Wildberries strikes light up sky 1000km inside Russia as Zelensky ‘reveals’ wartime death tolls
Day 1,620.
Today, we report on another weekend of intense military activity: from renewed strikes on Wildberries warehouses – so severe that the company's owner and CEO Tatyana Kim was compelled to issue a public statement – to assassination attempts and a bombing at a Moscow restaurant. Plus, drone strikes on Russian positions in Crimea and a brutal attack on Kyiv that reveals the city's vulnerability to ballistic missile strikes. Dom and Francis also examine the latest casualty figures claimed by President Zelensky, the evolving US position on Ukraine, and what the new adaptation of The Odyssey might be trying to say about how modern warfare is having a corrosive effect on contemporary society.
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James Kilner on the true significance of the Wildberries attacks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_UYWPnaFRM&t=835s
Ukraine only able to intercept one of 27 Russian missiles aimed at Kyiv (The Telegraph):
Trump backtracks on promise to give Ukraine Patriot blueprints (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/31/trump-backtracks-promise-ukraine-patriot-blueprints/
'Nature of the threats has changed' — Kyiv removes protective structures from city monuments (Kyiv Independent)
Zelensky Updates NSDC Roster Amid Government Reshuffle (Kyiv Post):
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/81516
Tulsi Gabbard and her guru (The Washington Post):
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