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Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of bombing a theatre where around 1,000 civilians were sheltering. The word “children” was written in large Russian letters on the pavement outside. Boris Johnson “walked away empty-handed” from his meetings with Saudi Arabia and the UAE yesterday, says The Daily Telegraph. The PM had hoped to persuade the oil producers to ramp up exports as a means of weaning the West off Russian oil. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been reunited with her family in the UK after six years under lock and key in Iran. Her husband Richard’s sister tells the BBC their seven-year-old daughter Gabriella last night “slept in between Richard and Nazanin for the first time in six years”.