggers have posted footage of Russian military engineers apparently driving a captured Ukrainian T-72AMT tank converted to be driven remotely. Commentators try to work out why.
Zelensky addresses Bundestag in Berlin amid extremist boycotts; NATO Secretary General meets Hungary’s Orban in Budapest; Ukrainian naval drones have Russia’s Black Sea Fleet fleeing to Azov Sea.