grain deal

Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explore how to get the deal back on track. A month-long mystery surrounding China’s absent foreign minister has grown deeper: now his memory is being scrubbed from official websites (10:15). And literary criticism has lost its claws—gaining a newfound civility that is bad for readers (16:37).

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Day 510.

Today, we bring you news from across Ukraine, talk Ukrainian politics with Professor Olga Onuch and, continuing our week of stories focusing on the abduction of Ukrainian children, David interviews The Telegraph's Russia correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva about Russia’s ombudswoman for children’s rights Maria Lvova-Belova.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter, Putin’s ‘child-snatcher’ and the mystery of her adopted Mariupol boy

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.

Olga Onuch (Ukrainian Politics Professor). @oonuch on Twitter, co-author of The Zelensky Effect

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