[Interview] Ukraine journalist Vitaliy Sych: When Russians discuss Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, it means ‘they got their asses kicked’

AI Briefing

• – Russian losses and propaganda are a subject of discussion in Russia as they reveal the extent of their failures.
• – The Russian leadership's nostalgia for 19th-century writers is a distraction from their current struggles.
• – Gulf countries' interest in buying Ukrainian military technology is seen as a sign of their own military weakness.