Gut-wrenching to see Bakhmut destroyed like this. I’ve seen countless such videos and photos now and it hits hard every time. This is what Russia has wrought on Ukraine. This video shows the central blocks of what used to be a vibrant city of 80,000 residents. It’s filmed heading…

.Financial Times X $BKSY #topstory details Russia's #BlackSea fleet redeployment east from #Sevastopol plus upgraded harbor defenses as #Ukraine reopens shipping corridors in west.

1K+ images with #AI detection #analytics over 2 yrs = insight at scale. More from Sam Joiner below. ⬇️

Many thanks to The Society of Publishers in Asia judges for nominating our mosque and fentanyl investigations as finalists in the
#SOPAwards2024 : ig.ft.com/china-mosques/ and ig.ft.com/fentanyl-crisi…

Russia shipped more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March in defiance of UN sanctions, the White House said on Thursday. The US is preparing sanctions to target those aiding such transfers, Felicia Schwartz and Chris Cook report ft.com/content/2dfe64…

Check-out Financial Times's visual story on how Ukraine broke Russia's grip in the Black Sea. A superbly crafted and informative story with insights from our own Daniel Fiott. The story was produced by Sam Joiner Sam Learner Dan Clark Irene de la Torre Arenas Ian Bott

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Ukraine has disabled or destroyed a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

We look at how Kyiv's Black Sea successes have enabled exports from Odesa and other key ports to return to pre-war levels ig.ft.com/black-sea/

“Putin has prepared for this. But the scale of recent Russian losses for limited gains, and the embarrassment of not being able to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, means that he still lacks an obvious route to victory,” writes ⁦Lawrence Freedman⁩ on.ft.com/4dfXL5u

A key part of the genocide in Xinjiang is the erasure of Uyghur culture and the targeting of the people who study and preserve it. This profile of Rahile Dawut, a famous Uyghur academic, is well worth your time.
A disappearance in Xinjiang via Financial Times
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A wild, wonderful FT Weekend Magazine cover story by the inimitable Oliver Roeder on the battle for land in the American West. Superb graphics by Sam Learner and Steven Bernard to top things off. Make this your lunchtime read!

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

NEW: Rwanda’s state-owned airline RwandAir turned down a UK government proposal to transport asylum seekers to Kigali last year because it feared damaging its brand
W/ William Wallis FT 1/3
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