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Russia strikes a medical clinic in Ukraine, analysing the Battle for Bakhmut & understanding the Russian mentality

Ukraine: The Latest

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The Importance of Comparing Stalingrad to the Second World War

I've seen many pieces that refer to Bachmout as a Stalingrad, and I think that the foreign desk felt that this was something that was worth pulling apart a little bit. The fact that we're able to talk about a city and European soil in the 21st century as being comparable with Stalingrad is just extraordinary, and as I said before, it shames us all really. Well, thank you very much Francis, Dom, Roland and Verity. We've got an interview for the podcast this evening, so can we just go into our final thoughts ahead of the weekend?

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