As fighting around Bakhmut rages on, drone footage taken by The New York Times captured the scorched buildings, destroyed schools and cratered parks that now define the city in eastern Ukraine. The Russians are declaring victory in this battle, the warβs longest and bloodiest. The Ukrainians, making gains on the outskirts, say the death of the city is not the end of the campaign to drive the Russians from the ruins, just one more phase in a catastrophic war. Tyler Hicks shot this drone footage while embedded with the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine outside Bakhmut.
There are so many layers to this: but to boil it down to its very simplest essence: this is about a military fighting a brutal war of attrition needing more men to keep up the fight and a civilian male population not keen to go at this point in the war
Wrote about the storm building around Ukraine's mobilisation policy for @KyivIndependent:
This issue is both a uniquely painful catalyst of societal tension in a country at war, but also a very stark condensation of all of Ukraine's internal woes. 1/
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Ethnic divisions significantly contribute to conflicts in Myanmar, where a diverse array of ethnic minorities, including Kachin, Shan, Karen, and Rohingya, grapple with considerable challenges related to their rights and social well-being.
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