A Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson faces steep odds

Ukraine needs to show progress on the battlefield. But its army may not be ready

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Wrecked planes smoulder at Russia’s Saky airbase in Crimea

Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for an attack behind enemy lines

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A changing climate is bad news for a continent that doesn’t like change

A heatwave is wreaking havoc across Europe

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Russia is forcing Ukrainian conscripts into battle

Locals are trying to help them escape

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The mysterious French mustard shortage

Even Dijon has run out of its namesake sauce

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Can anything stop Italy’s radical right?

Its opponents are struggling to put their egos aside

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Ukraine is on the edge of nervous breakdown

The numbers that need psychiatric treatment far exceed the supply of doctors

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Emmanuel Macron is not as soft on Russia as his critics claim

But a long war in Ukraine will test European resilience

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What would push the West and Russia to nuclear war?

Nobody is sure. That is why Joe Biden is careful in sending more potent weapons to Ukraine

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The first grain ship leaves Odessa under a UN-brokered deal

But how many more will follow?

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