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Sep 2024
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Ukraine attack on Russian missile depot ...

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Day 939.

Today, we discuss an enormous explosion as Kyiv strikes a Russian military depot, hear about Moscow’s hybrid war in the Arctic, and receive an update on the state of the Kursk operation and the munitions race.



Contributors:

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

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

Michael Bohnert (Engineer at RAND Corporation). @mbohnert on X.



Articles Referenced:


'Putin is becoming entangled in his own discredited red lines' (The Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-is-becoming-entangled-in-his-own-discredited-red-lines/


Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic (The New Yorker) 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/russias-espionage-war-in-the-arctic



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