Owen Matthews

His plan is to do everything to convince Trump that he is behaving reasonably, while laying down a series of conditions that Zelensky will refuse to accept

But neither was there a trainwreck

Russia’s conquest of north-east Asia and much of the coast of the Pacific north-west is the founding myth of his country’s modern greatness

He can be forgiven for believing that time is on his side

More soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian army than there are fighting men in today’s British, French and German armies combined