you could join us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. there has been no immediate reaction from kyiv to those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets. a move moscow had criticised. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic t
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sponsorship revenue. it banned city from european club competitions for two years, but the club s position remained unequivocal. the most important thing i have to say today is that the allegations are not true. and city took the matter to cas, the court of arbitration for sports and contested all of the charges, including the sponsorship allegation. when the case went before cas, the verdict was that they couldn t find any compelling evidence to say that that was the case. and that s why city s champions league ban was lifted. city were back in europe, but that wasn t all. the ruling said city did fail to cooperate with uefa authorities and that most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time barred. in other words, some alleged breaches weren t considered on a technicality. they d been brought too late. 0ne academic describes that in these terms. in my personal view, what things happened is we ve been able to exploit a few