This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.
What happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed.
Hundreds killed.
But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it.
It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories.
I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series,
I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.
What did they miss the first time?
The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
The vast toll of Russia's war inside Ukraine we all know about.
The huge numbers killed, the fear and displacement and cold.
endless, biting cold, caused to Ukrainians by the daily aerial bombardments,
and with Russia's advances in the East coming not just bloodily,
but it feels at a grindingly slow pace.
It may seem sometimes that the diplomacy is proceeding at a similarly painful tempo.