BBC Radio 4 From Our Own Correspondent, What do Russians think of the war in Ukraine?

Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US. Russia is India's largest arms supplier, but the war in Ukraine has limited Moscow's ability to provide munitions. Hungary previously said it would block further financial aid to Ukraine, but this morning suggested it was ready to compromise after the EU reportedly drew up plans to hit Budapest's economy. "But if Central/Eastern Europe felt abandoned by those powers, it's not hard to imagine a Polish or even a Ukrainian nuclear program." This could see states like Poland and the Baltics decide to aid Ukraine on their own, which "might leave NATO's eastern front vulnerable and cause a crisis within the EU and European NATO". If  https://euronewstop.co.uk/how-many-aircraft-has-russia-lost-in-ukraine.html  abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says.

One of my brothers-in-law and my father will potentially lose their jobs because their businesses worked very closely with European businesses, and all of those lines of communication are closed off now. I was planning to go see my family right about this time, but it doesn’t seem possible any more. I mean – there is probably a way to go to Russia,  but almost zero way for me to come back to study, and as a new semester is coming, I’m not risking it.

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Much of the largely choreographed event focused on what he calls the "special military operation in Ukraine". Volkov adds that public opinion matters, even though the Russian government isn't taking the public's pulse in order to plan its next moves. He says officials are instead monitoring the situation to make sure that it's "under control." Most ordinary Russians are in the middle, trying to make sense of a situation they didn't choose, don't understand and feel powerless to change.

• As well as their savings falling in value, many Russians are predicted to lose their jobs as the economy reels from being cut off from financial markets in the West.
• I mean – there is probably a way to go to Russia, but almost zero way for me to come back to study, and as a new semester is coming, I’m not risking it.
• Ukrainians throughout this period have never held negative views of Russians and only because of Putin’s aggression have Ukrainian attitudes turned against the Russian state and its leaders.
• That means they're on conflicting sides — and feel the shunning of Russia most of all.

The Arctic is warming up to four times faster than the Earth as a whole. But, since Russia invaded Ukraine, it's been increasingly difficult for climate scientists in Russia to collaborate or share data about conditions in the country's vast frozen areas. Lack of data about conditions in the Russian Arctic is already hampering climate science, and will cause ever-growing gaps in our understanding of how climate change affects the fastest-warming region of the planet, scientists warn. But since the invasion of Ukraine, it has been harder for Russian scientists to share data about how climate change is affecting the region. This tiny chapel is on the grounds of the Northeast Science Station near the Russian town of Chersky. You can argue that it isn’t realistic or human to force all Russians into a black-and-white response—either oppose the war or you are complicit.

Russian forces may try to push again along the entire front, at least to secure all of the Donbas region. Ukraine will probably try to exploit the success it has had in re-establishing its control over the western Black Sea and its vital trade corridor to the Bosphorus. The prospects for an end of the war in Ukraine remain bleak.

Ukraine will press Russia around Crimea

Musicians had a particularly hard time of it, certainly those accustomed to playing before sweaty crowds keen on dancing, something very much forbidden for much of the time. So when the Belgian rock band, Demisec, were offered a gig, they jumped at the chance. The bassist and BBC cameraman Maarten Lernout did not mind that they were being asked to play in a local prison. Russia's biggest opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, is facing 19 years in jail and his team say they have had no access to him for more than a week. The US sees both men as wrongfully detained and Mr Gershkovich's detention was extended on Thursday until 30 January. He was arrested while he was reporting for the newspaper in the city of Yekaterinburg and accused of espionage, which he and his colleagues firmly deny.

Now, those who want to publish and are affiliated with Russia have been asked to withhold applications, though they have not yet been officially withdrawn. The same thing with conferences  – international events that take place in Moscow are all cancelled. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that the older generation is drowning in propaganda and believes that Putin’s actions are justified.

Ukraine war: Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict

The US defence aid package is held hostage by what President Biden rightly labelled "petty politics" in Washington. And the future of the EU's economic aid is seemingly dependent on Hungary's incongruous stance. We asked three military analysts how they think events may unfold in the coming 12 months. Among the most prominent outlets are the Meduza and Mediazona websites - both have been blocked in Russia and both are labelled as "foreign agents" by the Russian government.

Many shout about it openly, but it doesn’t end in anything good. We really want to help, but we haven’t been able to solve problems even in our own country, and now requests are flying around that we stop the war in another country. We write about it on social networks, sign petitions, send money, go to rallies, but so far this hasn’t yielded any results, the government only hits us with a truncheon. I can’t even really tell why they believe what they believe.

• Under a bridge someone has daubed PEACE in big red letters.
• I got a government email saying that we had until March 14 to download all files from Instagram.
• Next, two separatist regions in Donbas, Donetsk and Luhansk, declared their independence from Kyiv.
• The economy hasn’t been stable for a long time and the sanctions haven’t gone away.

"People in Europe won't see any benefit if Moscow receives a pass from Brussels in the form of negativity towards Ukraine. Putin will surely use this against you personally, and against all of Europe," Mr Zelensky said via videolink. "Excuse my vulgarity, but everything is being brought in as a freebie. But those freebies could run out at some point. And it seems that they are gradually running out." He gave no number of military losses, but disclosed that children of people within his "close" circle have fought for so-called private military companies, and a number of people "close to me" have died. He added that Russia's economy was strong for a time of war and the topic of conversation quickly moved to Ukraine. He insisted the situation was improving throughout the front line. The educated and the wealthy, many of them urban residents, are fleeing mobilisation.

Let me - someone who was born and brought up in Ukraine - give you a sense of how people in Ukraine see the situation. "The connotations are not positive, you know? Especially if fish is a big resource for you, you're going to be very skeptical of someone who comes in and dams up fish-bearing streams." It follows a series of similar drone raids on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, some of which have disrupted fuel production. "Law enforcement agencies and special services are working at the scene," he wrote.

On top of that, western scientists no longer have access to field sites in Russia, he says. Instead, they have to rely on what they can see from space, from satellite images of beaver dams. "You can do a lot from space, but you need to have some boots on the ground confirming what you're seeing," Tape explains. In order to build climate models that can accurately predict what will happen to the Arctic in the future, scientists need measurements from across the Arctic. If the available data is concentrated in a few places, like Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, and excludes Russia's vast Arctic expanses, then the models will be increasingly inaccurate, the study finds.

• My mother and I were very afraid for our lives, so the decision was made to leave.
• The US defence aid package is held hostage by what President Biden rightly labelled "petty politics" in Washington.
• Mr Putin said that "there will be peace [in Ukraine] when we achieve our objectives".
• “The conflict between Russia and Ukraine may last for several more years.
• A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe.

“The Russians do not understand the real numbers of losses. … The media gives only authorized information, and the [country at large] 'absorbs’ losses,” she explained. And when it comes to Russian war casualties, Koneva said the losses have been successfully covered up by the country’s strict censorship measures.