DOMINIC LAWSON reports on how Russia has abducted thousands

In the early hours of last Wednesday morning I was woken by explosions, and the building I was sleeping in seemed to vibrate. This was the result of firing a barrage of hypersonic missiles at , a murderously intended retort to the meeting in Washington at exactly that moment between Ukraine's President Volodymyr and President .

By real good fortune - and the use of U.S. Patriot missile-interceptors - no one was killed in this attack, the most intensive such onslaught on Kyiv since the first days of the full-scale invasion almost two years ago. But scores of people were injured, including children.

When I heard and felt the blasts, I immediately thought of one child I have got to know well. His name is Yehor. We have hosted this delightful Ukrainian boy, now 11, and his mother Vera, since July 2022.

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