内容摘要："They have a lot of character to them, a lot of personality, as he did himself."

"They have a lot of character to them, a lot of personality, as he did himself."

There doesn't seem to be any public record of the oil portrait being displayed elsewhere until 1978, when the Boston Public Library organised an exhibition of Leighton's works.However, according to the artist's family, the portrait was thought to have been on display in the 1970s in the US, where it was allegedly damaged in a knife attack.

A label attached to the backing board of the portrait says it was restored by the Lyman Allyn Museum Conservation Laboratory in Connecticut in 1974.The details of the alleged attack are not clear - according to Bonhams, it was carried out by a right-wing Hindu activist.Hindu hardliners in India accuse Gandhi of having betrayed Hindus by being too pro-Muslim, and blame him for the division of India and the bloodshed that marked Partition, which saw India and Pakistan created after independence in 1947.

He was shot dead on 30 January 1948 at a prayer meeting by Nathuram Godse, an activist with nationalist right-wing groups.Three days on, and Ukraine is still digesting the full implications of Operation Spider's Web, Sunday's massive assault on Russia's strategic aviation.

On Wednesday, the agency which orchestrated the attack, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), released additional, vivid footage of the attacks in progress, as well as tantalising glimpses into how the whole complex operation was conducted.

Satellite images that have emerged since Sunday, showing the wrecked outlines of planes sitting on the tarmac at the Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya airbases, also help tell the story of the operation's unprecedented success."Ukraine has shown the whole world that Russia is actually weak and cannot defend itself internally," Khrapchynskyi said.

But that doesn't mean that Russia is about to change course.After his latest conversation with Vladimir Putin,

"It was a good conversation," President Trump posted on Truth Social, "but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.""President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields."