75. The war comes to Moscow

Battleground

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week Saul and Patrick consider recent Ukrainian gains on the battlefield, the ramping up of Ukrainian drone strikes on targets inside Russia and in the Black Sea, including high rise office buildings in Moscow. They also discuss Russia’s response to pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal and the latest coming out of Belarus - where the Wagner saga rumbles on. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.5	Hello and welcome to the Friday episode of the Battleground Ukraine podcast with me, Patrick Bishop and Saul David.
1:29.3	Well, we were caught slightly on the hop last week as news of Ukrainian gains on the battlefield came in too late for us to include. Sorry about that. We consider those this week and also the ramping up of Ukrainian drone strikes on targets inside Russia and in the
1:35.9	Black Sea. Well, meanwhile, Moscow's ill-considered an ultimately counterproductive response to all this
1:41.9	was to attack Ukrainian grain storage facilities and civilian
1:45.7	apartment blocks and also to threaten all civilian ships traveling through the Black Sea towards
1:51.0	Ukrainian ports. And in Belarus, the Wagner Sagna rumbles on, you won't be surprised to hear,
1:56.8	with Yevgeny Progoshin making his first public statement in a while, and President
2:01.6	Lukashenko telling Poland that it should thank him for keeping Progogian's men on a leash.
2:07.3	As we've said many times on the podcast, you really couldn't make all this up.
2:11.4	Let's start off by considering those Ukrainian battlefield gains and what they tell us about
2:16.8	the overall prospects for the counteroffensive.
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