The Kakhov-Kadam and the Russian Counter-Offensive

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The Kakhov-Kadam has almost certainly put an end to any crossing of heavy weaponry. The flooding has also washed away Russian defences, minefields on the eastern side of the Nepura. While it was never considered to be a main axis of offensive operations, there's now more potential for Ukrainian units to assault using speedboats and perhaps special forces.

Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical cancer; we ask why and where jab rates are falling. And why airlines have more money tied up in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.

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