Zelensky's 2022 vow — the war "must end with Crimea" — sounded like a slogan for four years. Then Ukraine's drone commander told Reuters: "We will isolate Crimea in the near future." The plan isn't to storm the peninsula.

The governing body of world chess has suspended Russia, ​which was for decades the dominant force in the game, after a ruling by the world’s top sports tribunal in favour of Ukraine.