The Intelligence: Russia pushes back on Kharkiv
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The northeastern province has been subject to more and more shelling, and Western officials are worried about Ukraine’s capacity to respond. Could there be a breakthrough? Not everyone is happy with the 28-year-old building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery (08:51). And, some of the best comic novels (16:46).
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| 1:50.0 | A 28-year-old mom is building America's first nickel-cobalt refinery. She hopes to reduce the world's reliance on metals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, |
| 1:55.0 | which are mostly mined unethically. |
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