Furious fighting in the east, the story from Lithuania’s border & Anna from Kyiv tells us her war story
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Day 121.
Today, we discuss the latest news from the front as Ukrainian troops pull back from Severodonetsk, after weeks of pounding by Russian artillery. Plus, we hear from our Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes who’s returned back from the Kaliningrad-Lithuania border. He talks about his reporting there and gives an insight into the EU’s thinking on Ukraine’s candidacy status.
And finally, we speak to Anna Virstan. Anna’s from Kyiv where she lives with her husband and her dog. She spent the opening days of the war watching missiles fly over her apartment while battling COVID-19 - she tells us her story.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host)
Dom Nicholls (Defence and Security Editor)
Venetia Rainey (Assistant Foreign Editor)
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspodent)
With thanks to Anna Virstan
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
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| 0:21.0 | and for provoking opinion from leading journalists in both Britain and the USA, |
| 0:25.0 | the newsletter is packed with the best of the telegraph's global coverage. |
| 0:27.0 | Visit Telegraph.co.uk forward slash from the US editor to sign up. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm David Nulls and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:43.0 | Today we discuss the latest news from the front as Ukrainian troops pull back from several |
| 0:47.2 | Donetsk after weeks of pounding by Russian artillery. |
| 0:50.7 | We hear from our Brussels correspondent, Joe Barnes, who's just got back from the |
| 0:54.1 | Kaliningrad Lithuania border. |
| 0:56.2 | He talks to us about his reporting there and gives us an insight into the EU's thinking |
| 1:00.5 | on Ukraine's candidate status for EU membership. |
| 1:03.4 | And finally, I speak to Anna Vertsen, Anna's from Kiev, where she lives with her husband |
| 1:08.2 | and her dog. |
| 1:09.2 | She spent the opening days of the war watching missiles fly over her apartment while battling |
| 1:13.6 | COVID-19. |
| 1:15.2 | She tells us her story. |
| 1:23.6 | Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's |
| 1:35.9 | London newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and |
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