'This is Ukraine's darkest hour. But it's always darkest before dawn' & why 2024 is the year the West must step up
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Day 685.
Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine and the world and speak to friend of the podcast Aliona Hlivco on the the state of the war and why 2024 is a crucial year for Western democracies.
Plus, we speak to volunteer soldiers fighting in the east to understand more about their daily lives and the realities of fighting in this war.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.
Aliona Hlivco (Managing Director at The Henry Jackson Society) @Aliona_hlivco on Twitter
With thanks to Ada Wordsworth (Founder, KHARPP Charity) @padochka on Twitter.
With thanks to Vladislav & Igor.
Read Ada's thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/padochka/status/1734194518306472306
Read "This is Ukraine's Darkest Hour": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/05/this-is-ukraine-darkest-hour-always-darkest-before-dawn/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we bring you military |
| 0:09.8 | diplomatic and political news from across Ukraine and the world. |
| 0:13.4 | We speak to friend of the podcast, Alleone Hillivka, on the state of the war and why 2024 is a crucial |
| 0:18.6 | year for Western democracies. |
| 0:20.8 | I also speak to volunteer soldiers fighting in the East to understand more about their work, daily life and the realities of fighting in this war. |
| 0:29.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:38.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:43.2 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 0:45.0 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 0:47.0 | We are strong. |
| 0:48.2 | We are Ukrainians. |
| 0:50.9 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's |
| 0:54.1 | London Newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis |
| 0:59.3 | on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.4 | It's Thursday the 11th of January, one year and 321 days since the full-scale |
| 1:06.1 | invasion began. And today I'm joined by Brussels Correspondent Joe Barnes and Managing Director |
| 1:11.8 | at the Henry Jackson Society, |
| 1:13.4 | Alleona Helivko. |
| 1:15.0 | I started by summarizing the latest updates from Ukraine. |
| 1:19.0 | There's been another strike on a Harkiv hotel part of a series of attacks on the Eastern |
| 1:27.0 | Ukrainian city. A Turkish journalist was among 13 civilians wounded in the Russian missile strike |
| 1:32.3 | on the hotel on Wednesday night. |
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