are being told their flights have been cancelled. the airline said customers would be given the option to rebook or receive a refund. russia s finance minister has given an indication of the huge financial cost of the war in ukraine to his country. anton siluanov said around eight trillion roubles had been spent to support the russian economy so far, that s roughly us$123 billion. financial reserves, known as the russian national wealth fund, are now being used, with the russian economy struggling under the effect of western sanctions. meanwhile the fighting continues, centred on donbas. russian backed separatist leaders in eastern ukraine say they ve captured the town of lyman, a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying the claim. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has accused moscow of being intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes and that the russian o
have been cancelled. the airline said customers would be given the option to rebook or receive a refund. russia s finance minister has given an indication of the huge financial cost of the war in ukraine to his country. anton siluanov said around eight trillion roubles had been spent to support the russian economy so far that s roughly us$123 billion. financial reserves, known as the russian national wealth fund, are now being used, with the russian economy struggling under the effect of western sanctions. meanwhile, the fighting continues, centred on donbas. russian backed separatist leaders in eastern ukraine say they ve captured the town of lyman, a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying the claim. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has accused moscow of being intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes
economy so far that s roughly $123 billion usd. financial reserves, known as the russian national wealth fund, are now being used with the russian economy struggling under the effect of western sanctions. meanwhile, the fighting continues, centred on donbas. russian backed separatist leaders in eastern ukraine say they ve captured the town of lyman a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying the claim. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has accused moscow of being intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes and that the russian offensive could leave the donbas region uninhabited. earlier, i spoke to michael 0 hanlon, seniorfellow at the brookings institution. i asked him for his assessment of russia s position. in the grand scheme of things, russia has done very badly but tactically, i think they are gaining a town here, a town there, ukraine gains one bac
according to a senior official in the region. the governor of the luhansk region says russian forces are in the city. russian backed separatist leaders say they ve captured the town of lyman. it s a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying this claim. our correspondentjoe inwood is in ukraine and has more. severodonetsk and lysycha nsk severodonetsk and lysychansk are in the far east of ukrainian territory in the donbas, sitting on a river which has been a crucial geographicalfeature on which has been a crucial geographical feature on this war. why this matters is because these two cities are the last bit of the luhansk oblast, the hansk region controlled by the ukrainians. taking that has been a key strategic aim of the russians, basically, since they refocus their objective after their failure to take kyiv. what we are seeing is the russians really putting all of
russian backed separatist leaders say they ve captured the town of lyman. it s a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying this claim. our correspondentjoe inwood is in ukraine and has more. donetsk and luhansk are these two twin cities that are in the rar east of ukrainian territory in the donbas. they sit on a river called the donis river which has been donbas. a crucial geographical feature in this war. why this matters is because these two cities are the last bit of the luhansk, the luhansk region that is controlled by the ukrainians. taking that has been the key strategic aim of the russians, basically since they refocus their objective here after their failure to take kyiv. what we are seeing is the russians really putting all their energies, huge amounts of artillery bombardment of men into trying