A leading academic backing Vladimir Putin has called for the relentless bombing of Ukraine this winter so it "no longer exists as a nation".
Associate professor Andrei Sidorov, dean of the Faculty of World Politics at Moscow State University, wants to trigger a new surge of war victims fleeing into the EU and Britain.
Further missile attacks aimed at civilian infrastructure, as Putin ordered this week, could lead to a new exodus from Ukraine - similar to that of the start of the war in February.
