Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said Brennan lied to Congress about an investigation into whether Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump.

The question of whether Ukraine should fight against or negotiate with an aggressor has been there since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. But more than three years after it launched its full-scale invasion, the war is entering a new phase, and that word has re-entered the global debate.

Today, nearly four years into a war that Russia is still failing to win, society editors are struggling to fill their pages. The elite have become reclusive and fearful. At this year’s St Petersburg forum they were scarcely visible, venturing out of the VIP zone only for Vladimir Putin’s panel. Some have relocated to the countryside.

Czechs head to the polls Friday for a parliamentary vote that has become the latest testing ground for Russia’s online disinformation machine.

President Trump visits Asia this week to work on trade deals with allies and to try pushing a deal with China.

Russia is a main protagonist in a new pattern of conflict, defined by the term ‘hybrid warfare’, a format which allows the Kremlin to overcome its power asymmetry to destabilise Europe, build alliances worldwide, including in Africa, and pursue its imperial ambitions in Ukraine by undermining support for Kyiv.

Leaders are seeking new ways to help end the war, including giving Ukraine a $250 billion loan backed by frozen Russian assets as collateral.