Over the week end, ukranian security services released intercepted russian communications. Shocking audio transmissions appear to give evidence of war crimes. Last week, germany's foreign intelligence service revealed that it had intercepted radio transmissions that indicated war crimes were committed by russians in bucha.
President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the nationalist-populist National Rally party will advance to a run-off; in the continuation of our series, we ask what to expect in an unexpectedly tight race. Russian military communications have proven easy to intercept, leading to poor co-ordination and heavy battlefield losses. And South Korea’s millennials are frantically hunting for Pokémon-themed snacks.
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