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...Although morale is high, most of the western-trained soldiers Kyiv is now fielding were civilians until recently and are untested in battle....
...GCHQ also named the head of the unit for the first time: James Babbage, an intelligence officer who has worked for 30 years at GCHQ with spells at the Ministry of Defence and as a liaison officer in the...
...His kitchen could make 10,000 meals a day if running at full tilt, Mykhailenko said, and he was planning a second unit closer to the front line to shorten deliveries....
...A third lesson for Moscow is the importance of quality over quantity....
...Goldman Sachs is preparing for “a tougher environment” by cutting more employees, the bank’s president John Waldron warned on Thursday....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
...Another drawback is that many of the Ukrainians are not trained as units that will fight together after the course as they have been sent by different parts of the military....
...Yuriy Butusov, a reporter embedded with the Ukrainian military in the city, said the unit he was with withdrew from the industrial zone of the city on Thursday night....
...But the fight has also taken on a totemic significance, spun by both sides to bolster morale....
...of front-line Russian morale....
...He said that Russian military planners had long been aware of the constraints of using a conscript army and the low morale that troops tend to have as a result....
...“For each of our platoons, they sent 40 armoured units.”...
...Irpin, for example, was supposed to be an easy bridgehead for the Russians to roll into Kyiv....
...The morale of Ukrainian forces is high but they are fast running out of weapons and new equipment promised by the US and others needs to be delivered immediately to hold their positions let alone push the...
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels and John Paul Rathbone in London...
...M&G Investments, famed for launching the first ever UK unit trust back in 1931, breaks away from insurer Prudential on October 21 in a listing that promises a rapid ascension into the FTSE 100....
...TP ICAP’s removal of chief executive John Phizackerley blows the lid on the tensions that have been simmering for months between the interdealer broker’s board, shareholders and employees....
...The company has admitted the move hit recruitment and morale. Last week the company issued its second profit warning since June, prompting the immediate departure of chief executive Peter Crook....
...It’s not good for morale. There’s a phalanx of people interviewing [for jobs] with rivals.”...
...Less rigid trade union laws, a return to collective bargaining together with the Gaullist policy of worker-directors as in Germany would ensure that morale is raised....
...Cardiff Garcia John Stockton or Isiah Thomas then in the pure point card spot? Tyler Cowen Maybe Isiah Thomas, he’s a little short defensively....
...John Chen, BlackBerry’s chief executive, said there was a “50:50 chance” that his strategy for turning round the lossmaking Canadian smartphone maker would fail, but that he remained optimistic....
...and morale was low....
...A streamlined modern commando unit for the digital age, they brought chaos to our well-ordered household for precisely 12 hours, then disappeared....
...The FT’s very own John Paul Rathbone has written a book about the man who nearly became Castro’s Minister for SugarIn 2007 Hugo Chavez of Venezuela took control of multi-billion oil projects in the Orinoco...
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