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Ukraine: The Latest

Putin 'grateful' for Xi's help to end the war & assassination attempt on 'pro-Kremlin' Slovak PM

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Documentary, History, Jets, News, Tanks, Russians, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War, Vladimir Putin, Guns, Ukraine, Army, Daily News, Russia-ukraine Conflict, Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Day 806.

Today, we discuss the latest from the Kharkiv battlefield, Putin’s visit to China, and whether the assassination attempt on Robert Fico could be a Sarajevo-1949 moment. Plus, later, we hear a set of recordings from David Knowles on the ground in Ukraine. 


Contributors:


Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.

James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent)@JamesERothwell on X.

David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles on X.


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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Orlando Bird, the Telegraph Letters Editor.

0:05.0

Everyone knows that you, our readers and listeners are the sharpest and wittiest in the world.

0:10.0

And now you can join me every Friday for my newsletter, letters to the editor, where

0:15.3

I survey the week's best contributions on the subjects you care about most.

0:20.2

Will the government make it to the end of the month? Would a return to British Rail really be so bad?

0:25.0

And most importantly, what's the correct way to boil an egg?

0:29.0

Sign up and join the debate at telegraph.co. UK forward slash letters.

0:37.0

I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. Today in a packed episode we discuss

0:48.8

the latest from the Harkey battlefield, Putin's visit to China, the assassination attempt on Robert Fizzo, why Germany's

0:56.2

Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is on resignation watch, and, later, we hear a set of

1:01.9

recordings from David Knowles on the ground in Ukraine.

1:05.0

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

1:14.0

If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job.

1:19.0

Slava Ukrainian.

1:21.0

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

1:25.0

Every weekday we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London newsroom

1:30.0

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

1:35.6

It's Thursday the 16th of May, two years and 83 days since the full scale invasion began.

1:41.7

Today I'm joined by assistant comment editor Francis Dernley,

1:45.4

Germany correspondent James Rothwell,

1:47.6

and from somewhere near Lviv, David Knowles.

1:50.7

I started with the latest news from Ukraine.

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