2022-02-28
Financial Times Front Page 28th of February 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put his nuclear forces on alert is the lead in the Financial Times.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put his nuclear forces on alert is the lead in the Financial Times.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has drawn up a new hit list of Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned, the paper reports, amid warnings the conflict in Ukraine could last up to a decade.
Brave battalions of civilians have joined forces with Ukrainian soldiers in a defiant stand to protect their homeland, the Daily Express writes.
The paper quotes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowing to “destroy the occupiers”.
The Daily Mirror says 18,000 machine guns have been handed to civilians who are volunteering to fight for the capital – with Ukraine’s president declaring: “We are not afraid.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “not going the way President Putin wants – very far from it,” The Sunday Telegraph’s front page says, quoting Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Vladimir Putin is facing growing international isolation and the prospect of pariah status, The Observer reports.