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Sep 2022
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Understanding Ukrainian strategy, a firs...

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Day 203.

Today, we analyse the tactics Ukraine used to break the Russian lines in the east; look at what Ukrainian troops and journalists are finding in the liberated territories; and finally we discuss something that’s been on the edge of conversations for many months now: nuclear weapons.


Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22.

Dom Nicholls (Defence & Security Editor). Follow Dom on Twitter @DomNicholls.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). Follow Roland on Twitter @RolandOliphant.

Dr Mike Martin (Writer and visiting fellow at Kings War Studies).

Alina Polyakova (Managing Editor Ukrainska Pravda).


Email: podcasts@telegraph.co.uk


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