We should go for Putin’s weak point – the economy

The best way to put pressure on President Vladimir Putin is to target the Moscow elite with further sanctions.

"Ferocious" fighting for the key transport hub of Debaltseve in Ukraine raged last week even though midnight the previous Sunday marked the start of a "nominal ceasefire" between the Ukrainian troops and the Russian-backed separatist forces, says Roland Oliphant in The Daily Telegraph.

In the wake of the Minsk agreement, separatist leaders were "apparently unwilling to give up" the town when they were so close to victory, and so claimed the ceasefire did not apply to them, while a Ukrainian military spokesman told reporters that under the terms of the agreement, "Debaltseve is ours".

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.