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Nov 2023
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Ukraine's top general writes essay on ho...

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Day 615. Today, we bring you the latest updates from Ukraine and dissect the essay written by Ukraine’s top General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, that sets out his view of the full scale war with Russia and how to win it.


Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

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

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

Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander & Telegraph contributor). @HamishDBG on Twitter.


Ukraine’s commander-in-chief on the breakthrough he needs to beat Russia [the Economist]: https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/01/ukraines-commander-in-chief-on-the-breakthrough-he-needs-to-beat-russia


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