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

Today, as Zolensky finally announces his victory plan to Parliament, we assess fast-moving military

development as Ukraine faces pressure on multiple fronts and then sit down with a 29- old commander of a frontline attack drone unit.

Braverine 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 standing strong. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainian. Ukraineians.

It's Wednesday, the 16th of October, two years and 240 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today I'm joined by our senior foreign correspondent Roland O'Lofant,

Lieutenant Yulia Mick Itenko,

her biographer, Lara Marlow,

and to assist with translation, Nasir Yachshishin.

First, over to Roland for a summary of frontline movements over the past 24 hours.

Hello, good morning, Francis.

As is our custom, we'll start with the usual kind of clockwise

assessment of the Battlefront starting at roughly 12 o'clock, the most northerly

easily point, which is of course, Kurt Scholblaston aside Russia where

Ukraine is fighting its own offensive since August.

Now the kind of headline you'll see think on our website and our paper this morning is that there are credible reports

Russia has now retaken roughly half of the territory initially seized by Ukraine

during its encouraging into Kursk in August now that comes from several sources. One of them is Russian. It's Abtia Al-O-Dinov, the church

and commander of Akmat Spetsnaz. He said yesterday that approximately half of the territory that was occupied by the enemy has been liberated he said now

That does actually chime with Institute of the Study of War which says it's it's observed visual evidence that says the Russians have recaptured roughly

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