'A war would be catastrophic for Ukraine, Russia, the UK, US and other nations'

Loose talk costs lives

VLADIMIR Putin must be laughing in the Kremlin when Ukraine’s President is the one urging calm, while our Prime Minister and the US President risk creating panic with their apocalyptic warnings.

Nobody knows what happens next, perhaps including Putin, who revels in the attention and fear generated by massing troops on a neighbour’s border, threatening invasion.