#UKRAINE: Combat Kursk Salient. John Hardie, FDD. Bill Roggio, FDD.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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1925 Kursk
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.0 | Ukraine conflict. |
| 0:13.0 | I welcome John Hardy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:18.0 | Our guide on Ukraine and the politics and diplomacy and surrounding Ukraine conflict. |
| 0:24.8 | Bill Rajo, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, Keeping a Long War Journal, is here as my |
| 0:29.8 | colleague and co-host. We begin with Reuters headlines because we're looking at a landscape |
| 0:34.9 | that is shifting all the time. |
| 0:41.4 | For example, the lead headline in these last hours. |
| 0:48.5 | Kremlin dismisses reports Trump and Putin spoke in recent days as pure fiction. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay. |
| 0:53.0 | It was dominating the news 24 hours ago. |
| 0:54.8 | Pretty good fiction. |
| 1:01.6 | And then Ukraine battles to shape, quote, starting positions for war talks after Trump returned. |
| 1:02.9 | Well, he hasn't returned yet. |
| 1:04.4 | That's January 20th. |
| 1:08.6 | Russian troops trying to advance in Kersk region to get to the battlefront. |
| 1:13.4 | And Ukraine Zelenskyy says strength must come with diplomacy to achieve peace. Mr. Hardy, a very good evening to you. I'm keen on the one headline that actually |
| 1:20.7 | speaks of facts on the ground that you can see. Russian troops trying to advance in Kersk region. |
| 1:27.5 | Kersk region is something that has been in debate for some time |
| 1:31.5 | because it was a salient meant to draw off Russian troops. |
| 1:36.2 | We were told over these last weeks it did not, |
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