An uncertain outlook across Ukraine
Russia’s atrocities in Mariupol have not brought it closer to victory. But they have not yet spread farther afield, either
IN GEOPHYSICS, an epicentre is the place on the surface of the Earth closest to the point in its depths where intolerable pressure has triggered an earthquake. In war-torn Ukraine, the Epicentr hypermarket in Zaporyzhzhya is the rallying point in government-held territory closest to the intolerable pressure Russian forces have imposed on Mariupol, some 220km away.
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