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Ukraine: The Latest

Daring new offensive sees Ukraine push 5km behind Russian line

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Vladimir Putin, Jets, Daily News, Guns, Army, Tanks, Documentary, Russians, History, Russia-ukraine Conflict, News, Ukraine, Society & Culture, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Day 1,080.

Today, we talk about Ukrainian advances in Kursk, a potential leaked peace plan from the Trump administration, and the impact of the withdrawal of USAID on Ukrainian media.


Contributors:

Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Narrative Podcast Producer). @adeliepjz on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former British Army Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X

With thanks to Anastasiia Marushevska (editor-in-chief of Ukraїner International and co-founder of PR Army). @_little_grace_ on X.


Content Referenced:


Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in The Telegraph: Trump’s Gaza intervention must have Putin terrified

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/07/trump-gaza-putin-ukraine-peace-plan-terrified/


Mail Online, 'Trump peace plan for Ukraine' is 'leaked'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14367923/Trump-peace-plan-Ukraine-Putin-ceasefire-Easter-Zelensky-NATO.html


The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics and Art: Exploring Ukrainian Identity: In Conversation with Anastasiia Marushevska

https://www.cjlpa.org/post/exploring-ukrainian-identity-in-conversation-with-anastasiia-marushevska


Kyiv Independent: US foreign aid transformed Ukraine. Its suspension threatens decades of work

https://kyivindependent.com/how-us-foreign-aid-transformed-ukraine-through-the-years/


Ukraïner

https://www.ukrainer.net/en/


Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest

Email: [email protected]



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0:00.0

I'm Adeli Pogman-Ponthei, and this is Ukraine, the latest.

0:07.9

Today we talk about Ukrainian advances in Korsk, a potential leaked peace plan from the Trump

0:13.1

administration and the impact of the withdrawal of USAID on Ukrainian media.

0:18.9

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

0:27.9

It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II.

0:32.7

Absolutely fascinating.

0:33.9

We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years.

0:38.9

We can't as European, let us gain the Russia in Ukraine.

0:43.4

Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

0:48.3

It's Friday, the 7th of February, two years and 343 days since the full-scale invasion began. I'm joined by Don Nichols,

0:57.5

Associate Editor for Defence, and former tank commander and chemical weapons expert, Hamish DeBretton

1:03.1

Gordon. So let's start inside Russia. Ukrainian forces seem to have pushed out slightly to the southeast in the lodgment that they have there.

1:14.2

They seem to have launched a new series of battalion-sized mechanized assaults in Kirste Goldblast.

1:19.3

This started yesterday.

1:21.0

We think they've advanced around five kilometres to the southeast of Sousja,

1:25.3

Sousja being the main town, the sort of main base of their

1:27.7

operations inside Russia. Now, Russia's MOD said Ukraine had attacked in several waves with up to two

1:34.5

mechanized battalions' worth of armored vehicles. The Russian MOD said that their troops,

1:39.5

Russia's troops, had repelled the attack. We can't verify any of this. There was a little bit of geolocated footage,

1:45.4

which is where we've got the five kilometres estimate from. But as you'd expect, it's very,

1:49.8

very difficult to get verified information out. Now, the Russian mill blog community went into a frenzy.

1:56.5

Some claimed that Ukraine had advanced much further, others saying that they'd been advanced at all and they'd been pushed back.

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