Kyiv conducts drone attacks on Moscow
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Moscow’s mayor has called Kyiv’s overnight assault “one of the largest ever” drone attacks on the Russian capital. It comes as Ukraine continues its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Also, a Turkish organization representing the döner industry has applied to the EU to certify döner kebab as a traditional specialty, but German döner makers have vetoed the move, saying it could increase the price. And, Israel wants control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, but Hamas says it will only agree to a deal if all Israeli troops leave the Gaza Strip. Plus, cellist Yo-Yo Ma bridges the Us-China divide.
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| 0:00.0 | Two weeks after pushing into Kursk, Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow. |
| 0:11.0 | Some of these attacks have been political and they've been aimed to show Russia that Russians |
| 0:15.3 | are not invulnerable and have been intended to damage Russian prestige and the prestige of Russian |
| 0:19.9 | leaders. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:21.9 | And I'm Marco Worman, today on the show the risks and payoffs of Ukraine taking the war inside Russia |
| 0:26.7 | Also, hoothe militias continue to fire on ships in the Red Sea and we turn our sights to a much smaller battle between Turkey and Germany. |
| 0:37.0 | I love it. It's just like home all in one little pita pocket. That's amazing. |
| 0:42.0 | Over donor kebab. |
| 0:43.6 | Plus overseas students are back at work on the Jersey shore. |
| 0:47.1 | An offer popped from Playland, and I said, oh, it's an amusement park. |
| 0:51.0 | It would be pretty cool to work on one. |
| 0:53.0 | All that am more today, here on the world. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Marco Werman. It's good to have you with us on this Wednesday. |
| 1:03.6 | For many Russians, the war in Ukraine has seemed far away and not top of mind. |
| 1:07.8 | The Ukrainian military may be changing that perception. |
| 1:11.2 | In recent weeks, Ukraine has been pressing ahead with a major incursion into Russia's |
| 1:15.5 | Kursk region. And last night the Ukrainian army targeted Moscow itself in what the mayor |
| 1:21.2 | called one of the largest ever drone attacks on the capital. |
| 1:25.0 | Russia's Ministry of Defense said overnight that its forces shot down 45 Ukrainian drones in total including 11 targeting the |
| 1:36.1 | capital city. Michael Kaufman is at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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