Russia desperately searches for allies as Vladimir Putin & Xi Jinping meet for first time since the invasion
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Day 204.
Today, we analyse a leaked video of what appears to be the Wagner group recruiting convicts in a Russian penal colony. Plus, we’re on the ground in Samarkand, Uzbekistan ahead of the first meeting because Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping since before the Invasion of Ukraine.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22.
Dom Nicholls (Defence & Security Editor). Follow Dom on Twitter @DomNicholls.
Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). Follow Nataliya on Twitter @Nat_Vasilyeva.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.2 | Today we discuss the latest updates from Ukraine, analyze a leaked video of what appears to |
| 0:20.4 | be the Wagner group recruiting convicts in a Russian penal colony. |
| 0:24.0 | And we're on the ground in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, ahead of the first meeting between Russian |
| 0:27.8 | President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, since before the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:34.1 | We are facing a very serious crisis in energy caused by Putin's war in Ukraine. |
| 0:45.6 | Nobody is going to break us, we're strong, we're Ukrainians. |
| 0:50.8 | Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading reporters from the Telegraph's London |
| 0:54.0 | Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis |
| 0:58.8 | on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.1 | It's Thursday, the 15th of September, day 204, and today I'm joined by Associate Editor |
| 1:07.5 | Dominate Nichols, and I'll rush a correspondent, Natalia Vasilyevna, calling in from Uzbekistan, |
| 1:13.2 | where she's reporting on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's 2022 summit in Samarkand. |
| 1:18.3 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:23.4 | We still don't have an accurate picture of quite what consolidation is happening in the north, |
| 1:30.9 | although we do know that Ukraine is pushing in other military units and other elements of state authority, |
| 1:38.7 | police, and what have you to hold on to the gains that they made over the last weekend. |
| 1:45.0 | Elsewhere, down sort of more into the south in Nira, Kazon, the town could be re, |
| 1:52.0 | and I apologize for my mispronunciation, which is north of Kazon, maybe 100km north of Kazon, |
| 2:00.9 | President Vladimir Zelensky's hometown. |
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