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I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we analyze the latest updates from

the battlefront, discuss the military concept of risk and how you calculate it, and we get the view

of the conflict from Japan.

This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in vain.

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

Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London

Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis

on the war in Ukraine. It's Friday, the 1st of July, day 128, and today I'm joined by the

Telegraph's Defence and Security Editor, Dominic Nichols, Assistant Foreign Editor,

Venetia Rainy, and Assistant Commentator, Frances Dernley. As always, I started by asking

Dom and Venetia for news from the front lines across Ukraine.

So let's say the main update today is the strikes that we've had around Odessa in the south.

So we had two strikes overnight that have killed at least 19 people. One was on a nine-story

apartment block and the other was on a holiday resort among the dead of two children. So quite a

heavy death toll even among the grimness of the Ukraine war. There are about 38 people injured,

including six more children and a pregnant woman. Apparently the rescuers are still digging

through rubble but are starting to lose hope of finding any more survivors. The strikes happened

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