I am writing this on day 12 of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as civilians are desperately trying to escape besieged cities and the number of refugees estimated to have fled the country has topped 1.7 million. It is impossible for a bi-monthly magazine to give anything like adequate coverage to a situation that is developing as fast as this incursion. By the time you are reading it, everything will have changed many times over.

But we could not publish without any reference to Vladimir Putin’s horrific warmongering, the brave resistance by the Ukrainian people and their president, and the huge outpouring of international support. So I will briefly round up a range of charityrelated angles, while acknowledging that these pages may feel a decade old by the time the magazine lands.