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On the evening of August 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traditionally addressed the Ukrainians. Export grain initiative has been working for almost a month, and during this time we [Ukraine] exported the first one million tons of agricultural products from our three sea ports - Chornomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhny - since February 24. Ukrainian grain and the very fact that our direction of delivery to the global food market has started to work, allows us to avoid chaos in the market, relieve the acuteness of the food crisis, prevent a catastrophic deficit. Ukraine was, is and will be among the...

... An American military intelligence officer points to historical precedents for such odd hesitation by Russian forces over the past two months. He cites the observation by BH Liddell Hart of the puzzling behavior of the Russians in World War II after the critical victory at Kursk: Advance of Russian forces was very slow and never able to decisively exploit obvious holes in the German line. But the successes kept coming and the Red Army leadership never risked or incurred a major loss or a major flanking movement again as had happened at the outset of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa. It’s...