Fire engulfs Russian oil refinery after drone attack & British MOD says Russia has ‘ceded the initiative’ to Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Day 461.
Today, we report on further suspected Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia, brings you the latest diplomatic updates from around the world, and analyse the UK ministry of Defence reports that Russia is “losing the initiative” in its war in Ukraine.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Associate Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, we report from further suspected Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia, |
| 0:19.0 | bringing you the latest diplomatic updates from around the world |
| 0:22.0 | and analyse the UK's Ministry of Defence's view |
| 0:25.0 | that Russia is seeding the initiative in its war in Ukraine. |
| 0:29.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:39.0 | This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in vain. |
| 0:45.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. |
| 0:52.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:58.0 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London Newsroom |
| 1:02.0 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:08.0 | It's Wednesday, the 31st of May, one year and 96 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:14.0 | And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor for Defence Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:17.0 | an Assistant Comment Editor for Frances Dernley. |
| 1:20.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:25.0 | Hi, David. Hi, everybody. So let's start. |
| 1:28.0 | We're going to predominantly stay inside Russia, actually. A lot of things going bang, |
| 1:32.0 | but let's start the Fipsky oil refinery. |
| 1:35.0 | So we're in southern Russia here. We're about 100km east southeast of the Kirsh bridge. |
| 1:40.0 | A large fire there broke out after what the local Russian governor said was a Ukrainian drone strike. |
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