On a London-NY flight, when attendant Consuelo comes to thank me for flying.
“What do you do?”
“Journalist.”
“Where?”
“FT,” pointing to my FT paper.
“I read it all the time! What do you write for them?”
“Ukraine correspondent.”
“Oh gosh. Has Bakhmut fallen?”
“No. Bakhmut holds.”

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