Ukraine repels massive Russian assault including tanks and motorbikes & controversy over athletes at Paris Olympics
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Day 884.
Today, a new mechanised push is repelled in Donbas, Ukraine claims to have pushed the last Russian ship out of the sea of Azov, and we hear about the controversy surrounding Russian and Belarusian athletes due to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics under a neutral flag.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Wayne Jordash KC, (President of Global Rights Compliance.). @WayneJordash on X.
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Articles Referenced:
Ukraine-Russia Live Blog (The Telegraph): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/24/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news13/
Biden’s legacy depends most of all on Ukraine (Atlantic Council): https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/bidens-legacy-depends-most-of-all-on-ukraine/
Ukraine thrown into war's bleak future as drones open new battlefront (BBC): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cne4vl9gy2wo
Global Rights Compliance: https://globalrightscompliance.com/2024/07/18/guardian-of-the-olympic-games-ignores-dossier-showing-over-two-thirds-of-russian-athletes-set-to-compete-at-paris-olympics-have-violated-participating-ukraine-war-neutrality-rules/
Document from the IOC: https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/News/2023/12/principles-of-participation-for-individual-neutral-athletes.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent, |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today a new Russian mechanized push is |
| 0:41.9 | repelled in Dombas. |
| 0:43.2 | Ukraine claims to have pushed the last Russian ship out of the sea of Azov |
| 0:47.6 | and we hear about the controversy surrounding Russian and Belarusian athletes |
| 0:51.0 | due to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics under a neutral flag. |
| 0:55.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:05.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 1:15.8 | Keep stand strong. |
| 1:17.5 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 1:19.5 | We're strong. |
| 1:20.8 | We're Ukrainians. It's Thursday the 25th of July, two years and 157 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:29.0 | And today I'm joined by our assistant comment editor Francis Sternernley and Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes. |
| 1:35.0 | I started by summarising the latest news from Ukraine. Let's start again in Dombs, where there's been heavy fighting near the settlement of Kuracove, that's a salient around 40 kilometers due south of Prokrowsk and Southwest of Donutsk City. |
| 1:53.2 | To be frank, it looks like a very big battle. |
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