Ukraine: The Latest

Day 696. Today, we bring you latest updates from across Ukraine, discuss developments in Russia as thousands queued to endorse a liberal and anti-war politician’s presidential bid and we analyse Russian and Ukrainian tank tactics. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. James Kilner...

Day 695. Today, we bring you latest updates from across Ukraine, discuss the economic developments in the country over the past two years, and ask how a war with Russia could unfold by focusing on the Suwalki Gap. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Corresponden...

Day 692. Today, we bring you latest updates from across Ukraine, discuss broader strategic questions for the year to come for Russia, the West and Ukraine, and analyse the news that Russia’s oil and gas revenues have plummeted by 37pc in just one year. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls o...

Day 691. Today, Ukraine attacked an oil terminal in a rare drone strike on St Petersburg, we update from the US as negotiations on support for Ukraine grind on and we hear more about events inside Russia as there are protests in the republic of Bashkortostan and thousands freeze as pipes malfunction in the Russian winter.  Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22...

Day 691. Today, unknown partisans bomb railway lines across Russia, the EU rebukes Germany for unilaterally pledging aid to Ukraine and Russia bombards Ukraine with missiles and drones with strikes in Odesa and Kharkiv. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant...

Day 690. Today, Ukraine evacuates parts of Kharkiv Oblast ahead of a feared Russian assault, Russia declares a state of emergency in Voronezh and Zelensky makes his case to a packed congress hall at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter....

Day 689. Today, Ukraine claims to have shot down a £274m Russian spy plane, Zelenksy heads to Switzerland and the World Economic Forum in Davos to make his case to world leaders, and we discuss Ukrainian resistance in the occupied territories.  The Estonia Plan:  https://kaitseministeerium.ee/sites/default/files/setting_transatlantic_defence_up_for_success_0.pdf   Kyiv Independent o...

Day 686. Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine as Rishi Sunak visits Kyiv in a major pledge of more British support. We also speak about Russian force generation efforts and Francis Dearnley updates us on important developments in Ukrainian politics. For more about 'Battle Lines', another foreign policy podcast from The Telegraph , visit its page here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk...

Day 685. Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine and the world and speak to friend of the podcast Aliona Hlivco on the the state of the war and why 2024 is a crucial year for Western democracies. Plus, we speak to volunteer soldiers fighting in the east to understand more about their daily lives and the realities of fighting in this war. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio D...

Day 684. Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine and catch up with our Senior Foreign Correspondent Roland Oliphant who steps back from the daily news to give his sense of the state of the war in 2024. It’s a difficult listen but, we think, an important one. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Corresponda...

Day 683. Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine, hear about Christmas in Kyiv - living under constant threat of bombing - and catch up with our US Editor Tony Diver as US politics returns after the holidays. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Tony Diver (US Editor). @Tony_Diver on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_...

Day 682. Today, we bring you the latest news from the front lines, discuss Telegraph polling of US public opinion and we hear from Ukrainian politician and leader of the Holos political party, Kira Rudik, who’s own home has been damaged by Russian bombing. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley...

Day 679. Today, we bring you the latest news from the front lines as Ukraine warns of an impending Russian assault in the east, update on the latest political news and discuss F-16s, British mine hunter vessels and how the war may evolve in 2024. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitte...

Day 678. Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine, update on the diplomatic and political news and discuss an important article from RUSI’s Jack Watling on the state of the war. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on...

Day 677. Today, we discuss the impact and fallout of the missile and drone strikes across Ukraine and we analyse the strategy of Volodymyr Zelensky in the weeks and months ahead. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Read...

Day 676. Today, we discuss the massive strikes on Ukrainian cities as Russia launches another deadly bombardment and analyse the scandal in Russia as a ‘nearly naked’ party outrages public opinion. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. James Kilner (Editor, Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin). @JKJourno on Twitter. Tim Sigsworth (Foreign Rep...

In September 2023, the Ukraine: The Latest team took a trip to Washington DC for a live show at the British Embassy. While in the US, host David Knowles went to a Ukrainian festival at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Silver Spring, Maryland.  The festival promised Ukrainian music, culture, dancing, singing...and even a Cossack beer garden! In this special episode of Ukraine:...

Day 672. Today, we bring you the news of the biggest airstrike on Ukraine since Day 1 of the full scale invasion. Later, we interview Yaroslava Barbieri, doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, delving into indoctrination in Russian occupied Donetsk and Luhansk. Contributors: Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence).  @DomNicholls on Twitter. Yaroslava Barbieri (Researcher, Russi...

Day 671. Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, including how Putin has reportedly sent ‘revenge squads’ into Crimea, plus reflections on the Holodomor. Contributors: Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former British Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on...

Day 670. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines and hear from Dr Daria Mattingly on the Holodomor, the Soviet engineered famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Dr Daria Mattingly (Lecturer in European History, Expert on Ukraine) @DariaMat...

In June 2023 Ukraine: The Latest presenter and host David Knowles accompanied a group of volunteers delivering aid and vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces. Over 10 days they drove around 2000 miles from suburban south London to a Ukrainian front line city. On the journey, David spoke to the volunteers, civilians and soldiers to understand why ordinary people would commit to their extraordinary...

In June 2023 Ukraine: The Latest presenter and host David Knowles accompanied a group of volunteers delivering aid and vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces. Over 10 days they drove around 2000 miles from suburban south London to a Ukrainian front line city. On the journey, David spoke to the volunteers, civilians and soldiers to understand why ordinary people would commit to their extraordinary...

Day 665. Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, discuss the latest on sending cars to Ukraine from London, and we hear a dispatch from Francis Dearnley who took a microphone along to the Ukrainian Institute of London a week before Christmas.   Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence).&nbs...

Day 664. Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, update on diplomatic developments from Germany, Hungary and Poland, and Dom explains the crisis in the Red Sea and its relevance to the Ukraine war.  Contributors: David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter. Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Cor...

Day 663. Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, talk about Zelensky's press conference, and hear how Russia's Defence Minister thinks his army is the most "combat effective in the world". Contributors: Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. Tim Sigsworth (Foreign Reporter). @tjsigs...