Fierce fighting is taking place in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, with Moscow claiming to have seized nine border villages in the area. And in Moscow, Vladimir Putin has replaced a long-time ally. Submit your question on the war for our experts below.
Away from the frontline and Russia's internal politics, Georgians have been protesting against what they say are Russian-style, autocratic laws.reports from the crowd... The governor of the Kharkiv region has said there is a threat of fighting spreading to other settlements.
Sergei Lavrov was quoted by the state-run RIA news agency, following a similar warning from the Kremlin last week. "Both were very close Putin aides, they had been in post a very long time and this comes at a time when Russia has the upper hand on the battlefield - that's why it is so shocking, so baffling, so why did Putin do it?" says Bennett.
"That tells you that Russia, right now, wants to ensure that the military-industrial complex is operating as efficiently as possible," Bennett says."Putin clearly wants to make sure Russia can continue to fight his war for as long as he wants.
"Russian forces are reaping the benefits of the West's long-term restriction on Ukraine using Western-provided weapons to strike legitimate military targets on Russian territory - territory that Russian forces now depend on to sustain their offensive operations in northern Kharkiv." But a Ukrainian soldier has taken the unusual step of publicly criticising Ukraine's preparations to stop Russia from pushing into the northeast of the country - a threat that commanders had been anticipating ever since they repelled a first invasion two years ago.
"They want to drag us back to autocracy to the country they occupied us for too many years," one protester told Sky News. Flank after flank of interior ministry security forces, backed by helmeted riot police and water cannon trucks, are now in a tense standoff with a multicoloured sea of protesters on the corner of the parliament building.
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