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
thank you forjoining us as ever on bbc news. i want to begin by taking a look at a map of ukraine. this shows how the front line has changed one year on. you have been monitoring this very closely, initially it was thought russia would overpower ukraine in the early days. would overpower ukraine in the early da s. ~ : would overpower ukraine in the early da s.: . we are on the one year anniversary of a lightning special military operation by russia, i think the three day claim you see pushed around is still a bit over wrecked but i think they were looking at about a three week to have everything completed and achieve the objectives they wanted to in ukraine, they pretty much failed to achieve any of their initial objectives one year on, and this will drag on certainly without