Kremlin troops launched two attacks on Kyiv late Wednesday and earlier today – one via the besieged western city of Irpin and another through the eastern district of Brovary, with video showing the moment Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were bombarded with artillery in a devastating ambush and forced to turn back. 

In 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service issued the first ever legal guidance to prosecutors on supporting child victims of domestic abuse and attributed it directly to the work of the Joanna Simpson Foundation. The new Domestic Abuse Act (2021) recognises that children are not only witnesses but victims of domestic abuse.

Military experts say they are baffled by the ineptitude of the tactics displayed by Russia’s armies after drone footage showed a column of tanks getting picked off one-by-one in an ambush carried out by Ukraine’s forces.

Three UK’s decision to suspend its sponsorship deal with Chelsea sets up a possible wave of corporate boycotts that could see the club deprived of tens of millions of pounds worth of revenue and facing financial meltdown.  

Sarah Burrows, whose charity Children Heard And Seen is collaborating with the Joanna Simpson Foundation, says this is ‘crucial’: ‘There needs to be more support for children who have witnessed their parents hurting each other to process conflicting emotions and thoughts, including guilt, fear, sadness, shame, anger and worrying about being unable to protect Mother.’

Brown bundled the children into the car, with their mother’s body in the back. Alex repeatedly asked his father, ‘Are we taking Mummy to the hospital?’ but, instead, Robert drove them to his girlfriend’s home and left them there while he continued on to Windsor Great Park.

In a video message to the besieged nation, Zelensky accused the Kremlin of attempting to seize the capital, overthrow the government and install a ‘puppet’ regime ‘like in Donetsk’, one of two separatist regions which warmonger Vladimir Putin officially recognised before launching an all-out invasion. 

It comes as Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of shooting children and said Vladimir Putin’s forces will  only take Kyiv if they ‘raze the city to the ground’, with Kremlin troops inching closer to the capital and conflict raging nearby today, endangering attempted evacuations.

James, the children’s uncle, moved to the Isle of Man with his wife Sarah to form a loving extended circle. Jo’s father, successful property developer Christopher Simpson, had died eight years earlier of cancer.

“Over the summer, we will begin the planning process for further ways to modernize the facility and substantially enhance the fan and student-athlete experience. I think folks are really going to be excited about all that we have in store.”

The Russian tycoon would not be allowed to take any of the money from any prospective deal – with the club understood to be up for sale for around £3billion – and it would instead be determined by Downing Street.

But a former NATO official said she is ‘sceptical’ that Russian forces will ‘gain much success’ from an expected brutal onslaught of Kyiv, as Ukrainians warned Putin to prepare for his own Stalingrad battle. 

The sanctions – which are part of a broader government package imposed against six other oligarchs – are expected to apply as long as Abramovich owns the club before being lifted in the event of him selling it. 

‘I felt incredibly upset that, while they were playing in a den he had helped them build, this man could be contemplating their mother’s murder.
It was deplorable, just horrendous, that he could be so callous and calculating — and to think that he was ready to leave the children without a mother.

Her life now is very far from the relaxed retirement she was looking forward to on November 1, 2010.That morning, Diana and her second husband Fred Parkes were having their vaccinations ahead of a fortnight’s cruise to South America when the phone rang.

‘The humanitarian situation in Ukraine, unfortunately, continues to rapidly worsen, and in some cities has reached catastrophic proportions,’ RIA quoted Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, as saying.

Now, the safe haven she worked so hard to build could be put in jeopardy by their father’s release from prison. It is an outcome she dreads. ‘As long as I am breathing, I will do my best to protect the family,’ she says.

A ceasefire should be in place today to allow trapped residents in Mariupol, Kyiv and Sumy evacuate through humanitarian corridors, but Russia has repeatedly failed to observe them, as Ukrainian officials pleaded with Russian forces to allow the citizens to escape. 

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said today that Ukraine’s capital city has been ‘turned into a fortress’ ahead of the Russian assault, with about 2 million people – half the residents of the metro area of the capital – having fled as Putin’s troops draw ever closer.