The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

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

Russia. we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Russia's relentless strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure

are taking their toll now more than ever during a particularly harsh winter.

We visit Kiev, the capital, and ask frigid citizens how they cope

without heat, electricity electricity or even water,

sometimes for days on end.

And if you do any kind of physical activity at all, you've probably heard of Strava,

an app that helps you track your progress and sends you nice messages even when you achieve

something pretty mediocre.

Now the fitness app has its own goal, an IPO.

First up, though.

They say it's lonely at the top, perhaps most of all at the top of China's military leadership.

This weekend, the defense ministry announced that two senior generals in the Central Military Commission

were under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

The charge sheet was long but vague. An editorial in the Army's mouthpiece suggested they had fueled corruption, impaired combat readiness,

and undermined the authority of Xi Jinping, who, of course, is the

commission's top dog. It's hard to know what's really going on here, but whatever the reasoning,

it's bad news for a leader so fixated on projecting stability, and one who has ever fewer

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