Day 948.

Today, further to updates from the war zone, we look at the new military aid package announced by the US for Kyiv, discuss the upcoming meeting between President Zelensky and Donald Trump, and review Russian rockets and the battle for space with a former commander of the International Space Station.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

With thanks to Terry Virts, former US Air Force F-16 pilot, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and currently a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics, an energy think tank. @AstroTerry on X.

Content Referenced:

U.S. Intelligence Stresses Risks in Allowing Long-Range Strikes by Ukraine (New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/us-intelligence-stresses-risks-in-allowing-long-range-strikes-by-ukraine.html

Children lost to the war (Ukrainian Government):

https://childrenofwar.gov.ua/en/

Ukraine Focus NGO, delivering Ambulances to Ukraine:

For more information, visit:

https://ukrainefocus.org/ 

For Francis's episode on his journey with Ukraine Focus, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHOEYMfizow

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Day 947.

Today, following the usual military and political updates in this major week, we talk to two of the most high profile analysts of the war about their new report into how rectifying systematic failures in Western analysis and intelligence is vital for preventing future conflict.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

Eliot A. Cohen (Former Counsellor of the United States Department of State). @EliotACohen on X.

Phillips O'Brien (Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews). @PhillipsPOBrien on X.

Report Referenced: 

'The Russia-Ukraine War: A Study in Analytic Failure' (by Phillips O'Brien & Eliot Cohen)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-ukraine-war-study-analytic-failure

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Day 946.

Today we hear how the Ukrainian city of Vuhledar is now at great risk of becoming encircled and discuss whether the increasingly fiery exchanges in the United Nations will have any impact.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

Content Referenced:

Brand new luxury British and European cars are entering Russia despite being banned - here's how (Sky News):

https://news.sky.com/story/brand-new-luxury-british-and-european-cars-are-entering-russia-despite-being-banned-heres-how-13218444

Meloni-themed restaurant opens in Albania near Italian migrant centres:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/25/meloni-themed-restaurant-opens-in-near-migrant-centres/

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Day 945.

Today, military and political battlefields align as President Zelensky fights to persuade world leaders to support Kyiv further while his country faces new bombardments, and – later in the episode – the team share memories of their time in the military talking to veterans of the Second World War, and reflect on what it will mean for soldiers, and Western culture, for that generation to disappear.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.

Content Referenced:

Battle Lines - our sister podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battle-lines/id1712903296

Revealed: Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers show (The Guardian):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/revealed-russia-anticipated-kursk-incursion-months-in-advance-seized-papers-show

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Day 944

Today, as he heads to Washington, we look at President Zelensky’s 4-point peace plan and hear from Berlin as Chancellor Scholz survives an electoral challenge from left and right.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter). @RolandOliphant on X.

James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.

Articles Referenced:

David Knowles: Telegraph journalist who made huge impact in a short life (Press Gazette)

https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/david-knowles-telegraph-journalist-who-made-huge-impact-in-a-short-life/

Back to the Cold War: Russia uses Mexico as a hub for spying on the US (NBC News):

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/cold-war-russia-uses-mexico-hub-spying-us-rcna171819

Fake UK news sites ‘spreading false stories’ about western firms in Ukraine (The Guardian):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/fake-uk-news-sites-spreading-false-stories-about-western-firms-in-ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky Has a Plan for Ukraine’s Victory (The New Yorker):

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/volodymyr-zelensky-has-a-plan-for-ukraines-victory

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Day 941

Today, we look at the latest developments on the frontline; Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara Murza insists a democratic Russia is possible - as long as the West helps Ukraine win the war; and a leading financial journalist takes us inside the Economic war, the West’s sanctions on Russia, and the Kremlin’s attempts to outfox them.

Contributors:

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter). @RolandOliphant on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Latika M Bourke (Writer-at-Large for @thenightlyau). @latikambourke on X.

Stephanie Baker (Senior Writer, Bloomberg). @StephaniBaker on X.

Articles:

Stephanie's Book: Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia:

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/punishing-putin-inside-the-global-economic-war-to-bring-down-russia-stephanie-baker?variant=40921316196430

Tribute Episode to David Knowles of Battle Lines:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-memory-of-david-knowles-creator-of-battle-lines/id1712903296?i=1000669411669

Volunteers dying as Russia’s war dead tops 70,000 (BBC):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr3255gpjgo

How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won (The Guardian):

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/sep/12/enrc-oligarchs-took-on-serious-fraud-office-and-won

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Day 940:

Today, we assess the latest military manoeuvres in Kursk, look at how Indian munitions are finding their way into Ukraine, and consider the latest in Ukrainian politics and culture.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Svitlana Morenets (Ukrainian journalist, The Spectator) @SvMorenets on X.

Articles Referenced:

Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/ammunition-india-enters-ukraine-raising-russian-ire-2024-09-19/

Russia tried to stage coup in Armenia, prosecutors allege (Politico)

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-stage-violent-coup-armenia-investigation-allegiation/

Moldova charges former top general with high treason after The Insider exposes him as GRU informant (The Insider)

https://theins.press/en/news/274691

Francis's episode on Mikhail Bulgakov

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mikhail-bulgakov-the-author-on-the-front-line/id1612424182?i=1000651046135

It's time to let Ukraine to join NATO (Boris Johnson in The Spectator)

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-time-to-let-ukraine-join-nato/

Lessons from Kursk (Desk Russie)

https://desk-russie.info/2024/09/09/lessons-from-kursk.html

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Day 939.

Today, we discuss an enormous explosion as Kyiv strikes a Russian military depot, hear about Moscow’s hybrid war in the Arctic, and receive an update on the state of the Kursk operation and the munitions race.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Michael Bohnert (Engineer at RAND Corporation). @mbohnert on X.

Articles Referenced:

'Putin is becoming entangled in his own discredited red lines' (The Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-is-becoming-entangled-in-his-own-discredited-red-lines/

Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic (The New Yorker) - 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/russias-espionage-war-in-the-arctic

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Day 938.

Today, we report on how the EU has said it will send billions of euros in aid to Ukraine, regardless of US commitment, and we hear from a Ukrainian journalist about her hometown of Odesa. 

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

Viktoriya Kiose (Ukrainian journalist). @KioseViktoriya on X.

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Day 937.

Today, we analyse last weekend's Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference, report on another Ukrainian incursion into Russia, and hear from Central Asia where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is taking his first visit to the region.

Articles Referenced:

Planning for a Post-American NATO (Phillips P. O’Brien and Edward Stringer in Foreign Affairs):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/planning-post-american-nato

Aliona Hlivco on how NATO could come apart (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/29/putin-plot-to-destroy-nato-reaching-its-climax/

Poem by Shelley:

Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory—

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,

Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,

Love itself shall slumber on.

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Day 934.

Today, we consider the crunch talks taking place in Washington over Storm Shadow missiles, the decision by Moscow to suddenly expel British diplomats, and assess Putin’s latest threats to an emboldened West.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. @HamishDBG on X.

David Knowles, journalist who helped make the Telegraph podcast Ukraine: The Latest a runaway success: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/11/david-knowles-telegraph-ukraine-podcaster-died-obituary/

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