Day 532. Today, we discuss a potential breakthrough in the grain deal, strikes in Moscow and across Ukraine, and how Ukraine’s Foreign Minister has likened his country’s counter-offensive to the Second World War Battle of Monte Cassino.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joeon Twitter.
Extras:
To listen to David’s interview with celebrated Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy, scroll to the bottom of this article and hit play on the audio player:
Serhii Plokhy interview: ‘Putin wants control of Ukraine – but he is prepared to go for plan B’, by David Knowles: bit.ly/ukraine-the-latest-serhii-plokhy
Germany buys dozens of obsolete tanks to refurbish and send to Ukraine, by Joe Barnes: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/09/leopard-1-tanks-bought-germany-send-ukraine-belgium/
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The west must give Ukraine more long range missiles to attack amo dumps and critical infrastructure, almost all top military men including Ben Hodges and Michael Clark to name two, say they are disappointed to put it mildly why the west won’t give more, like U.K. storm shadow, because of the risks of escalation, which as Ben Hodges said that is just ridiculous considering what the Russians are firing at and using, as said if Putin wins he will not stop, then NATO etc will really be in deep trouble, shame on them, come on America.
how many wars has terror bombing made the difference? none?
Could Ukraine find a few missiles left over from the Soviet era? The nuclear deterrent would soon put an end to the war.. It may be a brutal antidote to Putin's propensity to change the historical records.. Just an idea..
Fart in a submarine 😂😂😂
Totally agree with Dom on Gordon Brown. His actions and inactions in many respects were totally disgraceful.
If the EU doesn't want Belarus to use migrants as a weapon, welcome them, process them, return the ones who are potential security risks and send those that qualify to different EU countries. There is a lack of good workers everywhere, that is to everyone's advantage, except Belarus'.
I enjoy your program very much Laguna, Woods, California
Slava, Ukraine steady as we go
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I just wonder, why do telegraph journalists find a German official spying for Russia a “fun story”? Almost as if this war was not real…
Well done Francis on covering that brilliant anecdote from one of your American listeners at the end. Keep up the great work. I love your podcast.
Another steaming pile of dung from the Telegraph, lapped up by credulous sycophants.
Nobody believes this propaganda.
The Kerch Bridge wasn't targeted for destruction.
Several S200 missiles were fired at the Kerch bridge.
They weren't fired to destroy the bridge.
They have, with the help of hundreds of Russians taking videos identified all the Russian defenses for the bridge.
Ukraine knows where the smoke screens are, they have pinpointed the positions of the air defence missile platforms, and lastly all Russia has shared the videos causing fear in the population.
Next time the Ukraine attack will take out the defences first, 😮?🤔 .
More Terror attacks from Fascist Ukraine.
God Bless Ukraine
Brilliant analysis especially interesting about McArthur
I love the historical insight. The parallels between this in WWII are striking. How we can make the same mistakes now that we made then is incomprehensible.
Usa are fighting Russia until the last Ucrainian.
Dom for Prime Minister! Great argument on what needs to be done now and how poorly the armed forces were treated under Brown. Keep up the good work team.
33:00 "COWARDS"? New Guinea was a NIGHTMARE. Americans were sent into jungles so pestilential even the hardy Australians wouldn't set foot in.