Latest updates: conflict forecasted to further push up energy prices and inflation, says Resolution Foundation thinktankRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe bakery chain Greggs has warned of spiralling cost pressures as commodity prices surge following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, adding it will have to raise prices further, my colleague Julia Kollewe reports.Here are the main points from Ben Wallace’s morning interview round.Once [Ukrainian refugees have] got to safety, making sure we just check their identity before they come to this country, it is incredibly important that we do that.It shouldn’t take time. And I’ve offered, I will be offering, to the Home Office assistance from the MoD in the same way we did in Op Pitting [the evacuation of Afghanistan] to increase the processing time to help those people.I know the home secretary is determined to speed [the process] up …Of course, we can do that quicker, we are leaning into that, the home secretary is determined to do that quicker, I will give her all the support I can.This will be Putin’s end, this country, and so it should be because of, not only their spirit and the moral component that they have on their side – the Ukrainians – but also because it will be an impossible task to occupy such a people and a country.Whatever we think about President Putin, he is done. He is a spent force in the world. No one will be taking his phone calls in the long term.He has exhausted his army, he is responsible for thousands of Russian soldiers being killed, responsible for innocent people being killed, civilians being killed in Ukraine.Either when the Russian forces are so stuck and defeated that the Russian armed forces effectively turn in on itself and the generals get blamed and then it grinds to a halt, or Russia imposes its total will, which it is already trying to do by trying to break the people of Ukraine.Putin won’t break the people of Ukraine but … he is doing everything he can to break the country’s infrastructure and their supply lines for food.Poland will understand that the choices it makes will not only directly help Ukraine, which is a good thing, but also may bring them into direct line of fire from countries such as Russia or Belarus.They will have to calibrate that. That’s a really big responsibility on the shoulders of the president of Poland and, indeed, defence minister. Continue reading…
Latest updates: conflict forecasted to further push up energy prices and inflation, says Resolution Foundation thinktank
The bakery chain Greggs has warned of spiralling cost pressures as commodity prices surge following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, adding it will have to raise prices further, my colleague Julia Kollewe reports.
Here are the main points from Ben Wallace’s morning interview round.
Once [Ukrainian refugees have] got to safety, making sure we just check their identity before they come to this country, it is incredibly important that we do that.
It shouldn’t take time. And I’ve offered, I will be offering, to the Home Office assistance from the MoD in the same way we did in Op Pitting [the evacuation of Afghanistan] to increase the processing time to help those people.
I know the home secretary is determined to speed [the process] up …
Of course, we can do that quicker, we are leaning into that, the home secretary is determined to do that quicker, I will give her all the support I can.
This will be Putin’s end, this country, and so it should be because of, not only their spirit and the moral component that they have on their side – the Ukrainians – but also because it will be an impossible task to occupy such a people and a country.
Whatever we think about President Putin, he is done. He is a spent force in the world. No one will be taking his phone calls in the long term.
He has exhausted his army, he is responsible for thousands of Russian soldiers being killed, responsible for innocent people being killed, civilians being killed in Ukraine.
Either when the Russian forces are so stuck and defeated that the Russian armed forces effectively turn in on itself and the generals get blamed and then it grinds to a halt, or Russia imposes its total will, which it is already trying to do by trying to break the people of Ukraine.
Putin won’t break the people of Ukraine but … he is doing everything he can to break the country’s infrastructure and their supply lines for food.
Poland will understand that the choices it makes will not only directly help Ukraine, which is a good thing, but also may bring them into direct line of fire from countries such as Russia or Belarus.
They will have to calibrate that. That’s a really big responsibility on the shoulders of the president of Poland and, indeed, defence minister.