Take a listen to my colleagues discussing Biden’s decision to allow Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil with US-supplied Atacms and Olaf Scholz’s recent call with Vladimir Putin.

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I’ve spoken to numerous EU diplomats and officials tonight about Olaf Scholz’s call with Putin, they mostly argue that it was made in desperation on Scholz’s part.

An EU official tells me: ‘he is fighting for survival domestically so wanted possibly to divert attention.