Vladimir Bandura has appeared in a video, claiming Kiev’s forces had killed monks and set fire to an Orthodox monastery The Kiev-appointed mayor of Sviatogorsk, Vladimir Bandura, has switched his allegiance to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) following the town’s liberation from Ukrainian forces.

The US aerospace giant’s shares have taken a hit after an emergency landing led to the planes being temporarily removed from service Russian Market is a project by a financial blogger, Swiss journalist and political commentator based in Zurich. Follow him on X @runews

British banking giant Barclays will cut 900 jobs across its domestic business, trade union Unite revealed on Tuesday, calling the bank’s move “disgraceful” in the run-up to Christmas. According to Unite, the cuts would mostly target the bank’s back-office divisions such as compliance, finance, legal, policy, IT and risk.