I'm Frances Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest.

Today we report on the destruction wrought by intense fighting and denets.

Consider new indications of what Zolensky's victory plan entails, and here a sobering assessment of the current situation on the battlefield from somebody frequently there.

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear

our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine.

Keep staying strong.

Nobody's going to break us.

We're strong.

We're Ukrainians.

It's Tuesday, the 15th of October, two years and 239 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today I'm joined by our associate editor of Defence, Dominic Nichols,

and Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent, who has spent a considerable amount of time on the front lines in recent months.

I started by asking Dom, however, for the latest battlefield updates from Ukraine and Russia.

There are no intact buildings or shelters left in Toretsky,

there's in Donezk Oblast, this comes from Anastasia Boba Canova, a spokesperson

for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk, speaking yesterday.

Now Roland yesterday spoke of how Torets that town is about 40K's north of

Dunyat City about the same distance east northeast of Percromis has been under extreme

pressure in recent weeks. You may remember last Friday I

quoted local Ukrainian authorities as saying that Kyve controlled about 40 or

roughly they said 40 to 50% of the town.

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