A councillor shouted "Slava Ukraini!" to end an impassioned speech as West Lothian Council discussed the need to help refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Frank Anderson, the SNP depute group leader, made the cry of "Long Live Ukraine" in Ukrainian before councillors finally agreed a motion on the aid urgently needed to help the millions of people displaced by Russia's invasion.
What had appeared to be a straightforward motion raised by Labour became an intense verbal skirmish, and after almost an hour of ill tempered and tetchy debate councillors met in private to see if they could find the wording to a motion they could agree.
