Ukrainian Counter-Offensive: A Mixed Picture

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Small Ukrainian gains are becoming apparent, most of all in three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk. All this so far is probing, what are called shaping operations. Most of both countries' armies remain in reserve as the actual full-scale battle lines are decided.

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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