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Wednesday briefing: Why Labour seems to be walking the walk on the climate crisis

In today’s newsletter: The party talked up its plans for the climate during this summer’s election – and now seems to be backing that up with real action

The Guardian - UK

‘If they don’t die, our infantry will’: Ukraine’s pivotal battle for Donetsk

Russian forces are gathering on Pokrovsk, a logistics base and transport hub, after months of slow, brutal advance

The Guardian - UK

JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’

The Independent UK

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Could the world’s autocrats successfully plot to defeat the West?

Three decades ago, many liberals proclaimed victory for democracy and a “rules-based international order”. But today the majority of the world’s population live in countries that are only partially free, or are under one form or another of autocratic rule.

The Conversation

The Last Word: ‘painfully poignant’ play gives a voice to women silenced by Russia’s legal system

Anna Narinskaya’s play The Last Word, which has transferred to London’s Marylebone Theatre after its premiere in Berlin in 2022, gives voice to nine women who have fallen foul of the Russian legal system in recent years.

The Conversation

Chinese electric vehicles could be 'weaponized' and should be banned from government use, report warns

Chinese electric vehicles present a backdoor risk for Beijing to gain leverage over rival governments, a new think tank report warns.

Fortune

Is a political settlement between Russia and Ukraine on the cards? I am sceptical

Neither war fatigue nor the fear of an escalation into nuclear war seem enough to spur on negotiations to end the conflict, says political scientist Rajan Menon

The Guardian - UK

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Putin Orders Russian Military To Increase Troops By 180,000

Russian President Putin orders third military expansion since Ukraine invasion, with casualty figures disputed.

Top News

Putin boosts troop numbers as Russia launches airstrikes across Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile renews calls for Western allies to lift restrictions on the use of long-range missiles

The Independent UK

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International Business Times

Russia Announces Increase In Size Of Armed Forces

This is the second year in a row that Putin is growing the military.

The Independent UK

Putin orders military to boost troop numbers by 180,000 to 1.5 million as Ukraine fighting continues

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years

The Guardian - UK

‘Putin, here I am’: man accused of targeting Trump had ‘delusional ideas’ about helping Ukraine

Ryan Wesley Routh spoke to the Guardian in April 2022 when he arrived in Kyiv with a plan to ‘stand with Ukrainians’

The Independent UK

Ed Davey joins calls to let Ukraine use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia

The Liberal Democrat leader joined a growing chorus calling for a shift in stance

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The Independent UK

The inside story of how Putin torpedoed Starmer’s first big foreign policy ‘tough decision’ moment

News analysis: Starmer wants us to believe that he is the prime minister who ‘will make the tough decisions’ but his trip to Washington DC proved that he finds this much easier in regards to Britain’s pensioners than dealing with Putin

The Independent UK

Navalny ally calls on West to invest in Russia’s next generation to beat Putin

Exclusive: Leonid Volkov tells The Independent’s Tom Watling: ‘The vast majority of anti-Putin, anti-war, opposition-minded Russians are still inside the country, and they’re not changing their minds’

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson and five former defence secretaries urge PM to let Ukraine fire UK missiles on Russia

The former prime minister joined Grant Shapps, Ben Wallace, Gavin Williamson, Penny Mordaunt and Liam Fox are calling for Ukraine to be granted permission to use Storm Shadow missiles in Russia

Evening Standard

Lammy: West will not be bullied by Putin as talks continue on long-range strikes

The Foreign Secretary accused the Russian president of ‘bluster’ over the threat of war with Nato if Ukraine uses Western weapons to hit Russia.

Evening Standard

Russia 'trades nuclear weapon secrets with Iran in return for ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine'

Intelligence sources suggest Iran's nuclear programme may be nearing completion with Russian assistance

The Independent UK

Growing fears in UK and US of a secret nuclear deal between Iran and Russia

Intelligence suggesting new nuclear cooperation between Iran and Russia adds to concerns over Tehran’s rising uranium stockpile

Top News

Putin Warns Of Potential NATO War Over Ukraine Conflict

President Putin's warning of potential NATO involvement in Ukraine conflict amid international concerns over weapon supply and prisoner exchange.

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