War in Ukraine

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Q&A: Trump's sanctions, Putin's nuclear drills, and Zelensky's poll ratings

Your questions answered as the US puts new sanctions on Russian oil companies.
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  1. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone speaks during a BBC interview

  2. Artillerymen of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade fire an M114 self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near Pokrovsk

  3. Putin sitting in front of a table with tea and cakes, flanked by veterans

  4. Diana Loginova sits with her head on her clasped hands in a court in St Petersburg, wearing glasses with transparent frames under her blonde hair

  5. A man sits behind glass in the dock in court, his face pixelated.

  6. A gunner turns away from a canon as it fires a shell.

  7. A man walks around a market as a fire burns at the site of a missile strike

  8. Flames are seen next to burnt out vehicles and a bombed building. Grey smoke billows into a a cloudy sky.

  9. Oleksandr Volobuev carries a young child out of a kindergarten hit by a Russian drone

  10. Trump looking at Xi, their faces quite close, with the flags of their countries behind them.

  11. Custody shots of Jake Reeves, left, and Dylan Earl

  12. Zelensky and Starmer at podiums, with flags in the background

  13. Sir Keir Starmer, wearing a blue suit, shaking hands with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, draped in all-black, outside the door of Number 10 Downing Street

  14. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

  15. Victor Kiryanov, president of the Russian Automobile Federation, with then-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone at the Russian grand prix in Sochi in 2017

  16. On the left is a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing a black tie and suit and white shirt, his eyebrows raised, looking serious. On the right is a picture of US President Donald Trump also looking serious, wearing a blue suit, red tie and white shirt.

  17. Trump and Putin in Alaska

  18. A general view shows the oil refinery of the Lukoil company in Volgograd, Russia

  19. A man looks at a destroyed building in Kyiv

  20. A solider with his face covered

  21. Firefighters trying to put down fire after strike on Belgorod, Russia

  22. A man runs from the scene of a blast in Kharkiv

  23. low-observable, long range air launched cruise missile displayed at Paris Air Show with the MBDA logo. The air to surface weapon from the European manufacturer MBDA at the company's booth at International Paris Air Show 2025 in Le Bourget Airport

  24. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shake hands in front of lettering that reads "pursuing"