Exclusive Interview with General Budanov, Ukraine's military spy chief
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
All this week, our regular hosts David Knowles, Dominic Nicholls and Francis Dearnley are on the ground in Ukraine, conducting major interviews with senior figures, hearing testimony of Kyiv citizens and reporting on the run-up to the two-year anniversary of the full scale invasion.
Day 727.
Today, we bring you an exclusive interview with General Kyrylo Budanov, Kyiv's military spy chief, plus the latest news from Ukraine as Zelensky says Donald Trump ‘can’t solve the problem of the Ukraine war’ and fresh sanctions are imposed on Russia.
Contributors:
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
Team in Ukraine:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Watch the Interview with General Budanov:
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| 0:00.0 | I'm little bit older than Rodolov and you listen to Ukraine's latest. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Roland Olaf and today we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, |
| 0:13.2 | and Vladimir Zelensky says Donald Trump |
| 0:15.0 | can't solve the problem of the Ukraine war |
| 0:17.0 | and fresh sanctions are imposed on Russia. |
| 0:19.6 | We'll also have an exclusive interview |
| 0:20.9 | with the Ukraine's spy chief General Budanov and James Rothwell talks |
| 0:24.5 | about his conversation with the head of the German army. |
| 0:27.0 | Bravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:36.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, |
| 0:39.0 | the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:41.0 | Slava Ukrainian. Nobody is going to break us. |
| 0:45.0 | We are strong. |
| 0:46.0 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:59.0 | It's Friday the 23rd of February 2024, one year and 363 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:07.0 | Today I'm joined by James Rothwell and a team in Kiev, Dominic Nichols and David Knowles. |
| 1:12.0 | I started with the latest military |
| 1:14.5 | updates from Ukraine. Three people have been killed in a drone strike in Kyiv, |
| 1:20.1 | hit Russian also the commercial area in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa, |
| 1:24.4 | killing three people according to the Ukrainian military. The drone count overnight is 31 |
| 1:29.6 | Russian drones launched air defenses destroying 23 according to the Ukrainian military. |
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