I'm David Nulls, and this is Ukraine, the latest, today. Russia attempts to form a militia

in her son, while evacuating much of its forces from the city. We discuss the warnings

of a dirty bomb attack, and here from our senior economic reporter, who's just come back

from a reporting trip to Germany to analyze how sanctions and the energy crisis are affecting

German industry and support for Ukraine.

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Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London

and our team's reporting on the ground, to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war

in Ukraine. It's Monday, the 24th of October, day 243.

And today, I'm joined by our associate editor, Dominic Nichols, our senior economic reporter,

Ayes Nolsay, and former British Army Colonel and expert on chemical, biological, radiological,

and nuclear weapons, Hamish de Breton Gordon. I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine.

Hello, David, and hello, everybody. It's been a week indominated by phone calls between senior defense ministers,

which we'll speak about in a moment, but tactically on the ground, the focus again has been in the Hezon region,

so that Russia has put out an announcement to all local men that are left in the city,

because, of course, they've been evacuating civilians over the last few days trying to get them out of the city

in the face of the impending Ukrainian assault, but Russia has now said to any men that are remaining,

they're offering them the, quote, opportunity to join a local militia to defend the city in the face of the Ukrainian advance.

Now, in the other occupied areas of Ukraine, we've seen these militias being, or seen people being,

basically pressed gangred into these groups, so whether or not this opportunity will turn into something a bit more forceful.

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