Car bomb in Melitopol and comparing Churchill and Zelensky
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Day 303. Today, we discuss the Russian destruction of the ruined theatre in Mariupol, look at the recent car bomb in Melitopol and compare Zelensky’s trip to Washington to Winston Churchill’s visit to the White House at the height of the second world war in December 1941.
Plus we hear from the charity Lumos about the work they are doing to help children in Ukraine.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Daniel Capurro (Senior Reporter). @CapurrodDaniel on Twitter.
Claire Hubble (Co-host). @byclairehubble on Twitter.
With thanks to Galina Bulat and Freya Paleit from Lumos. @lumos on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, we discuss the Russian destruction of the ruined theatre in Mariupol. |
| 0:18.0 | We look at the recent car bomb in Militoppor, and we compare Volodymyr Zelensky's trip to Washington |
| 0:23.0 | to Winston Churchill's visit to the White House at the height of the Second World War in December 1941. |
| 0:29.0 | This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure. |
| 0:39.0 | Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilized energy markets the world over. |
| 0:45.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:51.0 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London Newsroom, |
| 0:55.0 | and our team is reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.0 | It's Friday, 23rd of December, day 303. |
| 1:06.0 | Today, to discuss the most recent events in Ukraine and around the world, |
| 1:10.0 | I'm joined by our associate editor, Dominic Mikkels, and our senior reporter and history correspondent, Daniel Kapura. |
| 1:16.0 | I started by asking Don for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi, David. Hi, everybody. So there's been a car bomb by the look of it in Militoppor. |
| 1:28.0 | This is a southern port city, a Russian occupier at the moment, port city of Militoppor. |
| 1:33.0 | There are reports suggesting that there are two people in the car injured, one possibly lost a limb, |
| 1:40.0 | and reports suggesting that they might be FSB, so Russian security agents. |
| 1:47.0 | However, I can't find where that claim has come from, that they are FSB. |
| 1:52.0 | So Ivan Fedorov, who is the exiled Ukrainian mayor of Militoppor, |
| 1:56.0 | he's confirmed the explosion on his telegram channel, but said the identity of the victims was still being clarified. |
| 2:02.0 | So I've yet to see anywhere that has said his FSB. However, this does fit a pattern in that area of Ukraine. |
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