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A Ukrainian intelligence chief has said that the Kremlin, unable to make significant progress in the invasion, will look to split Ukraine in two – that’s on the front of The Times.

Russia is “retreating” to the east of Ukraine, says the Times. It comes after a defence ministry official said the country’s military was set to “focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal – the liberation of Donbas”.The paper says it’s an “apparent admission that attacking Ukraine on multiple fronts was no longer achievable”.

The Times reports on the US president’s warning that NATO would respond if chemical weapons are used in Ukraine.

The chancellor’s tax cuts will not ease the heaviest burden on the British public in the post-war era, The Times reports.

Russia has been threatening civilians in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to The Times. It has allegedly told them they face being brought before a “military tribunal”.

Boris Johnson has likened Ukraine’s battle with Russia to Brexit at his party’s spring conference in Blackpool, which was watched by the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, The Sunday Times says.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned that Russia is using peace talks with Ukraine as a “smokescreen” while it prepares to carry out more war crimes, The Times writes. 

An investigation by the Times has found hundreds of civil servants at the DVLA have done no work while on full pay for long periods of the pandemic while managers boasted of watching Netflix at the public’s expense. Meanwhile, Putin is facing more setbacks after evidence emerged yesterday that he has lost at least 7,000 troops and more than 200 tanks in the conflict in Ukraine so far.