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Sep 2023
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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). @jkjourno on Twitter.

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


With thanks to: Dr Tony Tingle, Programme Director of the Institute for Future Conflict at the US Air Force Academy Retired US Air Force Brigadier David Stillwell


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