Devastation in Mariupol
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Day 26. The Telegraph's leading journalists discuss the horrendous situation unfolding on the ground in the besieged city of Mariupol. Plus Lt. General Ben Hodges, who served as a commanding general of the United States Army Europe, on why high defence spending by Russia doesn’t appear to be paying off.
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:03.4 | Podcasts. |
| 0:04.2 | Hi, Tony Diber here, the telegraphs us editor at Washington DC. |
| 0:13.5 | I've launched a new, free-to-read newsletter from the us editor, featuring inside from |
| 0:18.6 | our correspondence around the world and forprivoking opinion from leading journalists in both |
| 0:22.5 | Britain and the USA, the newsletter is packed with the best of the telegraphs global coverage. |
| 0:27.8 | at Telegraph.co.uk forward slash from the US editor to sign up. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we'll discuss the horrendous |
| 0:42.0 | situation unfolding on the ground in the besieged city of Mariapol. Plus, we'll hear from the former |
| 0:47.6 | commanding general of the United States Army Europe on why the Russian military is struggling |
| 0:52.7 | so much. This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in favor. |
| 1:02.9 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:10.1 | Every week day afternoon, I sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London |
| 1:14.1 | Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war |
| 1:19.4 | in Ukraine. It's day 26, and today I'm joined by Dom Knickles, the Telegraph's Defence and |
| 1:26.1 | Security Editor, and Vinny Shureny, the Telegraph's Assistant Foreign Editor. Dom, can I start with you? |
| 1:32.3 | It's been a few days since we last recorded this podcast. What have been the big developments |
| 1:36.6 | over the weekend? Hi, David. Hi, everybody. So the big news, if it is news, is that the Russian |
| 1:44.5 | advance has stalled. That is the latest assessment from British defence intelligence. The |
| 1:49.8 | advance of the northeast of the capital has stalled, and Russian advances into the north west |
| 1:55.8 | around the hospital airfield have been repulsed again, that's MOD's words. They say that the bulk |
| 2:01.7 | of Russian forces, now 25 kilometers from the city, the Ukrainian forces have recaptured |
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