Independent on Sunday

“It’s hell here” is the headline on The Independent, with people in Mariupol describing how they have survived two weeks in a city under siege.

Russia has been condemned by leaders around the globe for shelling Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine as the US told the UN Security Council that the world had “narrowly averted a catastrophe”, says The Independent.

According to The Independent, lifting COVID-19 restrictions risks an 80% rise in cases.

Number 10 insiders have warned that “isolated” Boris Johnson is becoming “unpredictable” as he tries to win over backbenchers by ceding more power, according to The Independent. 

Sir Tony Blair says that the Labour Party must capitalise on the defection of a Conservative MP, The Independent writes.

Oil and gas firms were invited to help write new rules on drilling just weeks after the prime minister urged countries to stop extracting fossil fuels, writes The Independent.