I'm Claire Hubble, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we discuss Moscow's threat

at World War III if Ukraine is admitted to NATO and delve into the Ramstein Group's

pledge to boost Ukraine's missile defence.

This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.

Ukraine can win, Ukraine must win, and Ukraine will win.

Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

It's Thursday, 13 October, day 232, and today, I'm joined by Associate Editor Dominic Nichols,

and later on, Senior Reporter Roland Olephant. I started off by asking Don for military developments

over the past 24 hours.

Hi, Claire. Hi, everybody. It's been, it's continued to be busy across the theatre of Ukraine.

Russia, the strikes of a continued and the Kiev region, in Nikolayev to the south and Zaporizhia,

to the south, lost a civilian life again.

They've also claimed, Russia claims they've taken two villages south of the city of Bakhmut in the Donbass.

This is a city right in the centre that the Wagner Group have been attacking for quite some weeks now,

making small gains, back to remember a couple of months ago, we were talking about it

for one kilometre a week type thing. It seems to be the rate of advance that they are managing.

Roland joined us yesterday and spoke from the area and said that it's very much weather dependent there.

So on clear days, drones can go up, and then there's a lot of artillery jewels.

On less good days as was yesterday, then it was much quieter,

but it does seem to be still a very active front there in the Donbass.

Elsewhere, down in the south and Hezon region, the message stayed from the UK defence intelligence

just saying that after the, so let me go back a step.

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