Dobropillya, a city in Donetsk Oblast, has become one of the many unyielding points on a vast and bloody map. It is not one of the names that received worldwide attention at the start of the full-scale invasion—not a Mariupol or a Bakhmut—but it belongs to the same geography of sorrow and defiance. Against the official narrative broadcast from Moscow, the city remains firmly under the control of Ukrainian forces, specifically the National Guard’s 1st “Azov” Corps and the units attached to it. Russian reports, repeated in state media, paint a picture of collapsing defenses, overwhelmed battalions, and surrounded garrisons.…

Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the UK prime minister delivered what felt like a warning and a promise. With the world’s attention fixed on war, climate and inequality, he insisted that the next great battle would be fought not only on physical battlefields but in the information we consume and the algorithms that shape our thinking. The United Kingdom, he argued, wants to be at the forefront of setting global safety standards for artificial intelligence—an ethical framework that can keep pace with a technology moving faster than laws, governments and public understanding. He described AI…