Ukraine pressures Russia's flanks in Bakhmut, Putin's airforce suffers & Ukraine's Eurovision extravaganza
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Day 445.
Today, Ukraine pressures Russia’s flanks around Bakhmut, the Russian airforce suffers its worst week since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and Francis Dearnley ventures to Liverpool to report on the Ukrainian experience at Eurovision.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Genevieve Holl-Allen (Foreign Correspondent). @genevieve_holl on Twitter.
Natalia Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:15.3 | Today, Ukraine crashes Russia's flanks around back-mute. |
| 0:19.0 | The Russian Air Force suffers its worst weeks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, |
| 0:22.9 | and France is certainly ventures to Liverpool to report on the Ukrainian experience at Eurovision. |
| 0:52.9 | Every weekday afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraph's London |
| 1:00.6 | Newsroom and our team's reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis |
| 1:05.7 | on the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:07.2 | It's Monday, the 15th of May, one year and 80 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:13.6 | And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor Dominic Nichols, Russia correspondent |
| 1:17.4 | Natalia Vasilyevna, foreign reporter Genevieve Hall Allen, and from Eurovision, our assistant |
| 1:22.9 | comment editor, Francis Dernley. |
| 1:25.3 | I started by asking Don, for the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:30.0 | Sure has, hi David, hi everybody. |
| 1:31.8 | It has been a very busy weekend in Ukraine, as we suggested, predicted on Friday, or predicted |
| 1:36.6 | is a bit strong, I don't think you need to be class fits to work that one out, let's |
| 1:39.6 | start off. |
| 1:40.6 | So, Ukraine's military has captured 10 Russian positions near back-mute, right? |
| 1:44.8 | Let's get rid of this one, straight off the bat. |
| 1:47.0 | That could be a headquarters, could be a trench, could be an abandoned trench, so without |
| 1:50.9 | wider context or detail, that's pretty useless information, so to spend no more time on |
| 1:56.3 | that. |
| 1:57.3 | However, British M.O.D. over the weekend said that Russia's 72nd most rifle brigade had |
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