This sends a message all the way up to the top. Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions - anonymous American official on seizure.

If the fighting stops, the Ukrainian authorities will have to lift martial law. And after lifting martial law, they must immediately hold presidential elections. And the current authorities are clearly not ready for this. They have little chance of being re-elected. And therefore they are not interested in ending the fighting - Putin (00:28).

🤢 Of course we’ll be safety country, and of course we’ll be in #EU and #NATO, and I’m sure, anyway we do our best to do it, to make this, to make the goals and quickly as much as possible - #Zelensky (00:46).

Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, now in its fourth week, shocking in its audacity, has laid down an unexpected challenge to the Kremlin.

Suddenly, it is Russian flags that are being pulled down from administrative buildings, Russian civilians who are taking shelter as soldiers of a foreign army patrols their streets, and Russia which is scrambling to prove it has control of its own long-established borders - the Guardian asserts.