The Economist.

Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer.

I'm Jason Palmer.

Every week day we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. much we know. But the scientists trying to find out how and why are being prevented

from doing that rather necessary work even though it could help us prevent future

pandemic. And last year nearly two-fifths of recorded music revenues in Japan came from the sale of CDs.

C. D's. We ask what's behind that ongoing love affair when the rest of the world is streaming away from physical media. But first. Time is not on Ukraine's side. The longer the war drags on, the more dire things become.

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bombing campaigns against eastern Ukrainian towns and cities, particularly in the D'Anetston Harkiv regions, are now being paired with pushes from Russian ground forces.

To maintain its defense, Ukraine badly needs more soldiers and more ammunition at the front line.

But no one is queuing at the recruitment offices like they did in the early days

just after the full scale invasion.

So move fire. When you come up, start shooting, no assault enemy contact. Last week, Ukrainian President Flodemoiselenski signed amendments to a

mobilization law that was debated for months in Parliament before finally

being passed.

The bill will require military-aged men to register their whereabouts online, and it lowers the

mobilization age from 27 to 25. But Ukraine also has to weigh the risk of so many young men

dying in battle, so depriving the country of prospective fathers to the next generation.

Can Ukraine overcome this challenge among the many others that it faces in the fight for its future.

Ukraine is in the balance as much as it has been at any time since the early days of the war.

Oliver Carroll is the economist Ukraine correspondent.

The next two months will be absolutely critical because Ukraine is facing difficulties on every side of the triangle of

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