World Briefing Plus: A Grim Week That Redrew the World’s Warning Lines

Russia’s strikes on Ukraine, Putin’s push for territory, drones tailing Zelensky abroad, kids sent to N Korea & megacities collapsing - a week when multiple crises collided, demanding global attention

This week felt like a series of alarm bells ringing across continents. In Ukraine, Russia’s overnight barrages of rockets and drones left cities and towns reeling - a grim reminder that the trajectory is worsening, not stabilizing. Putin is hardening his so-called peace posture, openly musing about seizing even more of the Donbas and potentially land-locking Ukraine by targeting its ports. Hybrid warfare followed Zelensky abroad, with mysterious drones appearing in Ireland just as he landed. And then came one of the most shocking revelations of the war: Ukrainian children forcibly taken by Russia are now being shipped to North Korea for indoctrination - a chilling expansion of the conflict’s footprint into the Asia-Pacific. Add to this the deeply disturbing reports that some of the world’s great delta megacities - Shanghai, Karachi, Dhaka - are edging toward a watery grave as population pressure and climate extremes collide. It was not an uplifting week. But in today’s video, I connect these threads to show why these events matter to all of us - and why supporting independent reporting like World Briefing helps keep the global picture clear.

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