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Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K 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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