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Sensemaker: The no no-fly zone strategy

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  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were reunited with their families at RAF Brize Norton after being held as hostages in Tehran for six and five years respectively; and after Britain paid Iran an outstanding debt of nearly £400 million.
  • Russian forces bombed a theatre in Mariupol despite signs outside saying “children” that were big enough to be photographed from space (more below).
  • Biden called Putin a war criminal, and Putin called pro-western Russians “scum”.

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