Military base set ablaze by Ukraine filled with ‘glide bombs’ & team memories of Bosnia
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Day 912.
Today, we assess the fast-moving situation on the frontlines in both Ukraine and Russia, reflect on what may prove to be an important meeting in Kyiv tomorrow, and hear memories and confessions from the team of the war in Bosnia.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Hamish de Bretton Gordon (Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.
Content Referenced:
Putin is on the ropes – it’s time to launch Storm Shadow missiles (Hamish in The Telegraph):
Storm Shadow should be unshackled to help Ukraine in Kursk (Hamish in Forces News:
Russia Hunts Down Deserters to Backfill Its Massive War Losses (Wall Street Journal):
‘I never worked for the Russians’ - punished by Kyiv for being a collaborator (BBC):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0473y0p0ego
Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Nine-Lives/Aimen-Dean/9781786073297
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Frances Turnley and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we assess the fast moving situation on the front lines in both Ukraine and Russia. |
| 0:12.0 | Reflect on what may prove to be an important meeting in Kyiv tomorrow |
| 0:16.0 | and hear memories and confessions from the team of the war in Bosnia. |
| 0:20.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:30.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our |
| 0:35.6 | unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:40.8 | Keep standing strong. Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:44.0 | We're strong. |
| 0:46.0 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:48.0 | It's Thursday, the 22nd of August, two years and 185 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 0:55.0 | And today I'm joined by our Associate Editor of Defence, Dominic Nichols, and former Tank |
| 1:00.0 | Commander and Chemical Weapons Expert, Hamish de Breton Gordon. |
| 1:04.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest updates from the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:09.2 | Let's start, as we have done for the last couple of weeks inside Russia |
| 1:15.7 | Kursk or blast Ukrainian offensive action there still continuing marginal |
| 1:20.6 | advances they are they are small but that's what we've been reporting about Russia in the east, and that's still notable, so I think this one is as well. |
| 1:30.0 | Speaking this morning from the border area in neighbouring Sumi Oblast, President Zelensky on a visit there, |
| 1:36.4 | said Ukraine had captured another Russian settlement in Kursk Oblast, |
| 1:40.8 | as well as taking more Russian prisoners of war. Now during his visit |
| 1:44.9 | President Zelensky got reports from Commander-in-Chief Alexander Sersky, General |
| 1:49.6 | Serbsky, and also the Sumi Oblast governor Vladimir Archuk about the situation both in the |
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