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The Battle of Britain hasn't been overplayed at all. Britain and the Empire were solo against the Nazi's at that point and reeling from Dunkirk and Norway - Russia didn't switch to the allied side until 1941. The Battle of Britain was a rejection of the Nazi attempt to force the British...

Just as an aside really, I read a few years ago about how world leaders avoid their DNA being taken and potentially used by foreign powers to identify health issues and vulnerabilities etc. The incredible lengths some will go to to ensure either they only use their own things when visiting other...

If Prigozhin fails is Putin still mortally undermined? I'd imagine the crackdown on any kind of dissent is going to get even stronger

Unverified footage allegedly showing Prigozhin with in Rostov with the Deputy Minister of Defence. Possibly bigger news is the rumour that Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff and defence deputy to Putin, is hiding from Prigozhin in Rostov. Presumably capturing him would be a big deal, but...

Guardian got it now too https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-russias-military-of-attack-and-says-evil-leadership-must-be-stopped

It reads to me like he is laying the ground for Putin to blame his military and withdraw...or heavily implying a leader who is so deceived isn't fit to lead. Whatever it is it's a curious development.

I don't know if they hoped for less damage but they didn't think through the consequences - there are credible reports of a worsening cholera outbreak in parts of the Russian army because the dam being blown up has affected their supply of drinking water.

There's a reddit called ukrainewarvideoreport which is full of footage from the frontline as well as some analysis. The footage is staggering, how they are using standard commercial drones to drop grenades for example, or "kamikaze drones", and much of the fighting wouldn't look out of place in...

It's on the Guardian citing the UK ambassador to Ukraine among others

Depending on your tolerance for reading thoroughly depressing analysis this chap has an interesting breakdown of the China / Russia relationship https://eand.co/is-the-world-going-back-to-war-a0a086c43f96

I was wondering this as well, and read somewhere, but can't remember the source now or how they got the figure but it was linked in some way to the impact of sanctions over time, that it's around $15 billion a day for Putin to keep the war going. A quick Google suggests each tank that gets...

Others have pointed out already how wrong it would be to consider Ukraine sacrificing itself for our benefit as any kind of positive outcome, so I won't do that. But also, that won't stop Putin. There's an (entirely reasonable) view that because Putin isn't constrained by the same electoral...

The hacker group Anonymous is targeting Russia too, so far hacking and leaking a Russian MOD database and taking some of Gazprom's services offline.

It's bleak and heartbreaking beyond words. The Ukranian interior ministry is posting notices for citizens on how to make a molotov cocktail too. They are expecting the worst and it's unimaginably awful.

Deeply worrying times and thoughts are with Ukraine and its people. I spoke with a Polish friend yesterday and she told me there is intense anxiety among many there that they may be next for Putin using the border crisis with Belarus as his justification.

The same Chatham House I've just quoted (the Royal Institute) and the report which concludes with this statement?: "Despite much rhetoric and progress on paper, the UK remains a safe haven for dirty money, a great deal of which comes from Russia and Eurasia. As we have shown, it is not just...

Hmmm. That's a bit unnecessarily aggressive and suggests you need to do a bit more research, not Thunder Bolt - policies are one thing. Effective implementation is another. e.g. the independent and hugely respected Royal Institute for International Affairs published a report that explained how...