I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest.

Today, as key phrases for more Russian strikes and infrastructure, we analyse the latest

remarks on the invasion from Pope Francis and discuss the extraordinary story of the

Zambian students who was killed on the front lines in Ukraine, fighting for Russia.

I also speak to Arisealut Saifich, head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House in London.

We talk about NATO and the war, Russia's proxy use of NGOs and contemporary Ukrainian politics.

Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets the world over.

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 Telegraphs London

Newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis

on the war in Ukraine. It's Tuesday, 29th November, day 279.

And today, I'm joined by our assistant comment editor Francis Stanley, our Russia correspondent

Natalya Vasilyevna, and our senior foreign correspondent, Rowland Olevans.

I started by asking Francis for the latest news from Ukraine.

Well, thanks, David, and good afternoon, everyone. A very dramatic morning across Ukraine,

as we speak, error-raid alerts have been issued across the whole of the country following

reports from Ukrainian officials that Russia are preparing a new wave of missile and drone

strikes. Keith Mayer, Vitaly Klitschko, has urged residents to stockpile on food in anticipation

of the worst-case scenario, talking about food, water, warm clothes, and power banks

being a priority. And this comes also off the back of President Zelensky yesterday, saying

that the upcoming week can be as hard as the previous one. Of course, we spoke at length

last week about just quite how severe things were in many of the cities in Ukraine and in rural

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