Edinburgh City Council leader Adam McVey has been criticised after it took three weeks to send a letter to the UK's Russian Ambassador condemning the Ukrainian invasion.
The council leader this week sent the letter, demanding that the city's Russian consulate withdraws from Edinburgh immediately, and saying he "the Russian Consulate is no longer welcome in Edinburgh until Russia stops this illegal war and Russian troops leave Ukrainian soil."
But questions have been asked about why it has taken so long to send the letter, after a full council meeting on March 17 saw members unanimously vote to write to Andrey Klein requesting the expulsion of all diplomats from the Consulate General in Edinburgh until troops vacate Ukraine.
