Ukraine is ramping up arms production, very ambitious plans. They understand they're going to be dependent for the foreseeable future on Western support. I think they are worried looking ahead about the impact of the US elections in 2024. The Russian state will still want to subjugate Ukraine as long as Vladimir Putin remains in charge," he says.
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.
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