Ukraine's 'Iron General' Zaluzhny shares his reflections & Moscow's Special Forces Training Center chief 'gunned down in the street'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Day 968.
Today, as President Zelensky takes his five-point victory plan to the European Council in Brussels, we assess comments by his former head of the armed forces, now ambassador to London, Valery Zaluzhny, and get an update on how Ukrainian children are studying in ‘bunker schools’.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Gabriella Jozwiak (Freelance Journalist). @GabriellaJ on X.
Content Referenced:
Education goes underground in Ukraine (Gabriella in The Telegraph):
Lessons in a bomb shelter: Going to school in wartime Ukraine (David's episode):
How the Belarusian Regime is Erasing Ukrainian Children's Identity through Displacement, Re-education, and Militarization (Freedom House):
Neurodevelopment in the Post-Pandemic World: The Altered Trajectory of Children's Education, Mental Health, and Brain Development (Book by Molly Colvin, Jennifer Linton Reesman, and Tannahill Glen)
Urgent plea over Crimean political prisoner charged by Russia with ‘state treason’ for refusing to fight against Ukraine (Human Rights in Ukraine):
https://khpg.org/en/1608814058
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:05.0 | Today as President Zelensky takes his five-point victory plan to the European Council in Brussels, |
| 0:11.0 | we assess comments by his former head of the armed forces, now Ambassador to |
| 0:15.7 | London Valerri Zaluzini, and can an update on how Ukrainian children are studying in bunker schools. Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:31.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear |
| 0:36.8 | our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:42.1 | Keep stand strong. |
| 0:44.0 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:45.9 | We're strong. |
| 0:47.3 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:49.3 | It's Thursday, the 17th of October, two years and 241 days since the full-scale |
| 0:55.4 | invasion began. And today I'm joined by our assistant common editor Francis |
| 0:59.4 | Dernley and freelance jonionist Gabriela Wushniac. |
| 1:03.0 | I started with the latest battlefield updates from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:08.0 | So let's start in Kursk. |
| 1:12.0 | Now the latest deep state info suggests the main body of the |
| 1:16.2 | Ukrainian position in Kursk has been quite severely dented from the west so it was a |
| 1:22.3 | very rough oval shape if you like and the the |
| 1:25.4 | sort of western side of that has had a big chunk taken out of it. Deep State also |
| 1:29.5 | suggests that the Ukrainian lodgment that was a bit further about 20 |
| 1:34.6 | case further west along the border is still there but it's much diminished. |
| 1:39.2 | Now that contrasts with information from the ISW Institute for the study of war. That entirely or mostly being closed by Russia. |
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