New counter-offensive coming in spring, says Kyiv spy chief & Ukraine hits more Russian oil refineries
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Day 704.
Today, we discuss the state of Ukrainian politics after days of speculation on the future of General Valerii Zaluzhny and discuss Putin’s NATO strategy.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander & Telegraph contributor). @HamishDBG on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor for Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Gwendolyn Sasse (Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). @GwendolynSasse on Twitter.
And our guests were Journalist and Political Analyst, Anna Husarska and Director of the charity Assist Ukraine, Olga Shpak.
Links:
Live show tickets: https://extra.telegraph.co.uk/events/ukraine-latest-london-embassy
https://www.assist-ukraine.org/
Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest
Email: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners as you may know and if you don't now you do the Ukraine the latest team is doing a live podcast recording at the American embassy in London on the 15th of February |
| 0:09.7 | Myself, Dom and Francis will be joined by some fascinating guests and free tickets for Telegraph subscribers are available at the link we will share in the show notes. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we bring you the |
| 0:28.2 | latest updates from across Ukraine discuss the state of Ukrainian politics |
| 0:32.0 | after days of speculation on the future of General Valeris Illusini, |
| 0:35.4 | and we analyze Putin's NATO strategy and ask what the West must do to counter it. |
| 0:40.4 | Bravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:49.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools tools the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:54.5 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 0:55.8 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 0:57.8 | We're strong. |
| 0:58.8 | We're Ukrainian. |
| 1:00.8 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's |
| 1:04.4 | London Newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news |
| 1:08.2 | and analysis on the war in Ukraine. It's Wednesday the the 31st of January, one year and 340 days since the full-scale |
| 1:16.0 | invasion began. And today I'm joined by our Associate Editor Dominic Nichols, Director |
| 1:21.8 | of the Center for East European and International Studies in Berlin, and Professor at |
| 1:25.5 | Humboldt University, Gwendal in Sasse, and Telegraph writer and former Tank Commander, |
| 1:30.7 | Hamish-Gordon. I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:38.7 | Well, hi everybody, hi David, hello Guentec, welcome. So the latest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's energy |
| 1:45.3 | infrastructure came in the early hours of this morning. A drone hit an oil refinery in |
| 1:50.6 | St. Petersburg. The prominent Fontanker and Barza telegram channel |
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