Today on Ukraine: the last, we analyze the latest statements from Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Alexander Lukashenko, discuss the continuing fallout from the Kakhovka dam explosion, and interview British volunteer Felicity Spector traveling through Ukraine with the nonprofit Bake for Ukraine.
First, Francis Dearnley comments on today’s news that Ukrainian troops have recaptured Krasnohorivka, a village near the city of Donetsk:
Interestingly, this would be one of the first cases since the full-scale invasion of Russia last year where Ukrainian forces recaptured an area of ​​territory occupied by Russia since 2014. The British MOD also indicates that the forces probably lack operational level reserves that could reinforce against simultaneous Ukrainian threats on several areas of the front, mainly Bakhmut and southern Ukraine.
Roland Oliphant reflects on the nature of the insurrection against the authority of the Kremlin: was Prigozhin’s decision a coup, a mutiny or something else?
I think as soon as you have a man in a military uniform who sent a flying column down the road to Moscow, standing in front of a camera and saying ‘this is not a coup’, alarm bells ring in my head. I feel like there were definitely ambitions if you start rolling towards Moscow like that.
Sam Lovett of the Office of Global Health at Telegraph describes some of the environmental challenges posed by the ongoing war:
In eastern Ukraine you have about 220 coal mines which over the years have been abandoned or closed. Then you set up various pump-pump systems that act as a means of stopping water from filling up those mines.
Obviously, this water contains very toxic heavy materials which will then pollute groundwater and various surface water tables. And because of the war, these mines are now filling up at a significant rate. The fear is that this water will pollute various water supplies in the area, thus preventing people from drinking water from their taps.
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