Mike Collett-White

Are there going to be foreign troops in Ukraine monitoring and helping to impose the rules of any ceasefire?

The Russians say, no, we won't accept that.

The Ukrainians say, well, you may have to.

What's going to happen to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, which is a contested plant?

What's going to happen to Zelensky, President Volodymyr Zelensky, where the Russians want him out of power?

They don't like him because he's stood up to them fairly successfully.

The way I and some of my colleagues look at it is if you want to see how Ukraine has changed, then look at the time-lapse photographs of Volodymyr Zelensky.

When he came to power in 2019, when he was first elected, he was a young, bushy-tailed, bright, almost boyish, impish leader, and people couldn't quite believe that he had become the president.

now when you see him there is a man who is uh exhausted um who is grizzled who frequently loses his voice because he is having to cajole people to support ukraine the whole time he has the stress of seeing his country pummeled

crushed, many parts of it left in ruins.

So I think that that kind of reflects how people are feeling.

The attack was so successful from the Ukrainian point of view that it led to a suspension of oil exports of up to 2.2 million barrels a day, or 2% of global supplies.

The markets are very worried.

And while long-range drones are the main weapon of choice for Ukraine, in this case, the Ukrainians came out and said, we actually used our newly developed Neptune missiles.

They can fly a long way, 1,000 kilometers.

but also significantly they carry a greater payload than a drone.

So that means that if they do manage to impact, let's say, an oil refinery, the damage that they cause would be far greater than a drone.