Russia accidentally 'shoots down' passenger jet in Azerbaijan & Putin's Christmas Day bombardment
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,038
Today, we look at Russia’s Christmas day attack and the highly suspicious crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, and we interview a former beautician based in Kharkiv, who decided to train as an explosive ordnance specialist after the war began.
Contributors:
Venetia Rainey (Co-host Battle Lines podcast). @venetiarainey on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist & narrative podcast producer). @adeliepjz on X.
With thanks to Olga Ferodova, Lyudmila our translator, and Humanity and Inclusion. @HI_UK on X.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Venetia Rani and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, we look at Russia's Christmas Day attack and the highly suspicious crash of an Azerbaijan airline's plane. |
| 0:14.0 | Plus, an interview with Olga Ferrodova, a former beautician based in Kharkiv, who decided to train as an explosive ordnance specialist |
| 0:21.5 | with charity, humanity inclusion after the war began. |
| 0:25.7 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:34.9 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support |
| 0:41.6 | of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:46.6 | Keeps stand strong. |
| 0:48.1 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:50.1 | We're strong. |
| 0:51.3 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 0:52.9 | It's Friday, December 27th, two years and 313 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 0:59.6 | Merry Christmas, all they're celebrating, and I hope you're having a restful holiday. |
| 1:03.2 | The team are enjoying a much-deserved break, so it'll just be me giving you the most important updates from this week. |
| 1:08.7 | So let's get into them, starting with the latest military |
| 1:11.8 | news. Let's start with Russia's appalling Christmas Day attack on Ukrainian in an energy infrastructure. |
| 1:19.7 | Now, Ukrainians across the country woke up to air sirens on December 25th after Moscow |
| 1:24.2 | launched 184 missiles and drones. |
| 1:30.9 | Keeves' military said it downed most of them, but some still made it through, |
| 1:35.5 | seriously damaging several thermal power plants and causing power cuts across Ukraine. |
| 1:40.4 | In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the attack left half a million people without water, |
| 1:46.5 | electricity or heating, despite bitterly cold temperatures. While in Kiev, residents were forced to shelter in metro stations. But they had a message of defiance for Russia. One woman told Reuters, |
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