"It’s a zugzwang in chess. When every move you do, you’re getting into a worse position on the chessboard. In Ukraine, we are prepared for that." Is this the beginning of the end for Putin? #TimesRadio asks former Ukrainian diplomat Alexander Khara.

"The war has gone as bad as possible for Putin. He now finds himself having to explain himself to his hardliners, to his army, to his people – all of them are unhappy." Putin is ‘desperate, not stupid’, former head of the foreign office Lord McDonald tell...