Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piece that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US neuter the Western military alliance. A prominent war expert has warned the US is on the verge of diminishing its support for or even withdrawing from NATO - and this could have catastrophic consequences for Europe. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at Meanwhile Russia's currency, the rouble, fell to an all-time low against the dollar and the euro. People were out on the streets last night in this city - they were waving the Ukrainian flag. They said this was their land. They were going nowhere, she reported. Many people in Kyiv have sought shelter in underground metro stations. Was Putin really going to start a war with Ukraine? he asked. For centuries Muscovites have come here to build homes and businesses and get on quietly with their lives, leaving their rulers to pursue greater ambitions on a bigger stage where ordinary Russians have never had a part to play. How Putin changed his war aims Those standing against Mr Putin in the upcoming election, including anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin, have until Wednesday to gather the required number of supporters' signatures to back their campaigns. https://euronewstop.co.uk/who-is-allies-with-ukraine.html has been highly critical of the EU's financial and military aid for Ukraine and has maintained close ties with Russia. Only aircraft deployed to protect energy facilities, or those carrying top Russian or foreign officials, will be allowed to fly with special permission in the designated zones, according to the Vedomosti daily newspaper. A little earlier, we told you about a report in the Financial Times that the EU was proposing to sabotage Hungary's economy if Budapest blocks further aid for Ukraine this week. The educated and the wealthy, many of them urban residents, are fleeing mobilisation. One-quarter of respondents say they already feel the effect of those sanctions, according to Volkov. But Putin’s invasion has accelerated a growing sense of a need to reassert a Ukrainian identity once and for all. People get used even to war, especially if they live far from the battleground. The economy hasn’t been stable for a long time and the sanctions haven’t gone away. Travel is hard – you can’t go anywhere with a Russian passport. Russia-Ukraine: What do young Russians think about the war? We have VK (a Russian substitute for Facebook), but it’s not the same. It was rather cheap, but now I want to buy AirPods and they’re really expensive. They were 7,000 roubles and now cost more than 14,000 roubles. I was planning to go see my family right about this time, but it doesn’t seem possible any more. I mean – there is probably a way to go to Russia, but almost zero way for me to come back to study, and as a new semester is coming, I’m not risking it. In contrast, Ukraine’s three presidents since the 2004 Orange Revolution never organized anti-Russian media campaigns. Ukrainians throughout this period have never held negative views of Russians and only because of Putin’s aggression have Ukrainian attitudes turned against the Russian state and its leaders. Ukrainian citizens—unlike Russians—distinguish between Russian leaders and state institutions, which three-quarters of them abhor, and the Russian people, whom a majority of Ukrainians continue to view positively. Many shout about it openly, but it doesn’t end in anything good. What do Russians think of Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Even if the baseline result may be affected by self-censorship ... shifts in the trend over time show that people are willing to report changes in opinion, she wrote. Trended data can also be very informative about the direction of changes in public opinion even if the magnitude is exaggerated. Not surprisingly, the major shift in opinion took place after 2014. A major gulf in attitudes rose regarding Crimea, whose annexation was supported by 87 percent of Russians and opposed by 69 percent of Ukrainians. In Russia, both pro-Putin supporters and anti-Putin oppositionists like Alexei Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky backed the annexation of Crimea. A month into the invasion and his campaign goals were dramatically scaled back after a retreat from Kyiv and Chernihiv. If researchers exclude this group and also exclude the 20% of Russians who admit they oppose the war, that leaves about half of the country's population who researchers say support the war only at the declarative level. They were 7,000 roubles and now cost more than 14,000 roubles. We asked three military analysts how they think events may unfold in the coming 12 months.
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