Ukraine war: How Russia took the south – and then got stuck
The story of Russia’s rapid advance in southern Ukraine, told by the people who managed to stop it. …
On 22 February 2022 at 19:15, the secretary of Ukraine’s security council Oleksiy Danilov received a red folder with secret documents. They warned that the president’s life was under imminent threat. Immediately, Mr Danilov contacted the head of the security services, the interior minister, prime minister and President Volodymyr Zelensky himself.