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Aug 6
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Day 1,260.

Today, as Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff meets Vladimir Putin for so-called ceasefire negotiations, President Zelensky releases a video marking a year since Ukrainian troops invaded Russia’s Kursk oblast and Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office opens another investigation into alleged Russian war crimes after a video emerges of a civilian being gunned down in the Donbas. Plus, we explore issues around the use of tourniquets in combat and how their misuse might be causing unnecessary deaths.


Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Maeve Cullinan (Global health security reporter). @maeve_cullinan on X.


Content Referenced:

‘Cult’ of tourniquets causing thousands of unnecessary amputations and deaths in Ukraine, say surgeons (Maeve Cullinan in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/cult-of-tourniquets-causing-unnecessary-amputations-deaths/ 


Putin considers missile and drone truce as Trump envoy arrives in Moscow (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/06/putin-mulls-missile-drone-truce-trump-envoy-moscow/ 


Exclusive: Putin doubts potency of Trump's ultimatum to end the war, sources say (Reuters):

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-doubts-potency-trumps-ultimatum-end-war-sources-say-2025-08-05/ 


Trump’s Ukraine peace plan: Make India pay (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/06/trumps-ukraine-peace-plan-runs-straight-through-old-friend/ 


Why the laws of war are widely ignored (The Economist):

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/08/05/why-the-laws-of-war-are-widely-ignored 


Sviatlana Tsikanouskaya (List of events marking five years of protest):

https://tsikhanouskaya.org/en/news/join-events-on-august-9-to-mark-five-years-since-the-2020-protests-in-belarus.html


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