Putin can only "destroy" Ukraine, not "conquer it", Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov says. He co-founded independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta which shone a light on human rights abuses and high-level corruption before it was shut down by the authorities. Despite Muratov being designated a "foreign agent" in Russia, a label often used to punish Kremlin critics, he keeps speaking out, highlighting the plight of political prisoners, many of whom have been imprisoned for "speaking out against state policy" since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin will never win a "victory" for Russia, he says, despite the president continuing to predict one. "No matter how it ends," Muratov says, there "cannot be a victory when two Slavic nations have ripped a million people to shreds".

For the first time in 16 years, three inmates in the US are set to be executed on the same day. On Thursday, convicted murderers Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, Jeremy Williams, 41, and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 71, will face the death penalty in different states. Their fate is indicative of a steep rise in executions across the US - in 2025, there were more than four times as many people put to death as there were in 2021. So, what's driving the increase - and what do American citizens think?