The DSR Daily Brief for June 5, 2023: The Cause of the Train Crash in India, A Close Call in the Taiwan Strait

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The three-hundred-second episode of the DSR Daily Brief Stories Cited in the Episode: Ukraine war: Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive India train disaster: signal fault identified as cause, says minister As oil prices stagnate, OPEC Plus opts to extend production cuts China’s new defense chief ghosts the US, but meets with Europeans Fighter jets chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia US video shows close call with Chinese warship in Taiwan Strait Mystery creature caught on camera in South Carolina waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.7	Our top stories from international outlets this morning. The BBC reports that Russia's defense
1:18.9	ministry says it has awarded a major Ukrainian offensive in Dinesque, claiming to have killed 250
1:25.9	troops and destroyed armored vehicles. Video of what Russia says is the battle appears to show
1:32.7	military vehicles coming under heavy fire in fields. Russia's claim has not been verified,
1:39.6	and Ukraine's military said the country is spreading disinformation. A Ukrainian counteroffensive
1:45.9	has been long awaited, but Kiev says it will not give advance warning of its start.
1:51.9	The latest reports are therefore being seen as a fresh sign that the expected Ukrainian offensive
1:58.8	may have begun. The Russian defense ministry said Ukraine had launched the large-scale offensive
2:05.1	in the Dinesque region on Sunday using six mechanized and two tank battalions. It claimed the
2:12.4	Ukrainians tried to break through Russian defenses in what Kiev saw as the most vulnerable part of
2:19.2	the front line, but that it did not achieve its tasks. It had no success. According to the Guardian,
2:28.3	India's Railways Minister has said the country's deadliest train crash in more than two decades
2:34.4	was caused by an error in electronic signals that sent a train onto the wrong tracks.
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