Day 811

Thick in the middle

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks to board a Ukrainian Railways train at Przemysl Glowny train station while traveling to Kyiv, on May 13, 2024, in Przemysl, Poland. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)

Tony is in town today for pep talks¹. Maybe he has a message for the thousands of residents of northern areas of Kharkiv region who were evacuated in recent days.

Maybe not.

Ukraine’s general responsible for the defense of the northeastern Kharkiv front, Yuriy Halushkin, has been replaced by General Mykhaylo Drapatiy. Halushkin, as we recall, replaced General Andriy Hrytskov at the start of May.