A senior US official warned that Chinese companies are increasingly involved in boosting Russia’s war economy as President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to unite European allies on the issue. Most Read from BloombergHousing’s Worst Crisis in Decades Reverberates Through 2024 RaceHow Americans Voted Their Way Into a Housing CrisisFrom Louisville,

Russia started the conflict in Ukraine and can end it "straight away”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Moscow would regard Western missiles being fired into Russia as a serious escalation of the war.