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Ukraine: The Latest

Kyiv destroys more bridges in Kursk & launches largest drone attack on Moscow of the war

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

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Day 911.

Today, as Ukraine launches the largest drone attack on Moscow of the war, we assess the latest battlefield developments as Kyiv seeks to take advantage of its incursion into Russia. Plus, we look deeper at the crisis in the Donbas, and reflect on how soldiers’ equipment has evolved over the course of the conflict.


Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

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

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

Anne Robles (Ukraine Front Line Board Member).


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0:00.0

I'm Frances Dernley and this is Ukraine the latest.

0:07.0

Today as Ukraine launches the largest drone attack on Moscow of the war,

0:12.0

we assess the latest battlefield developments as Kyiv seeks to take advantage of its incursion into Russia.

0:19.0

Plus we look deeper at the crisis in Dombas and reflect on how soldiers equipment has evolved over the course of the conflict.

0:26.8

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

0:36.0

The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine.

0:47.0

Keep standing strong. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're

0:52.3

Ukrainian. It's when We're strong. Ukraine is.

0:54.7

It's Wednesday the 21st of August.

0:58.0

Two years and 184 days since the full-scale invasion began. And today I'm joined by our Associate

1:04.8

Editor of Defence Dominic Nichols, Senior Foreign Correspondent Roland

1:08.2

elephant, and dialing in from Colorado and Robles of the NGO Ukraine Front Line, whose organization delivers resources

1:15.8

to soldiers on the front lines.

1:17.8

We started, however, with the latest updates from the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia. Over to Dom.

1:25.0

Well, hi Frances, high team. So straight into Kursk.

1:30.0

Additional advances there been made by Ukrainian forces, more reporting of Ukrainian

1:35.2

first-person-view drones targeting Russian engineering and logistic elements trying to build

1:40.9

pontoon bridges over the river same.. That's after the three main bridges linking

1:46.3

that pocket of land to the west of Sudza to the rest of Kursk Oblast were destroyed over the weekend. Now Russian mill bloggers are saying

1:54.6

Ukrainian forces seized Fijnevka that's about five six seven-ish K's southwest

2:00.2

to Hornavo now if correct that would mean that Ukraine has closed that gap

2:05.1

up to the river. Remember this pocket of land it's roughly box-shaped, the

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