Ukraine launches drone attacks 'from inside Russia', Prigozhin returns & Moscow's spy network exposed
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Day 544.
Today, we analyse the heavy fighting in Robotyne as Ukrainian forces advance, discuss Russian tank tactics, and explore how the West smashed Russia's deep-cover spy networks.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former NATO Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on Twitter.
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How the West smashed Russia's deep-cover spy networks, by Nataliya Vasilyeva: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/21/russia-spies-network-expulsion-west-vladimir-putin-bulgaria/
The Russian risking everything to stand up to Putin, by Patrick Forbes:
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, we analyse the heavy fighting in Rebotany as Ukrainian forces advance. |
| 0:20.0 | We discuss Russian tank tactics and explore how the West smashed Russia's deep cover spy networks. |
| 0:26.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:35.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war. |
| 0:42.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground, |
| 0:54.0 | to bring the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.0 | It's Tuesday, the 22nd of August, one year and 179 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:05.0 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor Dominic Nichols, assistant comment editor francister Stanley, |
| 1:10.0 | Russia correspondent Natalia Vasilyevna, and former tank commander and telegraph contributor, Hamish de Breton Gordon. |
| 1:17.0 | I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:24.0 | Hi, David. Hi, everybody. So let's go down south first of all. Heavy fighting is continuing around Robertina. |
| 1:30.0 | So Ukraine is trying to consolidate the position there and push round to the east. |
| 1:36.0 | It looks like the town of Vibova, which is about 7k to the east, is under pressure now by Ukrainian forces. |
| 1:43.0 | It looks like they're trying to squeeze round to the east and reinforce what's happening down there. |
| 1:48.0 | It's thought that some of the brigades operating down there using some of the new western supplied equipment. |
| 1:55.0 | Ukraine's armed forces said in a statement, soldiers of the 47th separate mechanized brigade entered the village of Robertina. |
| 2:02.0 | Medics of the 47th separate mechanized brigade examined civilians and gave them an opportunity to call their relatives. |
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