Zelensky says Kyiv needs 'nukes or NATO membership' & North Koreans 'desert' Ukraine frontline
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Day 969.
Today, as President Zelensky leaves EU leaders with his call for more urgent action, we speak to a former British Defence Secretary about the impact of having North Korean soldiers fighting in Europe.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to former Secretary of State for Defence Sir Liam Fox. @LiamFox on X.
Content Referenced:
Don’t believe Putin’s lies: Ukraine is not ‘persecuting’ Christians (Dr Ivana Stradner in The Telegraph)
Liam Fox's book, The Coming Storm: Why water will write the 21st century
https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-coming-storm
Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/17/zelensky-ukraine-seek-nuclear-weapons-join-nato/
Donald Trump blames Zelensky for Ukraine war (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/17/donald-trump-blames-zelensky-ukraine-war/
South Korean intelligence says North is sending troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine (AP)
North Korean Troops Deserting Ukraine Frontline Days After Arrival: Report (Newsweek)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:06.0 | Today as President Zelensky leaves EU leaders with his call for nukes or NATO, |
| 0:11.0 | we speak to a former British Defence Secretary about the impact of |
| 0:14.8 | having North Korean soldiers fighting in Europe. |
| 0:18.2 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:27.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:38.0 | Keep stand strong. |
| 0:40.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians. |
| 0:44.7 | It's Friday, 18th of October, two years and |
| 0:48.5 | 242 days since the full-scale invasion began. And today I'm joined by our assistant |
| 0:54.0 | comment editor Francis Dernley and former British Defence Secretary Sir Liam Fox. |
| 0:58.6 | I started with the latest battlefield updates from Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:04.0 | So last night there was a large Russian drone attack across the whole of Ukraine. |
| 1:09.0 | Ukraine's Air Force this morning said it had shot down 80 of 135 munitions, another 44 possibly lost to electronic warfare. |
| 1:19.7 | However, amid this mass attack, Romania's defense ministry said it had needed to |
| 1:25.0 | scramble jets as an unidentified aerial object had approached and then entered |
| 1:30.2 | its territory before radar lost track of it near the town of Amzakea that's near the |
| 1:35.9 | Black Sea coast it's right down south in the southeast corner of Romania about 100 |
| 1:40.3 | k's south of the nearest Ukrainian border only about 20 kilometers from the border with |
| 1:45.4 | Bulgaria. Now I've said it before you've hope you said it before I don't know why |
| 1:49.2 | NATO air defence isn't bringing these things down. I wonder, I wonder if by acting if NATO did |
| 1:56.6 | act it would ride Russia over this facade that Russia's actions in Ukraine |
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