This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (7:24 - 7:24) Revenge of the Political Establishment and the Financial Markets: Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak Set to Become Britain’s Newest Prime Minister

PART II (9:48 - 9:48) Just Ask Napoleon or Hitler: In Russia and Ukraine, Winter is More Powerful Than Any Army

PART III (13:44 - 13:44) Russia’s Taking of Children and the Strategy of Russification: A War Crime Takes Shape

• Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War by New York Times (Emma Bubola)
• Russian TV Host Who Urged Ukrainian Children be Drowned is Suspended by Kremlin Broadcaster RT by Fortune (Christiaan Hetzner)

PART IV (18:8 - 18:8) A City Without Men: The Consequences of War Show Up on Russian Streets

• Where Have All the Men in Moscow Gone? by New York Times (Valerie Hopkins)

PART V (25:31 - 25:31) ‘Exploitative, Ethically and Logistically Complex, Even in Peacetime’: Ukraine Revives Surrogacy Industry

• How Ukraine’s Surrogate Mothers Have Survived the War by New York Times (Maria Varenikova and Andrew E. Kramer)