Analysing the opening months of the war & Brittney Griner swapped for Russian arms dealer
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Day 289.
Today, we discuss the fierce fighting taking place on the battlefront and explore what the prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner means for US- Russia relations.
Plus, we take a closer look at the report from the Royal United Services Institute, the UK’s oldest defence and security think tank, into what conflict in Ukraine teaches us about the future of warfare.
Contributors:
Claire Hubble (Host). @ByClaireHubble on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Claire Hubble, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, we discuss the fierce fighting taking place on the battlefront |
| 0:18.0 | and explore what the prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittany Griner |
| 0:23.0 | means for US-Russia relations. |
| 0:27.0 | This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure. |
| 0:37.0 | Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilized energy markets the world over. |
| 0:43.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:50.0 | Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists |
| 0:53.0 | at Telegraph's London Newsroom and our team supporting on the ground |
| 0:56.0 | to bring you the latest news and analysis from the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:00.0 | It's Friday, the 9th of December, day 289. |
| 1:05.0 | And today, I'm joined by associate editor Dominic Nichols |
| 1:09.0 | and assistant comment editor Frances Dernley. |
| 1:12.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest updates from Ukraine. |
| 1:16.0 | Sure, well hi Claire and hi everybody. |
| 1:18.0 | It's been exceptionally violent over the last 24 hours, |
| 1:22.0 | but in a very, very confined area. |
| 1:25.0 | So the next region, Governor Pavlov Kurelenko, Ukrainian chap, |
| 1:31.0 | is saying that the Russian forces have been shelling the entire front line |
| 1:36.0 | in the area, particularly around Buckmoot and Ivka. |
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