Zelensky to make last-ditch plea for war funds in Washington & the realities of reporting from the front lines in Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Day 655.
Today, we bring you the news from the frontlines, update on Volodymyr’s Zelenksy’s visit to the US ahead of a historic day on the US Capitol and we hear stories and reflections from a journalist who’s spends his time reporting from the front lines in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.
Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @Francis Dearnley on Twitter.
Guillaume Ptak (French journalist for daily newspapers "Les Echos" & "La Libre Belgique"). @guillaume_ptak on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm David Knowles. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we bring you news from |
| 0:17.6 | across the front lines update on Vladimir Zelensky's visit to the US |
| 0:21.4 | ahead of a historic day on the US capital and we hear moving stories and reflections from a journalist who spends his time reporting from the front lines in the Russo-Ukraineian war. |
| 0:30.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:39.0 | If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job. |
| 0:44.3 | Slava Ukrainian. |
| 0:45.4 | Nobody is one of the great us. |
| 0:48.1 | We're strong. |
| 0:49.1 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:51.1 | Every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the Telegraphs London. years. on the war in Ukraine. It's Tuesday, the 12th of December, one year and 291 days since the full-scale invasion |
| 1:06.8 | began. |
| 1:07.8 | And today I'm joined by our associate editor Dominicles, assistant comment editor Francis |
| 1:11.9 | Dernley, Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes, and our guest |
| 1:15.5 | is Guillaum Petak, a French freelance journalist and correspondent for daily newspapers Liseco and |
| 1:21.0 | Le Leibre Belgic. |
| 1:28.0 | Just a quick note from me, we recorded this podcast ahead of Selensky's crucial day in Washington. And while the significance and the impact of the network outage in Ukraine was still emerging. We will of course |
| 1:34.0 | return to both of these stories in more detail tomorrow. I started by asking Dom for |
| 1:39.0 | the latest news from Ukraine. Well, hi David, hi everybody, it's so difficult to get news out of Ukraine as always, but we think |
| 1:48.8 | Russia has been continuing its offensive operations. |
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