Southern strategy: the coming bid to retake Kherson

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

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The city remains Ukraine’s only provincial capital to be taken by Russian forces—can Ukraine overcome its shortages of manpower and firepower to retake the province? Mexico’s official missing-persons list has topped 100,000; our correspondent describes the skyrocketing total and piecemeal efforts to slow its rise. And research suggests that people choose their friends at least in part by smell. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
0:06.7	Today in London I'm your host Jason Palmer.
0:10.0	Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:18.2	There are now officially more than 100,000 people missing in Mexico.
0:23.6	We ask why so many are disappearing and why that grim total has been rising so much
0:28.4	in recent years.
0:31.7	And we look at some new research with a surprising outcome.
0:35.5	People who are friends tend to smell similar to one another.
0:38.8	It's not just coincidence.
0:40.8	It would appear people might in part choose their friends aromatically.
0:56.2	Let's start up though.
1:04.4	Russia claimed full control of Luhansk yesterday, a region in Ukraine's eastern Donbass that's
1:10.1	the sharp focus of its campaign.
1:12.7	Russian forces said they'd captured the city of Lysonsk, the last Ukrainian holdout in
1:17.5	the region.
1:21.7	The footage released by Chechen fighters helping Russia showed them raising a Soviet flag in
1:26.2	the city and shouting in celebration.
1:29.0	Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky remained sanguine.
1:38.5	We're gradually moving forward he said.
1:40.6	In the Kharkiv region, in the Kherson region, there will be a day when we will say the same
1:45.0	about Donbass.
1:46.9	The mention of Kherson is a pointed one.
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