Russia's Surovikin line begins to buckle & analysing shifting Chinese and Russian influence in Central Asia
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Day 561.
Today, we bring you updates from the front lines, analyse the continuing strikes on Ukrainian ports in the region south-west of Odesa, and hear from our Senior Foreign Correspondent Roland Oliphant who’s on the ground in Ukraine.
Watch "Kidnappings and ghost towns on China’s Belt and Road: 10 years of Xi Jinping’s masterplan" here or paste the link into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhNnsvhyPY
Watch Francis' video episode of Defence in Depth on 'Putin's Top 3 Lies: from WWII to modern Ukraine': https://youtu.be/_mdvqJy-zVk?si=Ky8-NpSdhD6bDMhG
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David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Jack Leather (Investigative Reporter & Senior Video News Producer). @jleather on Twitter.
Sophia Yan (China Correspondent). @sophia_yan on Twitter.
Arthur Scott-Geddes (Weekend Foreign Editor). @ascottgeddes on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.
James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @JKJourno on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, we bring you the latest updates from the front lines, discussed news from the EU, |
| 0:19.0 | and to a deep dive into the shifting alliances and influence of Russia and China over the Central Asian States. |
| 0:26.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:34.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. |
| 0:41.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:46.0 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphs London Newsroom |
| 0:51.0 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:57.0 | It's Thursday, the 7th of September, one year and 197 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:03.0 | And today, I'm joined by our Brussels correspondent, Joe Barnes. |
| 1:06.0 | We can, for an editor, Arthur Scott Gettys, China correspondent, Sophia Jan, investigative journalist and film producer, Jack Leather, |
| 1:13.0 | and telegraph correspondent, an editor of the Central Asia and South Caucasus Bulletin. |
| 1:17.0 | James Kilmer. |
| 1:19.0 | I started by asking Joe Barnes to talk us through some updates around the Ukrainian counteroffensive. |
| 1:26.0 | Yesterday, via the Winter Days newspaper, yesterday online, via the economist, |
| 1:31.0 | we covered the comments made by Trent Moore, who is the director of analysis for the US Defence Intelligence Agency. |
| 1:40.0 | He was essentially saying that Ukrainian forces could break through the rest of Russia's defensive lines by the end of the year. |
| 1:48.0 | He said that there was a realistic possibility of driving through the third and final trench system, |
| 1:58.0 | essentially, line of defence in that free-layered Serovkin line. |
| 2:03.0 | And this would give Ukraine essentially an open route towards the sea, where they could drive towards the sea of Az-Off, towards that coast. |
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