Ukraine shocks Russia with a surprise offensive into Kursk
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Day 897.
Today, we analyse Ukraine’s surprise attack on the Kursk region in Russia, discuss Russia’s continuing worrying advance across Donbas and we hear the latest political and diplomatic updates across Europe and the world.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor).
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence).
Gareth Corfield (Transport Correspondent).
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| 0:26.0 | T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards. I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we analyze Ukraine's |
| 0:42.0 | a surprise attack on the Kursk region in Russia. |
| 0:45.0 | We discuss Russia's continuing advance across Dunbarse |
| 0:48.0 | and we hear the latest political and diplomatic updates across Europe and the world. |
| 0:53.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:03.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense |
| 1:07.0 | to make clear our unshakable support of NATO |
| 1:10.0 | and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 1:13.6 | Keep stand strong. |
| 1:15.4 | Nobody is going to break us. |
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| 1:18.4 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:20.4 | It's Wednesday the 7th of August, two years and 170 days since the full scale invasion began. |
| 1:26.0 | And today I'm joined by our associate editor Dominic Nichols, assistant comment editor Francis |
| 1:31.2 | Dernley, and transport correspondent Gareth Corfield I started by asking Dom for the latest news from Ukraine |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, hi David. Hi team how are we all getting on? So Russia's focus at the moment is very |
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