Russia steps up shelling in Ukraine after Crimea bridge explosion
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Day 229. Today, we discuss Putin’s ongoing escalation of strikes against Ukraine, following damage to a key bridge linking Crimea and Russia in an explosion on Saturday, October 8th. The team dig into why the Kerch bridge is so important to Putin and what his furious response means.
Contributors:
Claire Hubble (Host). Follow Claire on Twitter @byclairehubble.
Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). Follow Dom on Twitter @DomNicholls.
James Kilner (Correspondent). Follow James on Twitter @jkjourno.
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). Follow Roland on Twitter @RolandOliphant.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Claire Hubble and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we discuss Putin's ongoing escalation of strikes against Ukraine after a key bridge |
| 0:19.2 | linking Crimea and Russia was damaged in an explosion on Saturday, October 8th. |
| 0:24.2 | We dig into why the Kirch bridge is so important to Putin and what his furious response means. |
| 0:31.2 | This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure. |
| 0:40.2 | Ukraine can win, Ukraine must win and Ukraine will win. |
| 0:46.2 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:52.2 | The weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London newsroom |
| 0:56.2 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis from the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.2 | It's Monday October 10th, day 229. |
| 1:06.2 | Today I'm joined by associate editor Dominic Nichols, correspondent and editor James Kilner, |
| 1:12.2 | and senior foreign correspondent Roland Olephant who is on the ground in Ukraine. |
| 1:17.2 | I started off by asking Dom for military updates from over the weekend and this morning. |
| 1:23.2 | Hi, Claire. Hi everybody. Yeah, busy weekend. So Kirch bridge, the bridge linking Crimea to Russia |
| 1:31.2 | was subject to a massive explosion as I think many people have seen on Saturday morning. |
| 1:36.2 | Various possibilities there, a truck bomb, a boat, some sort of special forces raid or rail accident. |
| 1:44.2 | I've got the time here and I think the time will come to look into more depth about what actually happened |
| 1:50.2 | because we simply don't know at the moment. I think most analysts, most sensible analysts are saying it's a truck bomb, |
| 1:59.2 | but we will need to come back to that. But it almost doesn't matter because what we do know that happened is that something got through. |
| 2:08.2 | Yet again, a bit like Crimea, their attacks on Crimea a few weeks ago, something got through there. |
| 2:14.2 | This massive strategic prize, this target that everyone's been talking about for a very long time, |
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