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‘I have seen some people saying it could be like the second world war’: The battle for the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine is likely to be a brutal and bloody onslaught.

The US has pledged to resume diplomatic operations in Ukraine and said it wanted to see Russia ‘weakened’ by its war after the US secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin paid a visit to Kyiv.

Opinion: Germany’s self-serving Russia policy and its self-inflicted energy dependence found eager supporters across the political party spectrum. They emboldened the Kremlin and enabled Vladimir Putin’s war.