Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday his campaign in Ukraine was going to plan and would not end until Kyiv stopped fighting. Efforts to evacuate 200,000 people from the heavily bombarded city of Mariupol fell apart for the second day in a row.
Newstalk Breakfast spoke to Russian security expert and writer, Andrei Soldatov also James Waterhouse is the BBC’s Kyiv correspondent brought us up to speed on what this morning is bringing from Ukraine.
Ukraine MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak who was born and raised in Mariupol spoke to us this morning.