nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
take part in a contest to succeed nicola sturgeon as scottish national party leader. good afternoon. it s a year since russia launched its invasion of ukraine and there are no signs that the conflict is coming to an end. there have been huge casualties on both sides and millions of people have become refugees. the conflict has also affected the global economy, threatening supplies of food and energy. speaking in kyiv earlier, ukraine s president zelensky says his country will do everything it can to achieve victory this year and wouldn t stop until those he called russian murderers had faced punishment. our international editor, jeremy bowen has reported on the conflict from the very beginning, and has been looking back at the last 12 months with some of those who he s spoken to along the way. the russians expected a quick victory, taking back what president putin believes is theirs. a year later the war is not close to over. ukrainians are fighting back in a war nato bel
ukrainians in the fight. it s the first anniversary of the ukraine war one year since vladimir putin ordered his forces to launch an all out assault on ukraine with the aim of taking kyiv within days. the strategy failed. ukrainian resistance has been fierce though it has come at an immense cost. many have died on the battlefield and accusations of war crimes by the russian troops have shocked the world. president zelensky says the country has endured a year of pain, but victory is inevitable, he says, with continued western support. our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse, reports on how the anniversary was marked. the morning war rained down on ukraine. air raid siren. a shadow with haunting consequences. the once unthinkable playing out as the world looked on. 150,000 russian troops moving in from three directions. ukraine s leader had offers to leave. but he stayed. ..and is still here. this is a bittersweet day for ukraine. day for ukraine, a reminder of remarkable
colleagues throughout the day with more on the stories of those people you have been talking to. 0lga, thank you very much. in the days, weeks and months following the outbreak of war, millions of ukrainians fled to seek safety elsewhere. more than 100,000 of them have arrived here in the uk. 0ur reporter callum tulley has been to meet a group of refugees, to find out how the past year has been for them. a year on from russia s invasion, life looks very different for young ukrainians. hello, guys. nice to see you. this ukrainian cafe has been helping people settle in. i m from a small village near to kiev. from the war started my village was destroyed for 70%. almost all houses and when i saw this, ifelt horrible. but life is continuing, i m trying to make new life here. 0leksandr is one of the thousands of ukrainians who moved to the uk
in the days, weeks and months following the outbreak of war, millions of ukrainians fled to seek safety elsewhere. more than 100,000 of them have arrived here in the uk. our reporter callum tulley has been to meet a group of refugees to find out how the past year has been for them. a year on from russia s invasion, life looks very different for young ukrainians. hello, guys. nice to see you. this ukrainian cafe has been helping people settle in. i m from a small village near to kiev. from the war started, my village was destroyed for 70%. almost all houses and when i saw this, ifelt horrible. but life is continuing, i m trying to make new life here. oleksandr is one of the thousands of ukrainians who moved to the uk last year to escape the war. how have you found the last year here? i would say that i love it because a lot of opportunities,