The conflict burst into all-out war when Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
to make the "Oxford-Cambridge region" the "crown jewel" of European science and innovation.But Stop the Arc Group trustee Nick Burton told the BBC that Oxford and Cambridge had successful universities, with "adjacent science parks", and "little in between".
last month, a group made up of businesses, investors and universities said that unlocking potential growth in the region could benefit the UK by as much as £50bn per year by 2030.The Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board said the region could add billions of pounds to the economy.It said the "first essential" was to join Oxford and Cambridge with with East West Rail (EWR).
But Mr Burton said East West Rail was not critical to "joining up the region".He said loss of farmland would mean farming families would lose their land and their livings.
The Supercluster Board report proposed a number of "critical policy areas", including accelerating the delivery of laboratory space, improving research and development, and ensuring start-ups have access to the "finance they need to grow".
But Mr Burton said the claim that there is a region or supercluster "has no basis in economic reality".“I wasn’t afraid of anything at all, but now I’m even afraid to be in Kharkiv. I still hoped that Russia was not a terrorist state and that they attacked only military targets, but they hit the civilians.”
“I thank the United States for helping us. I’m grateful to Germany and all the countries of the world for what they’ve done. But we are helpless, and we have nothing. We’re suffering so much… we can’t defend ourselves.”Ukraine is not as badly off as Olena Lupak fears, though it is understandable to feel that way in Kharkiv this month. Wounded men from the garden centre, lying in hospital beds with shattered limbs, were just as fearful.
“Honestly, I don’t know what will happen,” said Vitalii, whose legs were crushed by the ceiling as it collapsed. “I’d like it to end soon but I don’t know how.”In the bed opposite Oleksandr said Ukraine could not do a deal with Russia. He had fallen badly as he escaped the fire from a second-floor window.