Anti tank weapons have destroyed plenty of russian armored vehicles. They were critical in helping to stall russia's opening advance on the capital kia. But now the supply of those weapons is tailing off. As the high te weaponry gets used up, ukraine is increasingly going to be relying on less advanced weapons.
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—and that is at last prompting reforms to its punitive penal system. And why Ukraine’s short supply of anti-tank missiles is not as worrying as it would once have been.
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