The bleak situation for wounded soldiers on the front lines I Ukraine: The Latest, podcast
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- Day 782.
Today, we get political and military updates from Ukraine; the latest on a German spying scandal; and what happens to wounded Ukrainian soldiers?
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.
Asami Terajima (Reporter, The Kyiv Independent). @AsamiTerajima on X.
Articles referenced:
'EU heads meet as Belgian and Czech leaders condemn Russian meddling in elections' (The Guardian)
www.theguardian.com/world/liv...
'Microsoft finds Russian influence operations targeting U.S. election have begun' (Reuters)
www.reuters.com/world/us/micr...
'‘Russian spies’ arrested in Germany attempting to attack weapons deliveries to Ukraine'
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new...
'Intense fighting, lack of resources leave wounded soldiers on their own' (The Kyiv Independent)
kyivindependent.com/unequippe...
One thing that stuck with me is how derided the M113 is in western armies, yet Ukrainians have found it to be exceptional. While there are many weapon systems Western armies are running low on, they have thousands of these things they could give. And that's not even talking about the thousands of M1 Abrams and M2 Bradleys, many of which are considered obsolete just sitting in storage :/
It is very limited, and situational, but on the most part Ukraine is using it in the right situations...
M113 was made to work in almost all terrain and it's pretty easy to fix unless it's totally destroyed
@@thamor4746 it also has no armor against anything higher than small arms which makes it obsolete in modern warfare
@@mussydesign7933 That is true almost with all transport vehicles
"Its no great loss" says Dom on Francis being off 😂 love it. Your awesome Francis.
Yeah, I wish more journalists did summaries and analyses like him. He speaks for ten minutes, I know not just what happened, but also what´s going on in the world. And his emphasis on courage doesn´t hurt, either.
Dom's banter has been on point since I started listening.
Just listening to the tremble in her voice, it made me cry
We can all be saviours of freedom and contribute to containing Russia. For example, by donating to Ukraine24 which funds drone programmes.
She sounds desperate to get the message out.The good people of Earth need to hear this and act. Fighting against evil always needs to be supported. Slava Ukraine!!!
@@TauNomm so the US decides who is the Ukrainian president..and brags about sacking the Ukrainian attorney general...funny kind of freedom Ukraine has
No Dom, we don't have the luxury of waiting a generation for World War III; our opponents have already told us what their intentions truly are. This one is upon us, and we must act.
- only in your overactive imagination, and your MSM ?
Act with the leadership, sorry, technocrats that we have in the West.
Now for Biden, defeat in Ukraine will be an even more epic failure. Russia's initial objective was to get Ukraine to the negotiating table, claim Crimea, and negotiate independent/autonomous Donbass. They succeeded in this. Those negotiations took place by the end of March 2022, after about 5 weeks of fighting.
The US Govt is broke. No surplus in decades. $34 trillion in debt. $214 trillion in unfunded liabilities (without surplus that's debt). The USA is bankrupt nation surviving with money printing. For that reason the world stops trading in USD. Biden fears that Russia will get Ukraine to surrender before November destroying his re-election chances. The US proxy war with over a million dead was totally preventable and Biden rejected peace in 2022. His legacy will be a wrecked Ukraine, the Gaza genocide and a bankrupt US.
The Russians ard coming to rape our wives and daughters grow up it’s pathetic. Zero proof .they don’t even want to take over western Ukraine let alone the world. Ask the MSM for your brain back🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
The mendacity of American politicians cannot be overstated.
Listening from Montana. From my perspective, there was ZERO chance of lethal foreign aid (for any country or interest) passing prior to Iran's attempted strike on Israel. Democracy is what it is so it's silly for journalists / commentators to rail against those politicians who act in ways they don't agree with. Politics in the U.S. was divisive and counter productive long before Russia invaded Ukraine - expecting politicians to act in unison in order to "do the right thing" in support of foreign interests has no precedent in any democracy that I am aware of.
real democacy should come from within a country in Ukraine for example "democracy" just means being controlled by the US
Thanks for your information Glory and Freedom to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦✌️🙏
It’s always the way that we get going when the enemy is at the door. Sort of
no industry or skilled workers, and a generations of politicians and generals that are out of their depth
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I can’t stand this. It’s too little too late. As she says there are too many issues coming together 😔
💙Slava ukraini 💛
Can America not find a way to equip a vehicle with anti drone lasers that could be used as an ambulance?
Russia has anti drone jammers not only on vehicles but infantry level, the west is a generation behind Russia in tech
Now u know Americans are stupid
They used ukranians as a cannon fodder
Right? Apparently, nobody played C&C Generals w/ a Super Weapon general.
Beside the word weasel in the dictionary is a photo of Mike Johnson.
I have been absent from 'Ukraine: The Latest' in the last few weeks -.Hearing your voices again, confirmes, I have missed U guys
What U do 4 Ukraine, U do good. I am sad 2 tell U, that U can not stop, .. we are on 4 the duration
Let's hope that we can properly support our friends this time,
it seems brighter times are ahead, I hope I hope ❤❤
If US citizens actually believe those 2 sources than something is wrong with everyday people's common sense.. completely ridiculous
Why, exactly, do we, the USA, have "global responsibilities"?????
Thanks for your great reporting.
has Russia run out of missies then..? Yeah great reporting
PNAC PROXY PUPPETS
PNAC PROXY WAR
Saying that they will not let someone gives the impression that they have escalatory dominance this only happens in the media nowhere in reality.
❤Ukrainian ❤
How can Ukraine have the ability to shoot down a bomber in Russian Airspace when no other country in the world has such ability? I know the country needs some good news, yet, this is not it . Please be truthful.
Great insight as usual. 👍 Listening from Slovakia ❤
yeah I especially liked the "russia is fighting with shovels" report from last year
The delays and excuses are sickening. Those states have blood on their hands.
We can all be saviours of freedom and contribute to containing Russia. For example, by donating to Ukraine24 which funds drone programmes.
The MAGA wing of the Republican party have blood on their hands.
Specifically Moscow Marjorie Taylor Green, who gets her instructions from Trump.
Absolutely 💯 right
there, of this money, only 17 billion will go to military needs, the rest will go to cover interest on loans. money will not help, because they will not be able to go to the supermarket and buy the missing artillery shells, and what Ukraine was promised a year and a half ago of millions of shells was never fulfilled.
"Ofc David, it's no great loss." lol Dom.
Can't Victoria Nuland do a bank transfer? US full of empty promises.
she’s just, ahem, ‘retired’, maybe ask Blobby Kagan ?
its too late for cookies now
She should go to Chasiv Yar to hand out some of them merican sandwiches :D
The trollbot obsession with Victoria Nuland never ends.
@@ThomasBusby the trrollboy obsession with the 3 day offensive that no Russan ever said never ends
Draft Dodgers in The EU
But why would a Country that has no ammunitions continue to fight when discussing peace costs nothing...😂😂😂
Botnik - Russia wants a piece of Ukraine not peace with Ukraine.
37:42 I really don’t know how Johnson managed to say all that without his nose growing one foot long!! Has the man been in a coma for the last 6 months? The blood on his hands will not wash out so easily 😡
I agree that his hands are stained with Ukrainian blood. May it never wash out! And he knew exactly what he was doing, delaying and blocking the vote just like Trump and Putin said to do.
2024 The 25 year old man went through the meat grinder
2025 The 23 year old man went through the meat grinder
2026 The 21 year old man went through the meat grinder
2027 The 19 year old man went through the meat grinder
2028 The 17 year old Teenager went through the meat grinder
2029 The 15 year old boy went through the meat grinder.
🤔 Kiev's perfect plan
Mike Johnson is a politician. Also being talked down to by a person with a posh British accent does not go down well with Americans. Europe has 60 billion if it wants to. As for the Ukrainian woman one could hear the emotion and desperation in her voice. In such a situation any normal person will feel for her.
- give the Ukrainians an election, or a referendum, so they can communicate their feelings more effectively ?
We can all be saviours of freedom and contribute to containing Russia. For example, by donating to Ukraine24 which funds drone programmes.
@@TauNomm I will stand aside and let others support the cause.
urgh thanks for saying this out loud. I've been seeing so much praise suddenly about Johnson, how he is so brave etc... when he's been holding up the vote since forever! But now suddenly he's the hero? GTFO.
The gathering of losers happens right here. Hope is a hell of a drug.
‘’The bleak situation for wounded soldiers on the front lines’’
Sign Me up!
LMFAO
Erm, just joking. Great recruiting ad bro.😂
Comedy Gold, never disappoints
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Money does not buy combat capable manpower.
But equipment and technologically advanced weapons SAVE LIVES ! 💙💛
@@uma_americares no they dont . They just prolong unnecessary wars
two days of 'much bleakness'...
are we ready to take the hint ?
I smell 👃 Russian trolls 🧌
Unbelievable. Does Mike Johnson REALLY think we Americans, along with our allies, believe a word of what he said about Ukraine aid? What a liar! What's his excuse for waiting so long? Disgusting
Research the Teapot Dome Scandal, 100yrs ago. Lots of us political insight from a few years ago.
Explain to me in simple words how one alliance ally could blow up a gas pipeline that feeds the entire industry to another ally.
PNAC PROXY WAR IS PNAC PROXY WAR
@@lw1zfog 1. The US will withdraw all its troops from Niger. The final dates will be determined after further consultations.
2. US Army military installations in Niger will be transferred to the local military.
3. The United States will maintain an embassy in Niger and continue contacts with the local government.
Accordingly, after some time the United States will lose its largest military base on the African continent in Agadez.
Meanwhile, units of the Russian African Corps have already appeared in Niger.
Next up is Chad.
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The Patriot Pac3 costs from 4 to 6 million PER SHOT. I wonder how selective the Ukrainian's have been about using them.
there's no point fighting against a stronger enemy.... oh wait a minute, its good for private companies like Vanguard, Blackrock, Bae Systems, GKN, Thales etc. Buy shares and prosper
What’s Wagner up to these days? 🤔
@@cherryy7609 pimped out to the highest bidder just like everyone else
@@cherryy7609 Continuing to de-militarise NATO.
Your quotes from OPCW indicate that there is no hard evidence and that they have not even been asked to investigate the chemical allegations. But your presenter blithely comments that there are probably more victims than the hundreds that Ukraine claims. What does he base that on ?
The U.S. and the EU are concerned that Russian forces may punch through Ukrainian defensive lines in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg. Russian troops are continuing to advance thanks to an advantage in ammunition, the agency acknowledged in an article on Thursday. At the same time, Ukrainian forces “struggle because of delays in U.S. and European military aid and personnel shortages,” it added.
Ukraine also faces daily Russian missile, drone and bomb attacks that are knocking out key energy infrastructure and striking military positions, due to its lack of air defenses, according to Bloomberg.
Because of this, “concerns are mounting that Russia may make major gains in the coming weeks by punching through overstretched Ukrainian lines,” sources in the U.S. and Europe told the agency.
Russian precision strikes give no rest to the Ukrainian military in rear regions. The exhausted Ukrainian air defense can no longer effectively repel the constant combined strikes. Despite Kiev’s attempts to blame the Russians for attacks on civilian facilities, the truth is more and more difficult to hide.
On the night of April 18, new wave of Russian strikes hit Ukrainian military and energy facilities in the Kharkiv and Kiev regions.
Explosions were reported in the town of Vishgorod not far from the Ukrainian capital. The target of the attack is yet to be revealed; but the town hosts a large pumped hydroelectric energy storage facility.
While Kiev is threatening Russia with the continuation of ground operations in the border regions, Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian military facilities in the border Kharkiv and Sumy regions. Last night, Russian strikes on Ukrainian manpower and equipment thwarted plans of Ukrainian assault groups to launch attacks in the Russian Belgorod region.
According to local reports, Russian drones and missiles reached targets in the western Ukrainian regions. A military airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk region reportedly came under attack. The facility served as a reserve airfield for the Ukrainian Air Force. During the massive Russian strikes, Ukrainian aircraft are moving there from the neighboring regions. It is also used for repair of military aircraft.
More strikes were reported in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk itself, where a point of temporary military deployment and an ammo depot were destroyed.
Another military airfield struck last night was reportedly the notorious Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnitsk region, which is targeted on a regular basis to prevent the deployment of NATO F-16 fighters there.
Russian attacks in the Ukrainian rear continue around the clock. On April 17, Russian missiles inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainian military, accommodated in a hotel in Chernihiv. Another strike destroyed a lot of Ukrainian servicemen hiding in a school in Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Russia will end up a country of wealthy widows and cripples .
A cut and paste article from another botnik safe in St. Putingrad.
SLAVA ROSIJA ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Pity the poor Ukrainian conscript stuck in the trenches. As your guest on the podcast said a couple of days ago, they are likely to be working class & from rustic communities. They were promised demobilisation if they had served for a long period, but now that glimmer of hope has been cruely snatched away. They will not be benefitting from the money that will be sent from the US Congress to Kiev. The poor blighters are expected to fight to the last man. Any one of them has more courage in their little finger than the much celebrated & well rewarded Ukrainian President & his inner circle. The world is not fair.
- I wonder why half of the population is not rushing out to donate blood ?
@@basiltozer9078 - the AZOV brigades are blocking them from walking away ?
@@sebastianforbes1. Was that comment relayed from FBS headquarters or from Lavorov?
@@georgemcbride7857 - who is Lavorov, and what's the FBS ?
The Telegraph criticizing others for not denouncing over reliance on the us early enough is the type of typical british hypocritical snobbery i tune regularly in for
We can all be saviours of freedom and contribute to containing Russia. For example, by donating to Ukraine24 which funds drone programmes.
Love the freedom and democracy I'm witnessing around Europe currently. Germany shut down a Palestinian conference a few days ago and banned a former Greek finance minister from speaking at it. The Tories have tried to ban flags, ban public speeches, ban protests, Starmer would be no better. Macron, guardian of democracy that he is couldn't get his pension "reforms" through the legislature, so he used an executive diktat to put it on the books. Ukraine is under martial law now and in 2014 the democratically elected government was overthrown by US backed assets. Love the words freedom and democracy as those words transmute themselves in the heads of a 70-year old Telegraph reader who thinks it's 1964.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that the peace formula presented earlier by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is unacceptable for Moscow and stressed that it should be disregarded.
In an interview with Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Govorit Moskva, Lavrov emphasized that Russia does not trust Ukraine's regime regarding peace negotiations, stressing that it is necessary to begin discussing the principles of an agreement on which Moscow is willing to negotiate.
However, the minister ensured that negotiations are always the preferred path. "As [Russian] President [Vladimir Putin] constantly reminds us, we always prefer negotiations to fights and wars," he concluded.
Putin said that now that Ukraine has no ammunition, he will not negotiate peace with it, it would be stupid.
@@0Cico0 That's not what he said, it's a lie. He said he was ready for negotiations, but taking into account the realities of today.
@@burritosls Yes he is ready for negotiations AFTER the "SMO" objectives are completed. Nonsense.
@@0Cico0 No, not really. The goals of SMO must be achieved. BUT they CAN ALSO be achieved through negotiations, without fighting. This will also suit Russia.
@@burritosls And the goals are?
Ukraine is losing. Stop the war.
Now that the aid bill has been passed Zelenskyy can keep building his billionaire bank account and his mates can buy nore €2.5 million mansions in Italy and Spain or get caught trying to enter Poland carrying millions in their car again.
I'm sure the struggling US tax payers will be happy they are funding their lavish lifestyles.
How many Russians have died?
@darrinvaughan8992 Nobody will ever give an exact figure in an ongoing conflict, contact the Russians military comanders and let me know
Why bother they’ve lied everyday
@@1who2what3where4whenfu
@@darrinvaughan8992 so does Ukraine
Zelensky is an embarrassment to the people of Ukraine. No more money and handouts to Ukraine. Glory to Russia and may peace prevail 🇷🇺 🇺🇲
Russian peace = misery
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Let's see some of that pro-Kremlin bs on an account that was created before the Invasion.
Putin is an embarrassment to the people of Russia. No more missiles and arms to Russia. Glory to Ukraine and may peace prevail.
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How many Russians have died?