The Ukraine-Russia war is firmly back on the agenda of Western leaders. Keir Starmer is at a hastily organised European summit in Paris as Russian and American negotiators prepare to hold talks in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile the PM has announced he would be willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine as peacekeepers.

But with military recruitment at historically low levels and defence spending languishing, is our diminished Army up to it? Kamal and Gordon ask Lord Richard Dannatt, former head of the British Army, who says it is “outrageous” that Ukraine has been excluded from planned peace talks and suggests military spending should be boosted as high as 3.5% of GDP.

Later, the Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey reflects on a night of bad jokes and surprise results at the Bafta Awards - and reveals which films are worth seeing.

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