I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we analyze fresh Russian strikes

in Ukraine, bring you the latest diplomatic updates from across Europe and speak to Professor

Dominik Aral, Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa.

This hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in favor.

Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilized energy markets the world over.

Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

Every week day afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphs London Newsroom

and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine.

It's Thursday, the 26th of January, day 338.

And with me to discuss the most recent events in Ukraine and around the world, I'm joined

by our associate editor Dominik Nichols, our assistant comment editor francister Stanley.

Our guest is Professor Dominik Aral from the University of Ottawa and Canada.

And we'd also like to welcome later into the discussion our senior foreign correspondent, Roland Donovan.

With the anniversary of the full scale invasion looming, we will be talking a lot in the next few weeks

about the war in Ukraine before February the 24th, 2022.

We'll speak to journalists, academics, eyewitnesses, everyone we can to help us understand the crucial backdrop

to what has been dubbed the full scale invasion that started in February last year.

We'll try to chart how Ukraine and society in politics has changed, sometimes drastically,

and shine a light onto a bloody, difficult and complicated war.

The subject is sometimes controversial and, of course, it can be difficult to look back

at the recent past through today's lenses, especially after a year of unprovoked cruelty, war crimes

and horror perpetuated by Russia's armed forces.

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