Green light for F-16s as Russia commander says Moscow should seek 'truce'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Day 540.
Today, we discuss a drone strike close to the Kremlin, how a Russian commander says Putin won’t defeat Ukraine in the near term and should seek a ‘truce’ and how another 400 Ukrainian children have been sent to so-called summer camps in Russia in recent weeks for ‘patriotic training’.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Henry Samuel (Paris Correspondent). @H_E_Samuel on Twitter.
Jordana Seal (Telegraph Reporter).
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.5 | Today we discuss the apparent green light from Washington for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine. |
| 0:20.9 | Another drone strike very close to the Kremlin. |
| 0:23.4 | How a Russian commander says Putin won't defeat Ukraine in the near term and should instead |
| 0:28.0 | seek a truce. |
| 0:29.4 | And how another 400 Ukrainian children have been sent to so-called summer camps in Russia |
| 0:34.7 | in recent weeks for patriotic training. |
| 0:37.6 | Praverine takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:46.8 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield |
| 0:52.3 | to win the war. |
| 0:53.3 | Nobody is going to break us where it's strong, where Ukraine is. |
| 1:00.3 | Every weekday we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London Newsroom and our |
| 1:04.6 | teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:10.4 | It's Friday, the 18th of August, one year and 175 days since the full-scale invasion |
| 1:16.2 | began. |
| 1:17.2 | And today I'm joined by our France correspondent Henry Samuel and Telegraph reporter |
| 1:22.0 | Jordana Seal. |
| 1:23.6 | I started with a major military development of the past 24 hours. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm going to start with news as breaking just in the last couple of hours. |
| 1:32.5 | There are evacuations have been reported in Moscow City, Moscow City is the kind of swanky |
| 1:38.3 | business district of the Russian capital. |
| 1:41.8 | There's footage on social media from a couple of hours ago that showed what looked like |
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