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Ukraine: The Latest

Strike on Moscow skyscraper & Ukraine destroys Russian missile system in Crimea

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Documentary, History, Jets, News, Tanks, Russians, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War, Vladimir Putin, Guns, Ukraine, Army, Daily News, Russia-ukraine Conflict, Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Day 545.

Note: This episode was recorded before reports of Prigozhin's death.

Today, we bring you news from across Ukraine, analyse a new British plan to aid Ukraine’s energy sector through the winter, and discuss Elon Musk’s star link satellites and the billionaire’s unpredictable influence on the invasion.


Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

Genevieve Holl-Allen (Politics Reporter). @genevieve_holl on Twitter.


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0:00.0

I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we bring you news from across

0:17.3

Ukraine. Analyze a new British plan to aid Ukraine's energy sector through the winter

0:22.2

and discuss Elon Musk's Starlink satellites and the billionaire's unpredictable influence

0:26.5

on the course of the war. Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to

0:34.0

finally reward you with victory. We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive

0:40.9

advantage on the battlefield to win the war. Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're

0:47.1

Ukrainians. Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphs

0:53.2

London Newsroom and our team is reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis

0:58.4

on the war in Ukraine. It's Wednesday, the 23rd of August, one year and 180 days since the

1:05.3

full scale invasion began and today I'm joined by associate editor Dominic Nichols,

1:09.8

politics reporter Genevieve Hall Allen and Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes.

1:14.7

I started by asking Don for the latest news from Ukraine.

1:18.8

Well hi David, hi everybody and a happy national flag day to our Ukrainian listeners.

1:23.6

So first thing, alleged Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow has damaged a building in the central

1:29.9

business district. That's according to Russian authorities earlier today. That's the sixth

1:35.2

straight night of aerial attacks around Moscow. So they say air defense is downed one Ukrainian drone

1:42.3

in the Mosisky district and one in the Himki district of Moscow region. That's from the Russian

1:48.3

M.O.D. But the third drone hit one of the skyscrapers. The one called Moscow Towers, I think that's

1:54.3

been hit before, in the Moscow city business district. This is about three miles to the west of the

2:00.3

Kremlin. So just outside the center itself, big swanky business district, they're saying it was

2:06.6

suppressed by air defenses and so came down. Very dramatic footage on our website

2:12.2

and elsewhere. You'll see that. Now staying inside Russia, go down south a little bit. The

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