Russian generals 'sacrificing own men' in eastern assault on Avdiivka & interview first Ukrainian-born Congresswoman
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Day 608.
Today, we bring you the latest updates from the battlefield, bring you the news from the EU Council meeting today in Brussels and Francis Dearnley interviews Congresswoman Victoria Spartz about being the the first Ukrainian-born female member of Congress and the first member born in a former Soviet Republic.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.
With thanks to Congresswoman Victoria Spartz. @RepSpartz on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we bring you the latest updates |
| 0:17.4 | from the battlefront. Discuss the news from the EU Council meeting today in Brussels |
| 0:22.1 | and Francis Dernley interviews Congresswoman Victoria Spouts about perceptions of the |
| 0:26.1 | war inside the Republican Party. |
| 0:28.1 | Pravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:37.1 | If we give President Zelensky the tools the Ukrainians will finish the job. Slava Ukraine! |
| 0:43.1 | We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:50.1 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London newsroom |
| 0:54.1 | and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.1 | It's Thursday the 26th of October, one year and 244 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:07.1 | Joining me today are Associate Editor Dominic Nichols, Assistant Comment Editor Francis Dernley |
| 1:12.1 | and Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes who's calling in live from the EU Council meeting in Brussels. |
| 1:18.1 | I started by asking Don for the latest news from the battlefront. |
| 1:24.1 | Hi David. Hi everybody. |
| 1:26.1 | So let's start in the east and Russian generals are said to be throwing their troops forward |
| 1:30.1 | in their assault on Avdivka despite suffering heavy losses. This is from Ukrainian officials. |
| 1:35.1 | So Alexander Stupin, spokesperson for Ukraine Southern Group of forces, said the enemy is trying to move forward |
| 1:41.1 | and then we beat them back. |
| 1:43.1 | He estimated Russian losses in the last six days. |
| 1:46.1 | There's 2,500 dead wounded in the area. Obviously we didn't give a figure |
| 1:51.1 | but we've seen some pretty high numbers for equipment losses as well, armoured vehicles, tanks and so on. |
| 1:56.1 | He said this is quite significant even for Russia bearing in mind that they do not look after their own men. |
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