Zelenskiy’s economic guru: ‘Germany can survive without Russian oil: I wouldn’t want my country facing the shame’

Exclusive The Ukrainian president's adviser, Oleg Ustenko, tells of his fury at how Europe's refusal to act is piling more misery on Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war: latest developments

Before Russia's tanks, daubed with their infamous Z, rolled into Ukraine, Oleg Ustenko's advice to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had focused on pension reform, privatisation and coaxing economic migrants to return.

Nearly 60 days later, the pair are instead striving to hold together an economy that, even if Vladimir Putin's brutal bombardment were to end tomorrow, would be left in tatters.