Vladimir Putin is set to "put the screws harder and harder" into Ukrainians as the war hits its one year anniversary and has not reached the aims he had hoped for, an expert has claimed.
Today marks one year since the warmonger defied all expectations and ordered tanks to roll across the border into Ukraine, subsequently killing close to 10,000 civilians in a year-long conflict.
Marc Garlasco, a war crimes investigator who analysed Russian activity in Syria for the United Nations, told The Mirror: "There's not an 'oh my god after one year in Syria, the Russians started doing this' moment.