Scotland’s papers: Ukraine battle creeps west and meals shortages warning

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Rocketing energy prices and the war in Ukraine could result in food shortages, reports The Scotsman. The warning comes from the National Farmers Union whose members are contending with soaring prices for energy and fertiliser.

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Much of the front page coverage of the war in Ukraine today focuses on Russia’s attack on the military base near Lviv – and its proximity to Nato member Poland. “Putin strikes bring war to door of Nato,” is the i’s headline.

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“War reaches Nato border,” is the Times’s front page headline. It carries a full-width photograph showing the devastation at the site of the attack.

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The Herald also leads with the incident near the border with Poland. The paper reports that at least 35 people died as a result of the Russian cruise missile attack.

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The Scottish Daily Express says the attack is the closest Russia’s “despot president” Vladimir Putin has come to dragging a Nato member into the war.

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