Nottingham City Council leader David Mellen has blasted the invasion on Ukraine as 'regressive' as the local authority has cut its ties to twinned cities in Russia and Belarus.
The city was twinned with Krasnodar in Russia and Minsk in Belarus, but any association with those two cities has now stopped with immediate effect.
Explaining the decision, Labour leader and councillor David Mellen said it 'borne out of our unwillingness to be associated with both the Russian and Belarusian governing bodies and is not a reflection on the people of Minsk or Krasnodar'.
