PM's top security adviser says Europe faces hard winter to keep pressure on Putin

Jonathan Powell, the UK national security adviser, stated that Europe must prepare to endure 'real hardship' this winter to maintain economic pressure on Russia. At a conference in Kyiv, he asserted that Europe's strategy of supporting Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Moscow was effective. Despite energy shortages, he urged European nations not to ease sanctions, while noting that Ukraine had already 'won' the war by preventing Putin from seizing the entire country.