Russia moves 'thousands of troops' from Ukraine to defend Kursk
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Day 906.
Today, we take a deep dive into the battlefield tactics being employed in the Kursk operation.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Hamish de-Bretton Gordon (Former Tank Commander and Chemical/Bio Weapons Expert). @HamishDBG on X.
Michael Bohnert (Engineer at Rand Corporation). @mbohnert on X.
Items referenced:
Dom's Defence in Depth Episode on Kursk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc_TudS0nko
Francis's article on Kursk:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/16/putin-is-crippled-by-the-wests-preemptive-attack-on-russia/
Hamish's article for The Telegraph on Putin's nuclear bluffing:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/15/ukraine-kursk-invasion-nuclear-putin-escalation-bluff/
Ukraine exports over 64 million tons of cargo through Black Sea corridor in a year (Kyiv Independent)
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| 0:45.0 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:50.0 | Today we take a deep dive into the battlefield tactics being employed by Ukraine in the Kursk operation. |
| 0:57.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:05.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 1:17.0 | Keep stand strong. |
| 1:19.0 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:20.0 | We're strong. |
| 1:22.0 | We're Ukrainian. |
| 1:24.0 | It's Friday, the 16th of August, two years and 179 days since the full-scale |
| 1:30.0 | scale invasion began. |
| 1:31.0 | Today I'm joined by assistant common editor |
| 1:33.7 | Francis Dernley, former tank commander and chemical and biological weapons |
| 1:37.8 | expert Hamish to Bretton Gordon and from Washington DC Rand Corporation researcher Michael Bonnet. |
| 1:45.0 | I started with the latest news from Ukraine and Russia. |
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