The U.S. and Russia clashed again yesterday in a dispute pitting the West against President Vladimir Putin, who refuses to call off troops massed at the Ukraine border. Across the pond, the U.K. may soon be seeking a new prime minister after a bombshell report detailed secret parties at Downing Street at the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The hate crime trial of two of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers will proceed after a U.S. district court judge rejected a plea deal. And in Ecuador, an oil spill threatens Indigenous people and wildlife in the Amazon rainforest. All this and more in today’s PDB.