Russia-Ukraine war: EU to hold urgent talks over Russian ‘energy war’; Ukraine announces mandatory evacuations – as it happened

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When Mikhail Sokolov signed up to work for the FSB security services, he never imagined his journey would end here: in a crowded refugee camp on the outskirts of a sleepy town in the rural Netherlands.

The last six years were a rollercoaster. I am happy I am no longer in the claws of the FSB," the former FSB informant and staffer for the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption network said in an interview with the Guardian this week.

[The new names] should perpetuate the memory of significant historical events of Ukraine, as well as famous figures and heroes who glorified Ukraine and fought for the independence of our state."