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Ukraine: The Latest

Russia’s ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills & Ukraine’s theory of victory

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Documentary, History, Jets, News, Tanks, Russians, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War, Vladimir Putin, Guns, Ukraine, Army, Daily News, Russia-ukraine Conflict, Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Day 812.

Today, further to the fast-evolving situation on the front lines, we reflect on how Ukraine might win the war, the ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills being carried out by Moscow, and look deeper on the political fault-lines of Central and Eastern Europe.


Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.

Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander and Chemical Weapons Expert). @HamishDBG on X.

Dalibor Rohac (Senior Fellow AEI) @DaliborRohac on X.


'The villages near Kharkiv were recovering. Fleeing again, their people feel betrayed by the west – and I understand why' (Ada Wordsworth in The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/kharkiv-betrayed-west-ukraine-russia-war


'A Theory of Victory for Ukraine' (Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/theory-victory-ukraine


Putin targets German speakers in Russia in search for cannon fodder (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/19/putin-targets-germans-living-in-russia-in-search-for-troops/


'The EU is failing Georgia, just as it failed Ukraine' (Dalibor Rohac in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/21/the-eu-is-failing-georgia-just-as-it-failed-ukraine/


'Exclusive: Pentagon's Russian Oil Red Line Questioned' (Newsweek)

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-russia-ukraine-drone-attacks-oil-hubs-red-line-1902516



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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Orlando Bird, the Telegraph Letters Editor.

0:05.0

Everyone knows that you, our readers and listeners are the sharpest and wittiest in the world.

0:10.0

And now you can join me every Friday for my newsletter, letters to the editor, where

0:15.3

I survey the week's best contributions on the subjects you care about most.

0:20.2

Will the government make it to the end of the month? Would a return to British Rail really be so bad?

0:25.0

And most importantly, what's the correct way to boil an egg?

0:29.0

Sign up and join the debate at telegraph.co. UK forward slash letters. I'm Frances Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest.

0:50.0

Today, further to the fast evolving situation on the front lines, we reflect on how Ukraine might win the war,

0:56.4

the theatrical nuclear weapons drills being carried out by Moscow,

1:00.3

and look deeper on the political fault lines of Central and Eastern Europe.

1:05.0

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

1:14.0

If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job.

1:19.0

Slava Ukrainian.

1:21.0

Nobody is one of the breakers. We're us. We are strong. Where you trainiers.

1:27.0

Every weekday we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London Newsroom

1:31.0

and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news

1:34.9

and analysis on the war in Ukraine.

1:38.5

It's Wednesday, the 22nd of May, two years and 89 days since the full-scale invasion began.

1:45.9

And today I'm joined by the Telegraph Berlin correspondent James Rothwell, former tank

1:50.6

commander and chemical weapons expert Hamish de Breton Gordon,

1:53.6

and Dalibor Roach, Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.

1:58.0

I started, however, by summing up the latest developments on the front lines.

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