good evening, welcome to the programme, we have got a packed two hours for you this evening. including a special investigation tonight into the execution of an unarmed ukrainian soldier. we will tell you who he was and who was involved. and we will get the thoughts of a formerjudge who sat on the panel of the international criminal court. big developments in scotland today, where police have arrested peter murrell, nicola sturgeon s husband, in connection to the snps fundraising and finances. but we will start with the split screen events we have watching through the day, president zelensy in warsaw, emmanuel macron in beijing. it s his first visit to china in four years. and from a chinese perspective, emmanuel macron is probably the most important politician in europe. it is the french president in particular, who has continued to engage with putin to find a diplomatic solution to this war in ukraine. and they see him as the man who can push the european union towards a mor
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the ferocity of the fighting. the same day he was killed, the official telegram channel of the russian ministry of defence claim russian forces in the town conducting their special military operation have killed up to 50 ukrainian military personnel. but there is a bitter divide between the ministry of defence and this man, the man who runs wagner. he was not about to let the army take credit for this advance, and here he is in february congratulating his men who by that time had fought their way to the outskirts of the city. around that same time he was posting on the social media message wrap that it was his man who had taken him. in this post they issue a statement which
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intelligence which belongs to the army and the prosecutor, there is only so much we can do. but let s start with this map that was taken from the social media telegram channel. this group is russian mercenaries who have played a significant role in the fighting in this part of ukraine. this map is dated from the 30th of december, the very day that alexander was executed. if we take it and put it over the top of the google map you will see that there s advancing red is practically right on top of alexander s position. for much of december the russian advanced had stalled, but on the 27th three days before alexander s death the russians spearheaded by this group began advancing from the south and from the east. it is a class six pincer movement. these pictures from shortly after show ukrainian military fighting back. you can see