Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In Britain, rail workers did it last summer.

Royal mail workers will do it later this month.

Nurses, midwives, and teachers may join them.

The country faces its biggest wave of strikes in decades, setting the stage for a winter

of industrial discontent.

And Shiam Sarannegi was a schoolteacher in a remote Himalayan village in the Indian

state of Himachal Pradesh.

His life was long, but relatively undistinguished, except for one thing.

He was the first person to vote in newly independent India.

And first, today residents in the Ukrainian city of Horson may have some cause for hope.

Russian troops, according to the Kremlin, are leaving.

In recent weeks, Ukrainian commandos have advanced at speed through the region surrounding

a strategically and psychologically important city, posting videos of liberated towns and

villages.

The Russians, it seems, are on the run.

That should be cause for celebration.

But in an address this morning, Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky said a cautious

time.

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