The resounding parliamentary defeat suffered by the Ukrainian opposition will disappoint Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
It will also irk the European Union, especially big-hitter Germany, which is used to getting its own way in redrawing the continent's post-1991 map.
It has been practically one-way traffic since then, with Berlin leading the charge to break up the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 
               US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
 
               As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict
 
               As Moscow celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi defeat without Western allies in attendance, the EU even sanctions nations choosing to attend, revealing how completely the USSR's sacrifice of 27 million lives has been erased, argues KATE CLARK

 
               


