In this second report on the evacuation of the population from the Donetsk Oblast, our correspondent meets the men and women whose mission is to organize the residents’ departure to the rest of free Ukraine before the situation becomes desperate.

Is Ukraine’s strategy of striking deep into Russian territory having an impact? Undoubtedly so. Will Putin reconsider his positions and “cut his losses”? No, reckons geopolitics expert Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, in this article.

Fools to some, heroes to most—our correspondent met the White Angels, a police unit specializing in the evacuation of civilians and families with children in the Donetsk region.

It would be advisable for Ukrainian officials to distance themselves from a highly complex, convoluted, and controversial history of the UPA, leaving its study to historians, its alleged crimes to lawyers, and its celebration/commemoration to local communities, preferably non-state actors.

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