Day 574. Today, we discuss the mysterious death of British volunteers in Ukraine and explore allegations of systematic torture. Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Colin Freeman (Foreign Reporter). @colinfreeman99 on Twitter. Alice J Edwards (UN Special Rapporteur Torture) @DrAliceJEdwards on Twitter. Read Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion, by Colin Freeman: https://www.telegraph.co.uk...
Sep 22, 2023•50 min
Day 573. Today we bring you updates from the battlefront, analyse events this week in New York at the UN and discuss quite why Ukraine has asked Germany not to send any more tanks. Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Regiment Commander & Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Weapons Expert). @HamishDBG on Twitter. With thanks to Brigadier General John Reim and Chris Grassano from Picatinny Arsenal. Watch...
Sep 21, 2023•55 min
Day 572. Today, we bring you updates from the battlefront, hear more live from the UN, and analyse what’s happening in Nagorno-Karabakh. Plus, David speaks to Joe Webster of the Atlantic Council about ball bearings and tanks… Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. James Kilner (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. With thanks to Joe Webster, Senior Fellow spec...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Day 572. Today, we bring you updates from the battlefront, discuss the use of decoys by Ukrainian forces & we interview Karolina Hird from the Institute for the Study of War. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. With thanks to Karolina Hird, Russia Deputy Team Lead ...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr
Day 571. Today, we bring you updates from the battlefront, discuss the state of Ukrainian football in the full scale invasion. Plus Dom Nicholls interviews friend of the podcast John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, about hope in war. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @jkjourno on Twitter. With thanks to: Romann Tymotsko @Karp...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Today, we bring you a special installment recorded at the British Embassy in Washington DC. You can watch the podcast recording here: https://youtu.be/3ADDWhkEJ6Q Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Our guests: Dr Kimberly Kagan, the president of the Institute for the Study of War. @TheStudyofWar on Twitter. Eliot Cohen, a polit...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Day 568. Today, we bring you updates from the battlefront. Plus, Dom Nicholls interviews White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, and David Knowles speaks to Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank, Roman Kachur. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Valerie Browne (Senior Video News Producer). @valeriebr...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Day 567. Today, we bring you the latest from the frontlines in Ukraine, analyse political and diplomatic developments from around the world, and Francis Dearnley sits down with Senator Mitt Romney for an exclusive interview - the first since Romney announced he will not seek re-election. Watch the full interview with Senator Mitt Romney here: https://youtu.be/Ptl8qlsvf3s Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twi...
Sep 14, 2023•51 min
Day 566. Today, we bring the latest updates from Ukraine and discuss the meeting between Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong-un. Plus, the team speaks to Senior Analyst and the Russia Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, Mason Clark. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @j...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Day 565 . Today, we report on the latest updates from the front lines and discuss Kim Jong-un's visit to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin. Plus, in the first of the interviews from our trip to the United States, Dom Nicholls heads to the Boulder Crest Foundation, a veterans and first responders rehabilitation and wellness organisation. There he speaks to Josh Goldberg from the foundation, and Olena Bidovanets, a mental health practitioner from Ukraine, about mental health, stress and resilience, bo...
Sep 12, 2023•58 min
Day 564 . Today, the team call in from Washington DC, Colorado, London, and Kyiv, bringing you the latest updates from the battlefront, analysing Russia’s local elections and - later - lessons from the air war in Ukraine with figures from the US military. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). ...
Sep 11, 2023•54 min
Day 562: Bonus. General David Petraeus is one of America’s most famous soldiers in the modern era, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan before a year in charge of the CIA. The Telegraph’s Ukraine: The Latest podcast team interviewed Patraeus about his views on the war in Ukraine. He spoke about the Ukrainian counter-offensive, arms deliveries, western support, what the invasion means for the future of warfare and how western foreign policy has changed in the shadow of Iraq. Contributors: David Knowle...
Sep 09, 2023•55 min
Day 561. Today, we bring you updates from the front lines, analyse the continuing strikes on Ukrainian ports in the region south-west of Odesa, and hear from our Senior Foreign Correspondent Roland Oliphant who’s on the ground in Ukraine. Watch "Kidnappings and ghost towns on China’s Belt and Road: 10 years of Xi Jinping’s masterplan" here or paste the link into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhNnsvhyPY Watch Francis' video episode of Defence in Depth on 'Putin's Top 3 Lies: from...
Sep 08, 2023•46 min
Day 560. Today, we bring you updates from the front lines, analyse the continuing strikes on Ukrainian ports in the region south-west of Odesa, and hear from our senior Foreign Correspondent Roland Oliphant who was on the ground in Izmail, Ukraine. Francis' video episode of Defence in Depth on 'Putin's Top 3 Lies: from WWII to modern Ukraine' can be found here : https://youtu.be/_mdvqJy-zVk?si=Ky8-NpSdhD6bDMhG Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associa...
Sep 07, 2023•42 min
Day 559. Today, we analyse updates from the front lines, bring you the latest diplomatic news around the world and discuss Ukraine gets tough on medical exemptions from military duty. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Subscribe to The Telegraph : telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest Email: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk You can vote f...
Sep 06, 2023•45 min
Day 558. Today, Russian forces score a hit on a British Challenger 2 tank, we analyse leaked reports that Kim Jong-un may travel to Russia and Roland Oliphant is on the ground in Odesa. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter. Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on Twitter. Nicola Smith (Asia Correspondent). @niccijsmith on Twitter. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander...
Sep 05, 2023•40 min
Day 557. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines, discuss the sacking of Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov and we analyse the recent Ukrainian assault on the village of Verbove. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @JKJourno on Twitter. Aliona Hvlicvo (Managing Director at The...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Day 554. Today, we bring you the latest news from the battlefront, discuss the announcement that BAE systems will explore local manufacturing and direct deals with the Ukrainian army, and we analyse tank warfare and some surprising statistics in the full-scale invasion. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Howard Mustoe (Industry Editor). @MustReadMustoe on Twitter. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former T...
Sep 01, 2023•53 min
Day 553. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines, discuss the appointment of Grant Shapps as the new British Defence Secretary & analyse Ukrainian drone warfare. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter. Genevieve Holl-Allen (Politics Reporter). @genevieve_holl on Twitter. Marcel Plichta (Former analyst at the U.S. Department o...
Aug 31, 2023•45 min
Day 552. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines, analyse the impact of drone strikes on Russia and ask why the British Foreign Secretary is heading to China. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter. Read Russia hit by largest drone attack of the wa...
Aug 30, 2023•51 min
Day 551. Today , we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, analyse the Ukrainian liberation of Robotyne and look at the Ukraine policies of Republican politicians as the race for the Republican nomination starts to heat up. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @JKJourno on Twitter. Tony...
Aug 29, 2023•48 min
Please note: Today is a national Bank Holiday in the UK. Our regular programming will return tomorrow. Day 550. The history of Ukraine and Russia is a subject that has come up again and again on this podcast. Good history and ‘bad’ history underpin how all of us understand the origins, reasons and justifications for the ongoing full-scale invasion. One guiding light is Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy: professor of Ukrainian history and Director at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard Un...
Aug 28, 2023•51 min
Day 547. Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, analyse the continuing fallout after the apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and discuss the secret trade routes helping Putin dodge Western sanctions. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Melissa Lawford (Economics Reporter). Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander & Telegraph contributor). @HamishDBG on Twitter. Relevant links: De...
Aug 25, 2023•49 min
Day 546. Today, we react to the extraordinary - but perhaps not unexpected - news of Yevgeny Prigozhin's death and analyse what the future might hold for the Wagner group. Plus, we delve into news that Norway is set to donate F-16s to the war effort, Ukrainian claims to have retaken Robotyne, and Russian missile strikes that continue across the country. Later, Spectator journalist Svitlana Morenets joins the panel to discuss her investigation into Kyiv's faltering medical care for soldiers. Cont...
Aug 24, 2023•58 min
Day 545 . Note: This episode was recorded before reports of Prigozhin's death. Today, we bring you news from across Ukraine, analyse a new British plan to aid Ukraine’s energy sector through the winter, and discuss Elon Musk’s star link satellites and the billionaire’s unpredictable influence on the invasion. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitt...
Aug 23, 2023•43 min
Day 544 . Today, we analyse the heavy fighting in Robotyne as Ukrainian forces advance, discuss Russian tank tactics, and explore how the West smashed Russia's deep-cover spy networks. Contributors: David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter. Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former NATO T...
Aug 22, 2023•56 min
Day 543 . Today, we bring you the latest updates from the battlefront, analyse the vital decision over the weekend to send fighter planes to Ukraine, and interview Former NASA Astronaut and test fighter pilot, Terry Virts. He speaks about his experience working with Russian cosmonauts, the moment he saw the 2014 war break out from space, and the West’s strategic thinking regarding Ukraine. Plus, we update listeners on our plans for the US trip, and how the podcast team has been sanctioned by the...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Day 540 . Today, we discuss a drone strike close to the Kremlin, how a Russian commander says Putin won’t defeat Ukraine in the near term and should seek a ‘truce’ and how another 400 Ukrainian children have been sent to so-called summer camps in Russia in recent weeks for ‘patriotic training’. Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Henry Samuel (Paris Correspondent). @H_E_Samuel on Twitter . Jordana Seal (Telegraph Reporter). Subscribe to The ...
Aug 18, 2023•39 min
Day 539 . Today, we discuss an array of stories: from the fallout of Kyiv’s recapture of Urozhaine, sightings of modified British Challenger 2 tanks on the frontline, and the long term implications of the largely forgotten Russo-Georgian War, which took place 15 years ago last week. Contributors: Francis Dearnley (Host, Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter. James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @JKJourno on T...
Aug 17, 2023•49 min
Day 538 . Today, we discuss developments in the humanitarian grain corridor in the Black Sea, movements in the alleged Russian spy-ring in the UK, and how Russia & Iran might be circumventing sanctions by using the Caspian Sea. Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter. Francis Dearnley (Host, Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter. Elizabeth Braw (Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute). @elisabethbraw on Twitter....
Aug 16, 2023•44 min
