Russia-Ukraine war live: one killed and cathedral in Odesa hit as Moscow launches fresh strikes

In the Observer, Simon Tisdall writes on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s declining international acceptability.

As his spectral bogeyman image grew, so Putin’s international acceptability shrank. Since February last year, only Iran, Belarus and some former Soviet republics (plus adoring Dagestan) have been honoured by his presence. He briefly travelled to occupied Ukraine in April – but that was strictly not by invitation.