I stand corrected, the Kremlin says Shoigu was there, along with lots of other people you can't see on the screen kremlin.ru/supplement/5858

A former cabinet minister adds: “She has fucked the party, fucked the country and fucked our prospects at the next general election.”

Putting the F in the FT

Can anything save Liz Truss? - on.ft.com/3eyxV3e via Financial Times

Putin looks like he wants to wrap up Russia’s draft, which by all accounts, is not going well

with Christopher Miller ft.com/content/dbb7db…

‘Trolling helps show the king has no clothes’: how Ukraine’s army conquered Twitter

Me, Mehul Srivastava, and Roman Olearchyk for Financial Times.

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As Gillian Tett asks “To what degree will US politicians permit a capricious billionaire to exert influence… [on] a foreign war? ft.com/content/692a22…

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Turkey last night passed a new law on “disinformation”. A central provision threatens jail time for those who 'disseminate false information about the internal and external security, public order + general wellbeing of the country”. ft.com/content/ebcf79…

My latest on Elon Musk, Starlink and Ukraine. Since I wrote this I have heard from front lines that comms still down in Kherson. Much is foggy in war...but hope these tales are not true. ☹️☹️ Would love to hear!!!

'Western military officials estimate Ukraine could take Kherson up to the Dnipro as soon as next week.'

Polina Ivanova, Henry Foy, and Christopher Miller on some potentially seismic news brewing in southern Ukraine, where Russia is still retreating

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“We are not Baron Munchausen, we can’t just pull ourselves up out of this region by our hair.”

Polina Ivanova reports from Kazakhstan, which is trying to drift away from Russia without provoking the ire of its northern neighbor

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.Daniel Speckhard said it made no sense for Russia’s overstretched military to open up another long front in Belarus. But Moscow did not always think rationally in its war with the west — “an eastern way of thinking that the Ukrainians understand”.

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