'Is a bad peace more dangerous than a difficult war for Ukraine?' - Q&A Special with the Ukraine: The Latest Team
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today is a bank holiday in the UK, so the Ukraine: The Latest team have produced a special Q&A episode answering questions from Telegraph subscribers. Thank you to all our listeners for getting in touch with your questions. Do let us know what you make of our responses.
Correction: The date is of course the 6th May, not the 2nd May as David says in the introduction.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.
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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 David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today is a bank holiday in the United Kingdom, so our episode is a little different. |
| 0:53.2 | A few weeks ago we asked you, how our listeners, to send us questions on the war. |
| 0:57.4 | Thank you so much to everyone who got in touch. |
| 0:59.8 | I sat down with Dom and Francis to go through them. Here's our conversation. |
| 1:04.0 | Raverie takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:13.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, |
| 1:16.0 | the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 1:18.0 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 1:20.0 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 1:22.0 | We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:26.4 | It's Monday, the 2nd of May. Two years and 73 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:31.2 | And today I'm joined by our associate editor Dominicles, an assistant |
| 1:34.7 | comment editor Frances Sternley. |
| 1:37.0 | Don, the first question to you from Sferralir and I do apologize if I've pronounced that incorrectly is this. |
| 1:47.0 | How will the F-16s be best utilized in the battle against Russia when they will finally be deployed. |
| 1:52.6 | Dom Nichols. |
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