Putin’s power: Can anyone stop the Russian president? – BBC Newsnight

The latest peace talks on the Ukraine war end without a breakthrough. Can anyone stop Putin? This report contains strong language. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

Russian shelling is still preventing the evacuation of civilians from besieged cities such as Kyiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian government.

A third round of peace talks ended without a breakthrough, but a fourth round will take place today.

Who in Moscow is orchestrating what Western leaders are calling war crimes?

And what can stop President Putin?

Newsnight’s international editor Gabriel Gatehouse reports. This report contains strong language.

Kirsty Wark is joined by former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton and Putin’s former economic policy adviser Andrei Illarionov.

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