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I'm Claire Hubble, and this is Ukraine, the latest.

Today, a France breaks away from the West's policy of nuclear ambiguity in response to Putin's threats.

We discuss the latest developments in Ukraine and beyond.

Thus, you'll hear an interview with Admiral Sir Tony Radikin, Chief of the Defence Star for the UK.

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.

Every week day after noon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London newsroom

and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine.

It's Friday, 14 October, day 233, and today I'm joined by senior reporter Roland Olephant on the ground in Ukraine

and Hamish de Breton Gordon, who has been covering nuclear tensions between Russia and the West for the Telegraph.

I started off by asking Roland for military developments at the last 24 hours.

What's going on on the battlefield? If we kind of look at the map, look at the south.

Hurts on quite interesting. Vladimir Saldo, who is the kind of Russian-installed official who runs that place, the occupation.

Authority there has appealed to Moscow for an evacuation of civilians, indicating that the Russians are very worried about their position there.

Interestingly, the FT had a comment last night from some Western officials saying they think that actually the Ukrainians might be able to take that place within a week, which is perhaps quicker than we expected.

This sense that the Ukrainian, that long-term pressure on Hurts on his really built up in the Russians might finally be about to crack,

even that they finally kind of listened to military reality.

And the fact that it's incredibly difficult to maintain, and costly to maintain this bridgehead on the other side of the Dniepero, perhaps that has finally prevailed over the political imperative and they're preparing to pull back.

So signs of massive Russian pressure there. Ukrainian saying they're also pushing forward still in the Caucasian region.

They're still pushing forward towards Sviadavir, that's that key town, that next key town over in Luhansk.

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