Your slice of the top headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Wednesday, October 12th, 2022.

Your slice of the top headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Monday, October 10th, 2022.

Meters. A word that suggests a measurement both small and imprecise. In Kyiv this morning that word signified the difference between life and death. 

For all the recent talk that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons to hold onto Ukrainian territory, Russia may have already begun hybrid warfare against Norway and northern Europe, especially Germany, to exploit Europe’s energy needs over the coming winter.

It’s interesting to hear people arguing in Saudi Arabia’s defence, that in leading OPEC to oil production cuts, it is just acting in its own economic self interest. And that everyone does that. Fair comment if only this were a crisis around very narrow economic self interest. But it is not. It is not about Saudi getting an extra $10 a barrel on oil, and real GDP growing an extra 0.5%, and the US and West suffering the inverse losses in a zero sum economic game.