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now up to 135p - holding firm around these levels. Lets hope the yanks by in further this afternoon...........

The purpose of Russia's "military operation" in Ukraine is not to overthrow the central government, a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson has said.

The army's aim is "not to occupy Ukraine, or the destruction of its statehood, or the overthrow of the government. It is not directed against the civilian population," foreign ministry spokeswoman MariaZakharova said.

The statement is the latest step in an apparent climbdown from the Kremlin, who waged war two weeks ago with the explicit aims of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine by "decapitating" the government in Kyiv.

Latest from Moscow:

Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Ms Zakharova added that it would be better if Russia can achieve its aims with talks and that "some progress" has been made in negotiations with Ukraine.

"Some progress has been made," Ms Zakharova said during a press briefing, referring to three rounds of talks with Kyiv.

I would not be at all surprised if we have a full cease fire by the end of the week, while talks are finalised.

This situation is serving nobody any benefit, while innocents are getting killed. From what I am seeing the Int. community is putting pressure on both sides to get resolved.

Give HL a call and ask to book a trade.

Despite vowing not to invest any more here, I topped up a further 10 large this morning.
So, everything crossed we are on to a winner.
Peace talks.
A 12 hr cease fire has been agreed for today, along various corridors to get folk out. If this can hold, this will open the door to further rounds of peace talks. We need this war to end soon folks.

Morning all.
Well that was a bloody awful day at the races yesterday. I praying we can rally a bit and move back up, even to 120 that will keep us in the game.

Give peace a chance pretty please Putin.

good tune Dribbles - ur forgiven 4 now.

point it in Dribbles direction.

OK - I do not need to look far.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-law-15-year-prison-sentences-military-lies/

That took 20 seconds.

Another complete nonsense statement.
U & Dribbles have ben living in a free democracy for too long. Move home & live on borscht & oppression.

idiot. Move to Scotland.

Mr Dribbles.

And the poisoning, in-prisoning, murdering of his NATIVE detractors acceptable?

Get a feckin grip.

lest we forget that Putin is a murderous gangster who has brought misery to his (and other) population's for decades..............................

The only reason I have chucked money @ POLY yesterday & today, as I felt we were getting signals from various sources that there could be a resolution.
Firstly, Putin's list of demands yesterday which seemed achievable (not that I agree)
Today, we hade Xi Jinping calling for a resolution (with Macron & Olaf Scholz)
We also had Volodymyr Zelensky asking Israel Today to help with further mediation.

Now we have VZ stating no wish to be a part of NATO.

Maybe our investment is looking a bit rosier.....................

Jeremyruttl.
I have made 4 x £10k trades with HL in the last 2 days. I phoned it through to their trading desk and no issues. However I did have to pay a wee bit more for the privilege..

Brave or stupid Furion? - time will tell.

Anyway, I am hoping Xi Jinping's comments can push a resolution forward...............

Just topped up - now £40k in with average of: 178.5. I am not going to invest any more here as understand the risks.

GLA.

Evening Novice. Have you dipped ur feet in here or thinking about doing so?

I picked up £10K's worth this morning and pondering weather to go in any deeper..............

It's interesting to see that Russia has now set out it's demand to end invasion.
Is the first sign that a peace deal will be brokered?

P.S. as previously noted this was not an issue for me as I managed to keep busy.
However maybe 100k newly self employed folk crashed & burned, while the Government paying multi-nationals mega bucks to pay their staff.
Slugs comment correct - 'deeply socialist' and has helped fuel even lower UK productivity.