Moscow's moon mission ends in disaster, interview with NASA astronaut & podcast team sanctioned by Russia
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Day 543.
Today, we bring you the latest updates from the battlefront, analyse the vital decision over the weekend to send fighter planes to Ukraine, and interview Former NASA Astronaut and test fighter pilot, Terry Virts. He speaks about his experience working with Russian cosmonauts, the moment he saw the 2014 war break out from space, and the West’s strategic thinking regarding Ukraine. Plus, we update listeners on our plans for the US trip, and how the podcast team has been sanctioned by the Kremlin.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
With thanks to Terry Virts. @AstroTerry on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, we bring you the latest updates from the battlefront. |
| 0:18.0 | Analyze the decision over the weekend to send fighter planes to Ukraine, |
| 0:22.0 | and we interview former NASA astronaut and test fighter pilot Terry Vertz. |
| 0:26.0 | Terry speaks about his experience working alongside Russian cosmonauts, |
| 0:30.0 | describes the moment he saw the 2014 war from space, |
| 0:33.0 | and analyzes the West's strategic thinking regarding Ukraine. |
| 0:37.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:46.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. |
| 0:53.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:58.0 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telagraphs London newsroom |
| 1:03.0 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:09.0 | It's Monday, the 21st of August, one year and 178 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:15.0 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor Dominic Nichols, assistant comment editor francisternly, |
| 1:20.0 | and our guest is former NASA astronaut Terry Vertz. |
| 1:24.0 | I started by asking Don, for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, hi, David. Welcome back. We managed to keep the place intact without you, although there was a slight flood. |
| 1:35.0 | But I'll do the monumental, fairly monumental events, I think, over the weekend a bit later. |
| 1:40.0 | But I'll start with the news from today. So dozens of flights were redirected over Moscow this morning |
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