Russian oil depot set ablaze by Ukrainian drone attack & Putin’s petrodollars dry up as Arab-Russian cartel loses its grip
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Day 692.
Today, we bring you latest updates from across Ukraine, discuss broader strategic questions for the year to come for Russia, the West and Ukraine, and analyse the news that Russia’s oil and gas revenues have plummeted by 37pc in just one year.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @Francis Dearnley on Twitter.
Jonathan Leake (Energy Editor). @Jonathan__Leake on Twitter.
Ruth Deyermond (Senior Lecturer in Post-Soviet Security at Kings College London). @ruth_deyermond on Twitter.
Neil Hauer's article on Ukraine's 'War of Narratives':
https://warontherocks.com/2024/01/ukraines-war-of-narratives
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we bring you the |
| 0:09.2 | latest updates from across Ukraine, discuss broader strategic questions for the year to come, and analyze the news |
| 0:15.4 | that Russia's oil and gas revenues have plummeted by 37% in just one year. |
| 0:20.6 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:30.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools tools the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:34.7 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 0:36.4 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 0:38.4 | We're strong. |
| 0:39.6 | We're Ukrainians. on the war in Ukraine. It's Friday, the 19th of January, one year and 329 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 0:58.0 | And today I'm joined by Associate Editor Dominic Nichols, Assistant Comment Editor Francis Durnley, |
| 1:03.6 | Energy Editor Jonathan Leake, and our guest is Senior Lecturer in post-Soviet |
| 1:07.9 | security at King's College London, Ruth Dayamond. |
| 1:11.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:16.5 | Well, hi David, hi everybody, so let's start just inside Russia a Ukrainian drone strike has |
| 1:26.3 | satellite a very large oil depot in Russia's Briansk region. This is |
| 1:30.5 | coming from well initially coming from the local governor, although it's now all over the media, and I think you can probably see it from space as well. |
| 1:37.0 | So Brianskolblast is that bit of Russia that borders Ukraine and Belarus about 250 K's southwest of Moscow. |
| 1:44.8 | It's down in that sort of corner that wedges into the bit between Belarus and Ukraine. |
| 1:50.0 | So Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, said more than a dozen fire engines had rushed to extinguish the blaze and he said, |
| 1:57.0 | well, early reports there were no casualties. |
| 1:59.0 | However, unverified footage all over social media and you'll see it on our website as well. |
| 2:04.5 | Shows very thick black smoke pouring into the sky as this huge fire rages alongside what |
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