'Historic moment' as Biden permits US weapons to be fired on Russian soil & Putin's plan to end Western democracy
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 821.
Today, we bring you updates from across Ukraine, discuss the potential death of Western democracy and we speak about the challenges and issues facing women in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.
Francis Dearnley(Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to ACE FD, Historian Dr Thomas Clausen and Karyn Gershon - Project Kesher CEO, and Vlada Nedak - CEO of Project Kesher Ukraine and the Women's Opportunity Fund of Ukraine.
To learn more about "Project Kesher" and the Charitable Foundation "Women's Opportunity Fund", you can visit:
http://www.projectkesher.org.ua/
'What if Putin Wins?' Essay Series & Articles Referenced:
For the next seven days The Telegraph is running a series of exclusive essays from prominent international commentators imagining the consequences if Russia were successful in its war. The first essays can be found below:
'Europe's fascist future awaits' (Dr Thomas Clausen in The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/30/europes-fascist-future-awaits-if-putin-wins-in-ukraine/
'Putin’s plot to destroy Nato is reaching its devastating climax' (Aliona Hlivco in The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/29/putin-plot-to-destroy-nato-reaching-its-climax/
'If Putin wins, expect the worst genocide since the Holocaust' (Karolina Hird in The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/31/europe-see-the-worst-genocide-since-holocaust/
Other articles referenced today are as follows:
'Volodymyr Zelensky: Russian troops are laughing at and "hunting" Ukrainians' (The Guardian)
‘He couldn’t wait to join’: thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/thousands-of-russian-youth-die-in-ukraine-war
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| 0:25.7 | disease together. Visit gSK.com to learn more. I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we bring you updates from across Ukraine, |
| 0:42.1 | discuss the potential death of Western democracy, |
| 0:45.0 | and we speak about the challenges and issues facing women in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. |
| 0:51.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:00.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 1:04.9 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 1:06.6 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 1:08.6 | We're strong. |
| 1:09.9 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:12.3 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London Newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:22.0 | It's Friday the 31st of May, two years in Ukraine. It's Friday 31st of May, two years and 98 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:27.0 | And today I am joined by our assistant comment editor Francis Sternly. |
| 1:30.0 | Historian Dr Thomas Klausen, Project Keshasha, CEO Karen Gershren, and CEO of Project |
| 1:36.1 | Kasha Ukraine and the Women's Opportunity Fund of Ukraine, Blada Nedak. |
| 1:40.7 | I started by summarizing the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:45.0 | Let's start in Russia in the Krasnodar region, that's the landmass east of the Sea of Azov and Crimea, |
| 1:51.0 | where the Ukrainian military have claimed to hit an oil terminal at the Russian |
| 1:54.4 | port of Kavkaz. The military reported explosions at the site and is working to verify the |
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