'Russia is not going to be beaten' | David Owen on how the Ukraine invasion should end

The former Labour foreign secretary David Owen has said Keir Starmer is “wrong“ to suggest Putin be put on trial at The Hague. When asked whether he agrees with Keir Starmer, Lord Owen told Matt Chorley on Times Radio: “I'm pretty wary of that. Firstly, it's not going to happen unless Russia is beaten, and Russia is not going to be beaten. I think it's the wrong language to use, quite frankly. We are not going to destroy Russia, so much so that they will offer up to The Hague. We're not going to send the SAS into Russia to seize Putin and take him to the Hague. A lot of these legal solutions, it's perhaps no accident that Starmer is a lawyer. “We were able to do it in the Balkans which I know very well because we got a resolution through in the UN and we had support for international action and we had the special court that we set up to try war crimes committed in Yugoslavia, carried by the UN. We're not going to get that in Russia.“