‘We don’t have a Titanic here’: Ukraine plays down threat of Russian invasion

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy complains war talk causing panic in financial centres and depleting gold reserves

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has talked down the threat of an imminent Russian invasion and said the UK and US were wrong to pull out non-essential diplomatic staff from Kyiv, adding: We don't have a Titanic here".

Zelenskiy said on Friday he was acutely aware of the dangers posed by the 100,000 Russian troops gathered on Ukraine's border. But he appeared to disagree with the Biden administration's bleak assessment that a Russian attack was distinctly possible" next month.