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The Intelligence from The Economist

Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Daily News, Global News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical cancer; we ask why and where jab rates are falling. And why airlines have more money tied up in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.

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0:00.0

Financial markets are more complex than ever.

0:02.4

That's why Goldman Sachs is breaking down the key factors driving the economy each week.

0:07.4

Join us every Friday for just 10 minutes or less.

0:10.2

Listen to the markets, a new series from the Goldman Sachs exchanges podcast.

0:18.7

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.

0:22.7

And I'm Orret Bougambee.

0:25.2

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

0:32.6

Servical cancer is one of the world's deadliest diseases, killing hundreds of thousands of women each year.

0:38.6

But vaccinations make it almost entirely preventable.

0:42.2

Our correspondent looks at the data to see where those jobs are and aren't being given.

0:48.2

And last week, many of the world's biggest airlines met up for their annual jamboree.

0:55.2

They have lots to win about, especially how much money they all have trapped in Nigeria.

1:01.2

We speak with one frequent flyer about the very real impacts of these blocked funds.

1:10.2

But first...

1:18.2

It's now official. Ukraine's long awaited counteroffensive is underway,

1:23.2

as President Balotomir Zelensky confirmed over the weekend.

1:37.2

It is important that Russia always feels this.

1:39.2

Mr. Zelensky said that they do not have long left, but he gave no further details.

1:45.2

What's clear is a renewed push in Buckmoot, a city that's been reduced to rubble as a psychological,

1:51.2

if not tactical, focus of the war.

1:59.2

Small Ukrainian gains are becoming apparent, most of all in three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk.

2:06.2

The Ukrainian spokesman said he'd been authorized to declare the villages liberated from Russian occupation.

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