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Leo Docherty is facing a tough local challenge in the General Election - and a local Labour insider said: "He is never seen about and has delivered nothing locally for people."
Seeming bid for peace does come at a time when the war is not going well for the Russians and comes ahead of a peace parley being readied at Switzerland.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has said that Russia has lost more than half a million troops since the start of the war.
Ukraine said Russia has lost a total of 12,860 artillery pieces and 14,748 armored personnel vehicles since the conflict began.
Putin attended a service at the packed Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken supporter of the Kremlin.