Six months of war in Ukraine
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today marks six months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a Twitter whistleblower says the company hid security flaws and fake accounts, and the waters off the coast of Somalia are no longer high risk for shipping
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They dig, and dig and dig: Russia entrenched in Ukraine six months into war
Twitter covered up security flaws and fake accounts, says whistleblower
Shipping industry says piracy off coast of Somalia is no longer a threat
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | Today is Wednesday, August 24th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.5 | Twitter is facing whistleblower allegations that could hurt its case against Elon Musk. |
| 0:23.2 | Somalia used to be famous for pirate attacks, not anymore though, |
| 0:27.6 | but first we'll take a look at Russia's war on Ukraine. |
| 0:30.3 | It's gone on for half a year now. |
| 0:32.7 | A Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:43.9 | Today marks six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:47.3 | It's difficult to know how many people have died, |
| 0:49.4 | but Ukraine's military says it's lost 9,000 members of its armed forces. |
| 0:54.3 | Russia has lost about 15,000 troops, |
| 0:57.0 | and an untold thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed. |
| 1:01.2 | And it doesn't look like the conflict will end anytime soon. |
| 1:05.0 | To talk about the trajectory of the war so far, |
| 1:07.3 | I'm joined by our security and defense correspondent, John Paul Rathbone. |
| 1:11.2 | Hi JP. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi, good to be here. |
| 1:14.0 | So JP, did people expect this war to last so long? |
| 1:17.9 | It's really remarkable six months on just to review |
| 1:21.1 | how expectations have changed. |
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