Nato thinks perhaps 15 thousand russians may have died in the war already. They've taken one major city, kerson, and russian control there looks pretty shaky to me. And i think there's some clear evidence that things are changing on the ground. The idea is to encircle the ukranian forces in don bas, cut them off and stop them retreating west of the nipa river and escaping. Will that work?
It appears that Russian forces are withdrawing from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to focus on the eastern region of Donbas. We examine what the shifting tactics signify. A court in Singapore has refused to strike a colonial-era anti-gay law from its books, despite the fact it is never enforced; we ask why. And what’s behind Bolivia’s preponderance of contraband Japanese cars.
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