8,000 Russian armoured vehicles destroyed & Moscow scooter bomb kills nuclear general
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,028.
Today, we react to the news that the Russian general in charge of the military’s nuclear and chemical weapons division has been assassinated in a scooter bomb attack, we hear live from the Joint Expeditionary Force summit in Estonia, and we hear our latest dispatch from the frontline city of Kharkiv.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former British Army Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.
With thanks to Jack Leather and Adélie Pojzman-Pontay for photographs, videos, and recordings.
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Francis's Article on the Kharkiv underground School, with photos and clips:
Articles Referenced:
Why Russian blimps appearing on Nato’s border are a message from Moscow (James in The Telegraph)
The 500-mile high speed rail line that can carry Nato troops to a war with Russia (James in The Telegraph)
Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits (Foreign Policy)
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| 1:05.3 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we react to news that the general in charge of Russia's nuclear and chemical weapons division |
| 1:15.0 | has been assassinated in a scooter bomb attack in Moscow. |
| 1:18.7 | Here live from the Joint Expeditionary Force Summit in Estonia, |
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