Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer.

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

Getting in a car is by the numbers more dangerous than climbing on a plane or a train.

In one country though, you're taking a notably higher risk.

We ask why so many road deaths occur in India and what measures are being taken to reduce them.

And these days the question of who's concerned by climate change is one that's shaped by ideology

and politics.

But our data team has dug through surveys to find two other factors that explain a great

deal of the divide in climate change fears.

A Russian artillery attack at the weekend pounded Ukraine's southern city of Mika live,

leaving firefighters working flat out to douse the flames.

President Vladimir Zelensky described it as the most brutal shelling of the entire period

of the full-scale war.

Russia's campaign in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine seems to be running out of steam,

so the focus is again on the south.

Mika live and nearby her son, the largest city the Russians have occupied.

Ukrainian troops are making gains in a counteroffensive to retake her son.

British intelligence said Ukraine's strike on an ammunition train would probably damage

Russia's ability to resupply troops in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

But Mika live is still very much in Russia's sights.

Yesterday, missiles leveled a supermarket and damaged an apartment block in the city.

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