Chaotic fighting in the Donbas & Norway's attitudes to its neighbour
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Day 959.
Today, we report on chaotic fighting in the Donbas town of Torestsk as Russia continues its grinding offensive there, Vladimir Putin announces a surprise summit with Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian in a move that could further enmesh the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and hear from Oslo about why the Norwegian government is cutting aid to Ukraine despite fears Russia may Test Nato in the Arctic.
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Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.
James Kilner (Russia Correspondent). @jkjourno on X.
Jørn Sund-Henriksen (Co Host of Ukrainapodden). @J_SundHenriksen on X.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Roland Olfand and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we report on |
| 0:07.8 | chaotic fighting in the Dombass town of Terets because Russia continues its |
| 0:11.2 | grinding offensive there. |
| 0:12.6 | Vladimir Putin announces a surprise summit with Iran's president, |
| 0:15.8 | Masoud Pezeshkhan, in a move that could further enmeshed the wars in Ukraine and the Middle |
| 0:20.4 | East. |
| 0:21.4 | And we hear from Oslo about why the Norwegian government is cutting aid to Ukraine |
| 0:25.5 | despite fears Russia may test NATO in the Arctic. |
| 0:29.1 | Bravery takes you through the most |
| 0:38.0 | hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:45.4 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:49.2 | Keep stand strong. Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:53.2 | We're strong. |
| 0:54.2 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:57.1 | It's Tuesday, the 8th of October. |
| 0:59.6 | Two years and 232 days since the full scale invasion began. Today I'm joined by Russia Corros. and Association and co-host of the podcast Ukraine Apoton. I started with the latest |
| 1:16.0 | battlefield updates from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:20.3 | So in the Kursk region, Ukraine has reported to be maintaining or continuing to |
| 1:26.5 | assault Russian positions near several villages. We've heard the names of Novi Put, |
| 1:31.9 | Vesilovir, Lubimovka and Plihova. |
| 1:35.1 | The Russians also continuing their, well, |
| 1:38.6 | counter-offensive is what they're calling it. |
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