Sunday shows round-up: Raab calls for Putin to be ‘held to account’

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab joined Sophie Raworth this morning to address the continuing developments in Ukraine. It is widely believed that the Russian army has failed to meet most of its key objectives since the invasion began on the 24 February. Within the first few days, Russian president Vladimir Putin had already given the command to place Russia’s vast nuclear deterrence forces on ‘high alert’. Raab suggested that Putin was just sabre-rattling:

Raab: Putin should be ‘held to account’ at the Hague

Boris Johnson has already described Putin’s actions in Ukraine as a war crime, comparing his behaviour to ‘the last years of Slobodan Milosevic’, the Serbian leader who became known to history as the ‘Butcher of the Balkans’.