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“Ukraine is trying to reduce Russian oil revenue, and therefore write down its capacity to continue the war, and make life more difficult economically for the Russian state and the Russian people...Ukrainian attacks coinciding with the International Economic Forum will “not just be sending a message to Russia — they will also send a message to Russia’s partners or potential partners,” Reynolds said.

When you talk about a clear British strategy, I'm afraid I think the Chinese may find that quite hard to see because when Labour came to power it launched a China audit and a year after that, we all expected some form of clear policy to emerge but it didn't. Then Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that we had to understand that most of it remains secret, so one presumes it remains secret to the Chinese and it remains a secret to most of the British government in fact, because few government officials are fully vetted and therefore cannot see secrets."

Although drone strikes and shelling remain constant, Russian combat performance is waning,” Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, wrote in an analysis for Foreign Affairs this week... Mr. Watling said Ukraine’s battlefield gains had turned the tide in the war. “In Kyiv, there is a growing optimism that Ukraine can fight Russia to a cease-fire,” he wrote.