Russia suffers 'largest drone strike of the war' while Kyiv defends against massive bombardment
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Day 552. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines, analyse the impact of drone strikes on Russia and ask why the British Foreign Secretary is heading to China.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.
Read Russia hit by largest drone attack of the war as military assets targeted, by Nataliya Vasilyeva: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/30/ukraine-largest-drone-attack-russia-military-assets-hit/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, we bring you the latest news from the front lines, |
| 0:19.0 | analyze the impact of drone strikes on Russia, |
| 0:21.0 | and ask why the British foreign secretary is heading to China. |
| 0:26.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:35.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. |
| 0:42.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:48.0 | Every week day after noon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Teluguast under Newsroom, |
| 0:52.0 | and our team is reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.0 | It's Wednesday, the 30th of August, one year and 187 days since the full-scale invasion began, |
| 1:04.0 | and today I'm joined by our associate editor, Dom Nichols, assistant comment editor, Francister Stanley, |
| 1:09.0 | and Russia correspondent Natalia Vasilyevna. |
| 1:13.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:19.0 | David, hi, everybody. Let's start inside Russia and also in Crimea. |
| 1:25.0 | In what we think is the biggest Ukrainian drone attack since the war started, |
| 1:32.0 | certainly in terms of geographic scope and impact, |
| 1:35.0 | six regions of Russia and Crimea, Russian positions in occupied Crimea were hit last night. |
| 1:43.0 | We think quite a sizable wave of drone strike hit the Russian military air base in Peskov region, |
| 1:54.0 | so we're about 20 Ks from the border with Estonia, right up in the northwest of Russia here. |
| 1:59.0 | A number of military aircraft were set ablaze. Russian officials said for IL-76, |
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