With intense fighting in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a Times dispatch signals that Ukraine is making advances as it battles to reclaim an area which has little strategic but huge symbolic value. It may be a similar story for Russian athletes at the Olympics. We question if it is too dangerous to allow them to compete in Paris next year - even if they do so under a neutral flag.
Also: are environmental protestors wising up to the anger they often cause? And 'Short Kings' - the increasing power of shorter men, and what it tells us about the Western world.
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