Vasily Astrov, expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, told Newsweek that "inflation has really subsided markedly over the past few months. The outcome of this policy has been a marked cooling of domestic demand, with the welcome side effect of rapid disinflation.

Russia’s failure to improve river crossing capability has become a critical weakness, stalling its summer offensive at the Dnipro and Oskil Rivers.

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Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Fox News on Tuesday that sanctioning Russian oil to end the Ukraine war is a "very real possibility."

On the face of it, the US involvement in Ukraine bears little similarity to the 20-year Afghanistan war, not least because there are no American boots on the ground in Europe.

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By Ben Aris in Berlin Ukraine’s key logistic hub of Pokrovsk has fallen to the Armed Forces of Russia (AFR) after more than a year of fighting marking a major strategic defeat for Kyiv. Russian forces have entered the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk,