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If you want an idea of the Russian perspective on events, you can visit the Russian state owned website https://ria.ru/ and automatically translate into English in Chrome. As it happens, there is relatively little coverage of matters in Ukraine; the current top story being about a supposed...

I genuinely don’t think I’ve seen a more controversial decision than that in boxing. That was Catterall’s by a considerable margin - the stats showed he threw almost twice as many punches and connected at a far higher rate than Taylor, let alone the state of Taylor’s face, tells the whole story...

This, regrettably, seems inevitable. Putin will not lose this war (at least in the military sense) - the stronger the Ukrainian resistance, the stronger the Russian retaliation will be. For stronger, you can also read more indiscriminate, as thermobaric weapons are. He seems solely focused on...

FIFA of course aren’t renowned for taking the right moral stance on things, but I think they have little choice on this one. The entire world seems to have taken a dim view of Russia’s actions and even their own allies are refusing to stand with them. The discontent of the Russian people is one...

It’s refreshing and slightly surprising to see the strong and unified stance top sport has taken against this. It’s rare for politics to greatly interfere with sport beyond the odd slogan on a t-shirt or symbolic gesture; but the fact that associations are prepared to spite themselves for the...

Make no mistake, this is absolutely incredible. Astonishingly brave. We are talking here about multi-millionaires with fantastic lifestyles. With wives, with children. They have the ability to exist, with or without the sovereignty of their nation. They have no need to do this. All could have...

Apologies. Wasn’t trying to be fear-mongering; was just rather laying it down as I see it. Which is probably and hopefully very, very wrong.

Having lost the Champions League final, Formula One has now cancelled the Russian Grand Prix. They really are isolating themselves from the world. Or rather Putin is.

There seems to be an misunderstanding from some quarters that we can wrestle control of this situation; we can’t. Sanctions will not halt Putin’s invasion of Ukraine; he will have been well prepared for those. We cannot put troops on the ground in Ukraine because, as you suggest, a meeting of...

What a world we live in when this is necessary. Lord above.

They do, but I still question the sanity of what is happening. The best case scenario, it seems, is Ukraine is decimated and gobbled up by Russia. What that means for it’s people, I can’t even comprehend. The worst case scenario? Nah, fúck it, I don’t even want to go there. Hopefully it never...

What does Putin have to gain financially, from this? As a very minimum there are going to be a lot of dead men, women and children on his watch, and potentially the destruction of his own country and the developed world. That is not the product of sane decision making, which is my concern.

Been a busy day work-wise so having sat down with a (strong) beer, this is the first time I’ve had to properly reflect. First of all, I feel huge sorrow and regret for the Ukrainian people. Seeing photos of injured civilians, peoples homes levelled, children sleeping rough in underground...

I hope you’re right, but the consensus seems to be that Kyiv will have fallen to the Russians by tomorrow. I’m no expert, but the notion of the country’s capital falling within 48 hours of the invasion doesn’t suggest the resistance is going to be particularly strong in relative terms.

I’m not convinced any level of sanction will stop Putin in carrying out his intentions, whatever they are. Russia is in Ukraine and going through it like a knife butter, with a great many civilian lives list along the way. To have gone ahead with this, he’s committed to being in it for the long...

Can nations unilaterally just leave NATO and join the other side? It rather makes a mockery of the treaty if so.

He also says he believes that Putin’s intention is to reunite the former Soviet Union. Given that three of those countries are now NATO members, that would clearly be a problem should that be the case and he decides to go through with it.

As the father of a 5 year old girl who’s been absolutely terrified by the wind of late, this really upset me. Total disregard for civilians, including children. War is a dirty business, but this just feels so, so unnecessary.

That’s a very precarious situation in itself, though, isn’t it. NATO and Russian troops in shooting distance of one another is a global disaster only one itchy trigger finger away.

How do you get that buffer though when NATO members Latvia and Estonia already border Russia?