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I'm Rosie Bloor.

And I'm Jason Palmer.

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

Britain voted to leave the European Union a decade ago.

Strangely, though, it has since become more, not less, like Europe.

And policymakers are now trying to catch up.

And many universities in America used to uphold a proud tradition of making all students

take a swimming test before they got their diploma and dived into the real world.

Now more and more are abandoning it.

Thank you. now more and more are abandoning it. First up, though.

Travelling to see Ukraine's drone chief was interesting enough, though I can't actually tell you where we were.

Oliver Carroll is our Ukraine correspondent.

For most of the long, rough, bumpy road to the command point, I was being driven in a minivan with blacked out windows.

When the doors finally slid open,

we were inside, opposite an entrance to a strange and eccentric underground world of corridors,

sleeping pods, a gym, a gallery of famous Ukrainian paintings alongside explosives, drones and missiles,

and missiles of screens, relaying live data feeds from the battlefield.

And somewhere in there, in a three meters by three meters, windowless cubbyhole,

chain smoking cigarettes, and drinking Fortnum and Mason tea, was Robert Brovdy, aka Madhya.

A.k. A man with an automatim in my

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