Everybody is a bit nervous about going to the front, he says. "Your heart beats differently at times. But we signed up for this. We gave a pledge. But they never made it this far. Twenty miles on, a rusty watermelon monument marks the tide mark of Moscow's advance.
irannews.ru As Russia's grip on Kherson continues to weaken, fears grow of it deploying a "scorched-earth" policy. "Our community guidelines specifically call it out as a hateful ideology and we are crystal clear that we do not want that content on our platform," said a spokesperson. By 1989, that included General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a reformist. In the first year of Covid, Prof Yang says, the lockdowns made sense. They were brief and allowed life in China to carry on. There was even pride at how the country was handling the pandemic so much better than the West. "That's no longer the case," he says. Yet in the words of the Ukrainian soldier Gadfly, "what choice do we have"?