BBCNEWS The July 5, 2024
distracted international attention, and will now seek, he says, to provoke further conflicts elsewhere. he pointed towards the weakness of the international sanctions regime, which means russia is still able to build and maintain a military—industrial complex in pursuit of war. and he points the finger at the draught in ukraine, which is not, he said, currerntly fit for purpose. so how will international partners interpret all of that? we arejoined by — yaroslav trofimov, the chief foreign affairs correspondent of the wall streetjournal. and the author of the recently published b...