Brendan O’Regan
A man holds a peace flag as people protest against the war in Ukraine in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy at the weekend. Photo: CNS. I thought Vladimir Putin might have been happy for now to annex the two breakaway republics in Ukraine and hope to get away with it as with Crimea. Tuning in to early news bulletins last Thursday I found I was wrong. It seems he wants the whole of Ukraine, and is prepared to see widespread…
