Russian troops attack Pokrovsk ‘almost 60 times in one day’ as advance continues towards key Donbas town
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Day 920
Today, we analyse the reasons behind Russia’s rapid advance in the Donbas as more villages fall and Russian troops edge closer to the strategic town of Pokrovsk, and bring you the latest updates from Kursk. Plus, David speaks to academic Jaroslava Barbieri about her new paper looking at Ukraine’s mobilisation drive.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.
Hamish de Bretton Gordon (Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.
And with thanks to Jaroslava Barbieri. @jarabarbieri on X.
Content Referenced:
PIJL researched Ukrainians’ concerns and hopes about military service: https://www.journlab.online/en/post/pijl-researched-ukrainians-concerns-and-hopes-about-military-service
Francis Farrell question to Zelensky: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_L7Y9Ro5Rr/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we analyze the reasons behind Russia's rapid advance in the Dombas as more villages fall and Russian troops |
| 0:15.1 | edge closer to the strategic town of Bocrovsk. |
| 0:18.4 | We also bring you the latest updates from Kursk and I speak to academic Yaroslav Babieri about her new paper looking at Ukraine's |
| 0:25.4 | mobilization drive. |
| 0:27.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:37.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defence to make clear our unshakable support of native and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:48.0 | Keep stand strong. |
| 0:50.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Friday, the 1st of August, two years and 193 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:02.0 | Today, I'm joined by our associate editor |
| 1:04.3 | Dominicles, senior foreign correspondent Roland Oliphant, telegraph writer and |
| 1:08.9 | former tank commander Hamish-Jabratton Gordon and our guest is researcher Yarislava Barbieri. |
| 1:15.4 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi David, hello team let's start inside Ukraine and Russia launched 18 |
| 1:25.7 | Shaheed drones and one Escanda M ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight. This |
| 1:31.2 | comes from Kyiv's Air Force speaking this morning. |
| 1:34.0 | They say 12 of the 18 drones were shot down and they were fired from the Russian cities of |
| 1:39.7 | Primorskur Task. That's right on the on the eastern side of the CF-As-Of. Also fired from |
| 1:44.8 | Kursk, we know where that is. More about that in a minute. The Escandere-M missile was |
| 1:49.5 | reportedly launched from Russian occupied Crimea. |
| 1:53.0 | Two people killed nine injured in Sumi and industrial facilities in Pultava, |
| 1:58.0 | that's in the center of the country, about 100K southwest of Harkiv, |
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