I'm David Nols and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we discuss the latest updates from

Ukraine, analyze recent losses in Russian aviation and we talk about the shifting

tectonic plates of international influence in central Asia, as Russian power erodes.

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

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

Every weekday 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 Monday, the 19th

of September, day 208 and today I'm joined by associate editor Dominic

Nichols and foreign correspondent James Killner. I started by asking Dom for

the latest news from Ukraine.

Hi David, hi everybody. There's been still a lot of fighting up in the east, the

Karkiv front has yet to really settle down that Russian forces retreated to the

east of the Oskul River. In some parts that does make a satisfactory defensive

line. The geography lends itself to a defensive position in which case they've

held that and in other areas it does not so they have moved some kilometers

further east. So this doesn't look like a continued advance necessarily by

Ukrainian forces although as I say up and down the line there have been probing

attacks from both sides but we don't think the line is settling down because of

it continues Ukrainian attacks. We think it's because that's where the where

the land necessarily lends itself to to a better defensive position. However like

say there are there are still attacks going on in the north and the east and

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