Russia evacuates second border region as Ukraine starts ‘digging trenches and building field hospital inside Russia’
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Day 902.
Today, we bring you the latest on Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk, as Russian civilians flee the fighting and the Kremlin’s propagandists struggle to hold the line. We also roundup the latest political and diplomatic news and look back over the last week of break-neck battlefield updates.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @jkjourno on X.
Iona Cleave (Foreign Correspondent). @cleaveiona on X.
Articles:
Latest from Kursk: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/12/russia-evacuates-border-region-as-ukrainian-kursk-invasion/
Joe's weekend read: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/10/ukraine-invasion-russia-sudzha-gas-pipeline-hungary/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:08.0 | Today we bring you the latest on Ukraine's surprise incursion into Kursk |
| 0:12.0 | as Russian civilians flee the fighting and the Kremlin's |
| 0:14.4 | propagandists struggle to hold the line. |
| 0:17.3 | We also round up the latest political and diplomatic news and look back over the past week |
| 0:22.0 | of breakneck battlefield updates. |
| 0:24.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:34.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO |
| 0:42.0 | and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:45.0 | Keep standing strong. |
| 0:47.0 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:48.0 | We're strong. |
| 0:50.0 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:51.0 | It's Monday the 12th of August two years and 75 days since the full-scale |
| 0:55.8 | invasion began and today I'm joined by our associate editor Dominic Nichols |
| 0:59.7 | foreign breaking news reporter Iona Cleave foreign correspondent James Kilner and Foreign Breaking |
| 1:03.7 | Breaking News reporter Iona Cleave, foreign correspondent James Kilner, and Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes. |
| 1:06.7 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, hi David, hi team, how are we all doing? |
| 1:14.0 | Kursk and beyond, which I'll speak about in a moment, |
| 1:17.0 | but firstly the Kursk operation is continuing. |
| 1:20.0 | It's mainly heading north, northwest and south, which I know is all over the place, but essentially that salient that push that Ukraine have achieved over the border into Sudza the town Sudza a few miles away into Russia. |
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