Russia retreats in Kherson, mobilisation chaos and the problem with Elon Musk's 'peace plan'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Russia retreats in Kherson, mobilisation chaos and the problem with Elon Musk's 'peace plan'
Day 223
Today, we discuss the latest updates from the warzone as the Ukrainian army pushes Russian troops back in Kherson - we also analyse European energy security as Autumn descends across the continent and discuss some of the revealing reactions to tweets by Tesla founder Elon Musk.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). Follow Francis on Twitter @FrancisDearnley.
Joe Barnes (Brussels correspondent).
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.6 | Today we discuss the latest updates from the war zone as the Ukrainian army pushes Russian |
| 0:19.4 | troops back in her zone. |
| 0:21.4 | We also analyse European energy security as autumn descends across the continent and |
| 0:26.0 | discuss some of the revealing reactions to tweets by Tesla founder Elon Musk. |
| 0:33.0 | We are facing a very serious crisis in energy caused by Putin's war in Ukraine. |
| 0:45.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians. |
| 0:50.0 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphsland and |
| 0:54.0 | our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war |
| 0:59.0 | in Ukraine. It's Tuesday, the 4th of October, day 223. |
| 1:04.0 | And today I'm joined by assistant comment editor Frances Dernley and the Telegraphs Brussels |
| 1:09.2 | correspondent Joe Barnes. I started by asking Joe for the latest updates from the battlefront. |
| 1:16.0 | Sure, good afternoon folks. And I will try and fill in for Dom. |
| 1:20.0 | Nichols' normal military updates as best as I can. |
| 1:24.0 | So what we're seeing at the moment and there's lots and lots of chatter whether it be Ukrainian |
| 1:29.0 | sources or pro-Russian sources on Telegraph, on Twitter. |
| 1:33.0 | Basically what is the Russian defensive line on the southern front towards her son is |
| 1:39.0 | collapsing at an incredible rate of of knots. |
| 1:42.0 | And say what we've heard over night from President Zelensky is that Ukrainian forces have |
| 1:48.0 | broken through Russia's defense in the south of the country and are kind of expanding their |
| 1:52.0 | rapid offensive elsewhere. So the Ukrainians, as per usual, aren't providing a lot of |
| 1:58.0 | information if any on this because they want to maintain some sort of operational |
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