I'm David Knowles, and this is Ukraine. The latest. Today, we analyze Vladimir Putin's historic

speech in Moscow, where the Russian leader announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions,

Donetsk, Luhansk, Herzog and Safarizha, following sham referendums that were held in the territories

earlier this week. We also speak to Latvian journalists, Kristaps and Dresans, who's been reporting

from across Ukraine. We called Kristaps and Kiev before he headed home to discuss his

experiences riding a tank, speaking to Ukrainian and Allied troops, and being woken up by rocket fire.

We are facing a very serious crisis in energy caused by Putin's war in Ukraine.

Nobody is going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphs London

Newsroom and our team is reporting on the ground to bring you the latest news and analysis

on the war in Ukraine. It's Friday, the 30th of September, day 219. And today, I'm joined by our

Russia correspondent Natalia Vasilyevna and Latvian journalist Kristaps and Dresans, who called in from

Kiev. Before we talk about Vladimir Putin's speech, here are the other important updates from

Ukraine today. At least 23 people were killed and 28 wounded in a Russian missile strike

that hit a convoy of civilian vehicles and the outskirts of the southern Ukrainian city of

Safarizha, the regional governor said. Police and emergency workers rushed to the scene of the

missile strike, the impact of which through chunks of dirt into the air and sprayed the vehicles

the windows of the vehicles, mostly cars and three fans, were completely blown out.

So far, 23 dead and 28 wounded, all civilians, Aleksandra Storuk, the Safarizha regional governor

wrote on the app Telegram. In the east, a Ukrainian military operation is underway to

encircle Russian forces in the area of the eastern stronghold of Le Mans, a military spokesman

said that they had all the logistic routes into the area under fire control.

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