"war"

Its gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.1% in the first three months of the year, . That followed a 0.7% contraction in the previous quarter, which means the economy is in a "technical recession".

• RECESSION

Rayan Bashir was evacuated from Wadi Sayyinda military base to London with her four children. She says the family is struggling with an insufficient weekly food budget and has been left in a hotel in Oxford with one room and no kitchen area.

• REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

A key figure in planning and executing this operation is Gen Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's 49-year-old commander-in-chief. Little known until recently, his popularity now rivals that of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

• RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR