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Apr 2024
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Day 783.

Today, we bring you news from across the battlefront, bring you political and diplomatic updates and we speak to historian Sergey Radchenko about the intense diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia in the early months of the full-scale invasion.


Contributors:

David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.

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

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

With thanks to Sergey Radchenko, Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at The Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. @DrRadchenko on X.


Articles referenced:


'Arrest over Russian plot to assassinate Volodymyr Zelensky' (Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/19/russian-plot-assassinate-zelensky-arrest/


'After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help' (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68843542


'Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead' (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68819853


The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine


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