Ukraine launches 'largest ever' drone attack on occupied Crimea & Russia's secret trade routes
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 547.
Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, analyse the continuing fallout after the apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and discuss the secret trade routes helping Putin dodge Western sanctions.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Melissa Lawford (Economics Reporter).
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander & Telegraph contributor). @HamishDBG on Twitter.
Relevant links:
Defence in Depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeI7w0EaY7Q
Hamish's piece: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/24/putin-prigozhin-surovikin-wagner-oligarchs/
Melissa's piece: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/19/secret-trade-routes-putin-russia-imports-western-sanctions/
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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 bring you the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 0:18.0 | Analyze the continuing fallout after the apparent death of Yvgeny Plagogen, |
| 0:22.0 | and we discuss the secret trade routes, helping Putin dodge Western sanctions. |
| 0:27.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:36.0 | We need a military strategy for Ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield, to win the war. |
| 0:43.0 | 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 Telagraphs London Newsroom |
| 0:53.0 | and our teams reporting on the ground, to bring you the latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:59.0 | It's Friday, the 25th of August, one year and 182 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:06.0 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor, Dominic Nichols, former tank commander and Telagraph contributor, Hamish Gibraton Gordon, |
| 1:13.0 | and economics reporter Melissa Lawford. |
| 1:15.0 | I started by asking Don to continue our analysis on the fallout after the death of Yvgeny Plagogen. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, hi, David. Hi, everybody. So, yeah, a lot of reaction posted. |
| 1:28.0 | You say death. Yes, I think we should go with that. |
| 1:33.0 | I mean, we talked yesterday about the number of different theories out there, some which bordering on conspiracy theory. |
| 1:40.0 | And there's no denying that we have no definitive proof that Pagogen and Dmitriyukkin and the others were killed in the plane crash. |
| 1:47.0 | We are never likely going to get any. |
| 1:49.0 | So we could dance around the, on the head of a pin for ages, or we can just say, let's refer to it as Pagogen's death. |
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