Nicola Sturgeon pledges 'solidarity' as Ukraine celebrates Independence Day

Ukraine's Independence Day comes exactly six months after the beginning of the Russian invasion (Image: SCDC)

NICOLA Sturgeon has written to Ukraine’s president offering Scotland’s “continued solidarity” six months on from Russia’s “unjust, unprovoked and illegal” invasion. 

The First Minister wrote to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Ukraine marked its Independence Day in the midst of the ongoing war.