Zelensky refuses request for 500,000 troops | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast



Day 663.

Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, talk about Zelenskyโ€™s press conference, and hear how Russiaโ€™s Defence Minister thinks his army is the most โ€œcombat effective in the worldโ€.

Contributors:

Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

Tim Sigsworth (Foreign Reporter). @tjsigsworth on Twitter.

Charities: We have spoken to many charities this year โ€“ from Vans Without Borders, to GP Now, to KHARPP โ€“ and we receive many messages from listeners asking for recommendations of charities they can support. We include a link to the Ukrainian Institute of Londonโ€™s list of charities and organisations they recommend:

https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/russias-war-against-ukraine-what-can-you-do-to-support-ukraine-ukrainians/

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29 thoughts on “Zelensky refuses request for 500,000 troops | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast”

  1. Great reporting. So much better than BBC or The Times, whose guests rarely come with anything I did not already know and any average youtube browser can figure out for himself. From a small country in southern europe.

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  2. Iโ€™m starting to lose faith in the resolve of the west itโ€™s a total joke, the bare minimum amount of aid Ukraine is receiving currently. Apparently the wests resources are huge compared to the worlds dictatorships that are supporting Russia but only what is actually materialising counts in my opinion. Kim Jong can send 1m shells to Russia in a 10th of the time the west does, what an embarrassment!

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  3. I'm pretty certain, that usually while a war is still going on, the first ones to wish to give witness to a war crime, especially in the situation where the war criminal country is not going to go down in flames, at least to anybody's immediate view of the future, they are usually not the type that are doing it to get away from the crimes they have committed themselves. Having said that, we will know if that is the case depending on what type of immunity they're trying to get, not what is being offered to them, but what they actually asking for

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  4. The sanctions were never intended to stop all trade. They were intended to create friction, to create cost, to reduce the return of investment, or just drive up the cost directly for consumables. It was meant to reduce the money coming into Russia or the products that are necessary to run a military into Russia. They were also intended not to affect the individuals as much as possible, the average Ivan or Olga, in Russia. But it has had the overall effect of creating inflationary pressures. Despite Russia saying they have no inflation, the reality is they absolutely have inflation, pretty extraordinary inflation in fact. But that wasn't the intent, at least not in the regular consumer market, intent was to do that for the defense ecosystem and the direct inflow of cash from the energy market specifically but also other resources… I'm glad they're still adjusting it, I wish they would add more people so that they could adjust it even more… They should also increase the costs to the individuals that are working in this alternative path for these goods

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  5. The fact that Ukraine needs another 500,000 soldiers now, after starting out with what was by European or NATO standards a huge armed forces shows that they must be replacements for those already killed and inured. Thatโ€™s a lot of dead Ukrainian youth and Zelensky wants to burn up another 500,000, and for what?

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  6. @ 39:00 I don't understand the analysts perceived issue with Ukraine striking the now Russian operated port in Abkhazia. How could Georgia have a problem with that? Abkhazia's border with Georgia creeps south from time to time; taking more and more Georgian territory under Abkhazian jurisdiction. Georgians who lived near the border are now in Abkhazia.

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