Putin 'may stop air attacks' to placate Trump & Mongoose, Ukraine’s new jet-powered, shotgun-carrying interceptor drone

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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