Do the attacks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant risk another Chernobyl?
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Day 170.
Today, further to usual updates from the frontline of the war, we ask a sobering question: do the attacks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant risk another Chernobyl? Plus how the war is shaping Ukrainian attitudes to their country and themselves.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Host, Assistant Comment Editor). Follow Francis on Twitter @FrancisDearnley
Dom Nicholls (Defence & Security Editor). Follow Dom on Twitter @DomNicholls
With thanks to:
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. Follow Hamish on Twitter @HamishDBG
Mariam Naiem. Follow Mariam on Twitter @mariamposts
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| 0:38.6 | I'm Francis Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today further to our usual updates from |
| 0:44.6 | the frontline of the war, we ask a sobering question. Do the attacks around the Zappareza |
| 0:49.7 | nuclear power plant risk another Chernobyl? |
| 1:03.3 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:09.5 | Every week, day after, we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London Newsroom |
| 1:14.0 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war |
| 1:19.0 | in Ukraine. It's Friday, the 12th of August, day 170 and today I'm joined by two guests |
| 1:26.6 | new to the podcast. The first Hamish-D Breton Gordon is a chemical weapons expert and formerly |
| 1:33.0 | a British Army officer for 23 years. He was the commanding officer of the UK's joint chemical |
| 1:38.5 | biological, radiological and nuclear regiment and NATO's rapid reaction CBRN battalion. |
| 1:45.2 | Our second guest is Mariam Name, a Ukrainian cultural researcher of Afghan origin. She'll be |
| 1:50.6 | offering reflections on how Russian aggression gave birth to the Azov battalion and other far-right |
| 1:55.2 | elements in Ukraine and how the war is shaping Ukrainian attitudes to both their country |
| 2:00.4 | and themselves. But before that, here are our headlines for today. |
| 2:06.0 | Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of risking nuclear disaster by shelling Europe's |
| 2:10.4 | largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of |
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