Square in their sights: Kharkiv under siege
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The levelling of Freedom Square in Ukraine’s second city is powerfully symbolic. One resident has been speaking to us daily since the invasion began. In the American West, minerals crucial to a clean-energy transition abound. We examine the opposition to a looming new mining boom. And a revealing meal with our food columnist: we have big news about “The Intelligence”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.9 | There's lithium in them bare hills and cobalt and copper. |
| 0:23.1 | America's West again has minerals under the surface that are in demand, this time for |
| 0:27.5 | a clean energy transition. |
| 0:29.6 | We ask how to have another mining boom that doesn't leave such a nasty legacy. |
| 0:36.1 | And our food columnist gets me out of the office to visit a restaurant that bucks a global |
| 0:40.8 | trend of blandness. |
| 0:42.4 | It turns out to be a chance to share some big news about the show. |
| 0:56.0 | We stop though. |
| 1:02.4 | Today a Russian missile destroyed freedom square in Harcouth, Ukraine's second city. |
| 1:08.5 | It's a continuation of indiscriminate shelling that began yesterday. |
| 1:14.3 | Just as peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials got underway, it remains unclear |
| 1:19.7 | just how many civilian lives have been lost. |
| 1:23.5 | President Vladimir Zelensky has called the targeting of civilians a war crime and the international |
| 1:28.8 | criminal court is already investigating. |
| 1:37.6 | Peace talks ended with no resolution, though the head of Russia's delegation Vladimir |
| 1:42.2 | Medinsky said discussions would soon continue. |
| 1:50.1 | Meanwhile the capital Kiev is braced for a more vicious fight and so is Harcouth. |
| 1:56.2 | It's no surprise that the Russian campaign has a focus there. |
| 1:59.8 | Besides the fact that it's well connected to the rest of the country, Harcouth has a long |
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