Day 641.

Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, analyse a suspected assassination attempt on the wife of Ukraine’s military spy chief & discuss a new Ukrainian project 'People of Culture Taken Away by the War’ with friend of the podcast, Dr Sasha Dovzhyk.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

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

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

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

With thanks to Dr Sasha Dovzhyk (Ukrainian Institute Special Projects Curator). @sasha_weirdsley on Twitter.

Read more:

People of Culture Taken Away By The War: https://theukrainians.org/spec/peopleofcultureeng/

Sasha's piece Preserving The Canvas of Culture': https://theukrainians.org/preserving-the-canvas-of-culture/

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Day 640.

Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines and discuss the implications of the dreadful winter storm sweeping across Southern Ukraine, occupied Crimea and Russia.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

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

Tim Sigsworth (Foreign Reporter). @tjsigsworth on Twitter.

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Day 637.

Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, bring you diplomatic and political updates from around the world, and we speak to charity worker Ada Wordsworth who helps villages in Eastern Ukraine recover after occupation and bombardment.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

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

Ada Wordsworth (Director, KHARP Project). @KHARPProject on Twitter and @padochka on Twitter.

Defence in Depth on Napoleon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSeEO01jNNs&t=532s

KHARP Project: https://kharpp.com/

KHARP Updates: https://kharpp.substack.com/

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Day 636.

Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, analyse diplomatic developments as more European countries consider closing their borders with Russia and we hear about life in Kharkiv training Ukrainian troops, as Winter closes in.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

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

Joe Barnes (Brussels Editor). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

Daniel Ridley (Former Ukrainian Marine & Founder of Trident Defence Initiative). @TridentDefUKR on Twitter.

Trident Defence Initiative website: https://tridentdefenseinitiative.com/

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Day 635.

Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines and have a close look at the blasted Donbas town of Avdiivka: the people, the geography and the likely course of the battle there.

Contributors:

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

Maighna Nanu (Foreign Reporter). @Maighna_N on Twitter.

Daniel Hardaker (Front Page Briefing Editor). @danielhardaker4 on Twitter.

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Day 634.

Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines and mark the 10th anniversary of the Maidan protests with somebody who was there.

Contributors:

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

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

Aliona Hlivco (Managing Director at The Henry Jackson Society ). @Aliona_hlivco on Twitter.

With thanks to Kyrylo Beskorovainyi, co-founder of the platform Science at Risk and Yuriy Khalavka, Head of the Department of General Chemistry and Chemistry of Materials, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

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Day 633.

Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontline, including President Zelensky's decision to sack a senior general, and why the EU is still buying Russian gas.

Contributors:

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

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

James Kilner (Editor of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin). @jkjourno on Twitter.

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Day 632. During the Ukraine: the latest team's recent trip to the United States, David Knowles sat down with Dr Leon Aron, writer, historian and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Dr Aron was born in Moscow, and came to the US from the former Soviet Union as a child as a refugee in 1978. In this interview we hear about his research into the cultural development of modern Russia, and look at the transformation of Russian politics and society under Vladimir Putin.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

Dr Leon Aron (Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute). @AronRTTT on Twitter.

Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Uses of War, by Leon Aron: https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/riding-the-tiger/

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Day 630.

Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontline, hear reporting from the ground in Hungary, and interview Mykola Kuleba, Founder of Save Ukraine, that rescues and rehabilitates Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. 

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

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

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

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

With thanks to Mykola Kuleba (Founder of Save Ukraine). @MykolaKuleba on Twitter.

Save Ukraine: https://www.saveukraineua.org/ 

Washington Post investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/11/nordstream-bombing-ukraine-chervinsky/

ISW analysis: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/if-west-cuts-aid-ukraine-russia-will-win-if-west-leans-ukraine-can-win

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Day 629.

Today, we bring you the latest updates from the frontlines, analyse the new British Foreign Secretary’s visit to Kyiv and interview GP Now, a web-based virtual clinic joining Ukrainian doctors and medical professionals to Ukrainians inside the country - including the occupied areas - and around the world.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

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

Maighna Nanu (Foreign Reporter). @Maighna_N on Twitter.

Verity Bowman (Foreign News Reporter). @VerityBowman on Twitter.

Rob Hicken (Head of GP Now). @GPNow_ua on Twitter.

Spencer Cash (Senior Emergency Response Strategist). @spencerbcash on Twitter.

Link to GP Now: https://www.gpnow.net/ukrainian-crisiscare/

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