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Ukraine: The Latest

Has Russia's diversion failed?

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Documentary, History, Jets, News, Tanks, Russians, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War, Vladimir Putin, Guns, Ukraine, Army, Daily News, Russia-ukraine Conflict, Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Day 810.

Today, we discuss the latest from the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia, take a brief look at the implications of the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and talk to Foreign Correspondent Colin Freeman about his recent reporting tour in the Donbas. 


Contributors:

Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

RolandOliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant onX.

Colin Freeman (Foreign Correspondent). @ColinFreeman on X.


Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest

Email: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Orlando Bird, the Telegraph Letters Editor.

0:05.0

Everyone knows that you, our readers and listeners are the sharpest and wittiest in the world.

0:10.0

And now you can join me every Friday for my newsletter, letters to the editor, where

0:15.3

I survey the week's best contributions on the subjects you care about most.

0:20.2

Will the government make it to the end of the month? Would a return to British Rail really be so bad?

0:25.0

And most importantly, what's the correct way to boil an egg?

0:29.0

Sign up and join the debate at telegraph.co. UK forward slash letters. I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest.

0:47.0

Today we discuss the latest from the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia.

0:51.0

Take a brief look at the implications of the death of Iranian President Ibrahim Racy,

0:55.8

and talk to Colin Freeman about his recent reporting tour in the Donbass.

1:00.5

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

1:09.0

If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job.

1:14.4

Slava Ukrainian.

1:16.1

Nobody is going to break us.

1:18.1

We are strong.

1:19.4

We are Ukrainians.

1:21.6

Every weekday 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.

1:31.0

It's Monday, the 20th of May, two years and 87 days since the full scale

1:36.3

invasion began. Today I'm joined by senior foreign correspondent Roland

1:40.6

Olafant and foreign reporter Colin Freeman. I started with the

1:45.0

latest news from Ukraine. So the Ukrainian general staff have said Russian forces

1:50.5

conducted an unsuccessful mechanized assault on Friday.

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