War in Ukraine

Analysis

On the ground

Q&A: Big protests, brief talks and pressure on Zelensky

Ukraine saw nationwide demonstrations over controversial anti-corruption reforms.
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  1. A fuzzy image of two men holding Russian flags on a road - one of the flags is a tricolour the other is a red military flag

  2. A pile of disposable vapes. They are blue, green and gold.

  3. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, his grey hair short and face sombre, holds red and white flowers as he walks in a dark suit on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his hair and beard dark and short, wears a black traditional Ukrainian outfit with white embroidery around the collar and in a line down the front. His wife, Olena Zelenska, wears a white suit. The couple wear sombre expressions and both carry yellow and blue flowers. A soldier walks in the background.

  4. Paul Hands at the entrance of an air raid shelter in Kyiv.

  5. Nataliia Revkova and Nadiia Hoian smile at the camera. They are sat next to each other in a radio studio. Nataliia has dark hair that is tied up and she has a fringe. Headphones rest around her neck. Nadiia has long blonde hair that is tied up and she wears her headphones.

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  7. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, dressed in his signature black, gesticulates as he addresses a joint press conference in Kyiv. Behind him his the Ukrainian flag.

  8. A woman and a man arm in arm, holding up a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag behind them as they stand on Bristol's College Green. They are both wearing Ukrainian-style embroidered clothes.

  9. Annie Lewis Marffy in a yellow top sitting outdoors at a wooden table. In the background, there are other people seated at tables, trees, and a blue sky with some clouds.

  10. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  11. EU Commission Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas gives a press conference prior to the EU Foreign Affairs meeting.

  12. A treated image of a hypersonic missile North Korea claims to have test-fired

  13. A headshot of Putin against a blue background

  14. Firefighters work at the site of a residential area hit during Russian drone and missile strikes in Lviv

  15. Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022

  16. Ukrainian women dressed in red skirts and white decorated tops at last year's UkraineFest. They are also wearing red head dresses.

  17. Anti-drone nets hang over a quiet rural road in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk.

  18. Map of Ukraine with image of tanks in foreground

  19. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump pictured side-by-side on the tarmac of an airbase with a large blue aircraft blurred in the background. The men are mid-conversation and leaning in towards one another. Both are wearing dark suits with white shirts. Putin wears a maroon tie while Trump's is bright red. Trump also wears a pin of the US flag on his lapel.

  20. Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, wearing a black suit, attends a meeting in Washington.

  21. President Zelensky (left) and President Trump inside the Oval office

  22. Donald Trump talks to European leaders across a table in the Oval Office.

  23. A side by side image of Melania Trump with a straight face, her light hair long, wearing a white shirt, beside Olena Zelenska, her expression neutral and hair blonde, wearing a grey jacket

  24. Sir Keir Starmer sitting at glossed wooden table in White House meeting with other leaders. The camera is on him as he speaks. Starmer is gesturing with his left hand and is wearing a black blazer, a white shirt and a patterned blue tie. There are blue flowers in front of him on the table. Behind, sit three men against the wall - the heads are out of shot, but they are wearing suits, white shirts and a stripy navy and white tie, a red tie and a red tie respectively from left to right.