Massive missile and drone strikes across Ukraine | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

Massive missile and drone strikes across Ukraine | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

I’m David nolles and this is Ukraine the latest today we discussed the latest massive strikes on Ukrainian cities as Russia launches another huge and deadly bombardment we also analyze the scandal in Russia as a nearly naked party outrageous public opinion and the Kremlin bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally

Reward you with victory if we give president zilinsky the tools the ukrainians will finish the job Slava ukraini nobody want to break us we’re strong we’re Ukraine is every weekday afternoon we sit down with leading journalists from the telegraphs London Newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the

Latest news and analysis on the war in Ukraine it’s Tuesday the 2nd of January 1 year and 312 days since the fullscale invasion began and today I’m joined by Foreign reporter Tim sigworth editor of the Central Asia and South Caucasus bulletin James Kilner and our guest calling in live from Kiev is journalist

Culture manager and editor at the ukrainians media badana neborak I started by asking Tim to bring his the latest news from Ukraine thank you David five civilians are dead and almost 100 others have been injured after a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes this morning on Ukraine’s two largest cities strategic

Bombers and Iranian made shahad drones attacked K and KH in the early hours in what was Russia’s third major assault on Ukrainian cities in the last four days Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 35 out of 35 drones that were launched over the country and 73 out of 99 missiles

The missiles included 10 Hypersonic kenzal 70 73 cruise missiles of different types four anti- radar missiles and 12 isander M ballistic missiles now the anti-radar missiles and the ballistic missiles were not shot down but Ukraine says it shot down all of the Hypersonic kinar missiles so during the attack NATO member Poland

Scrambled four F-16 fighter jets to Patrol its airspace as the attacks continued Russia has claimed that it hit all its intended targets and that they were all military but the strikes have injured civilians and damaged clearly non-military areas including a car dealership that was in Gul in flames and

An apartment Block in keev where 49 people were injured civilians were also wounded in the smaller cities of f or Kira Rik a Ukrainian MP who leads the liberal holos opposition party shared images on social media of her her K of Home partially in rubble and her Windows destroyed around 250,000 people are

Estimated to have been left without power and ke in the surrounding region and there’s unsurprisingly been strong reaction to for the strikes zalinski has said that there have now been 170 drones and dozens of missiles fired on Ukraine since New Year’s Eve alone the absolute majority of them he said have targeted

Civilian infrastructure Belling Russian claims to only target military facilities and installations Mr zinsky hailed Ukraine’s Western allies and thanked them for the donated weapons and ammunition which he said is helping to us to strengthen our air Shield every day and night he said this helped save hundreds of lives that

Would have been lost if we didn’t have Patriots and other defense systems his adviser Andrew yach said Russia’s evil attacks overnight will have to be answered for the Russians again hit civilians and residential buildings he wrote on telegram every evil will have to be answered for the United States

Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget a Brink said on X formerly Twitter that it is urgent and critical that Ukraine is supported to stop Putin who she said was ringing in 2024 with Relentless missile and drone attacks on innocent civilians dimitro kouba Ukraine’s foreign minister has urged the West to do five things first

To deliver more anti-air weapons and ammunition and to do so faster than it has done second to deliver drones third to deliver long range missiles with which can reach targets more than 300 kilometers away fourth give Ukraine the 300 billion pound in Russian assets that have been frozen in the west since the

War Began and finally isolate Russian diplomats in their countries and international organizations this morning’s attacks are not the first evidently to strike Ukraine in the past week there’s been a real intensification in Russian air strikes by drones and missiles and on Friday when this started Russia launch it launched its largest aerial assault

On Ukraine since the start of the war killing at least 39 people Ukraine struck back on the city of Bel gorod 20 mi over the border on Saturday in an attack which Russian officials have said killed 25 civilians including five children a Ukrainian Security Source told the BBC that more than 70 drones

Were launched as part of that retaliation and that the deaths in the city were caused by quote the incompetent work of Russian air defense a shrapnel from targets intercepted by Russian air defenses fell on the city bladimir Putin said that Ukraine’s retaliation on belgorod on Saturday would quote not go unpunished and vowed

To intensify air strikes in response although he insisted that only military targets would be attacked yesterday on New Year’s Day Russian forces launched a record number of drones across Ukraine as 90 shahad unmanned aerial Vehicles attacked across the country and although these attacks have been very serious theyve not gone

Entirely to plan for Russia as said earlier Ukraine has inter intercepted a great number of the missiles and drones launched over the over the country and particularly today in the region of VES which borders donet in Ukraine a missile was mistakenly fired on the village of Petr pavlovka which is around 100 miles

From the Ukrainian border the Russian defense Ministry has admitted that a quote abnormal discharge of aircraft ammunition damaged six houses but caused no casualties footage shared by The prominent Russian telegram Channel Baza showed charred debris strewn across streets in the village which appears to have been caused by an errant Russian missile mistakenly

Launched or released on the small village Alexander gusev the Region’s Governor said quote an emergency release of ammunition damaged seven houses not six as defense Ministry said and forced the residents of several streets to be taken to emergency accommodation now the state news a agency ra novosti said an investigation

Was under way into how exactly it happened and it hasn’t been specified what exactly went on it’s not the first time as well that Russian fighter jets have accidentally struck t tet in Russia when on their way to Ukraine now in the past couple of hours Ukraine has retaliated for this

Morning’s attacks with a series of raids on belgorod the city the regional Governor vaslav gladkov has said nine surface to a missiles were fired on the City by Ukrainian forces he says they were shot down by anti-air defenses in two attacks which left two people dead

Left one person dead I beg your pardon and five civilians wounded now these were caused by shrapnel injuries the person who is said to have died was driving a car and an missile exploded close to the car and this comes following a warning earlier from president zalinski that Ukraine would

Respond to Russian Russia’s attacks and would continue to do so making sure Moscow answered for quote every life taken away quote the terrorist state must feel the repercussions of its actions end quot David back to you well thank you very very much Tim for all of

That I know you have to run back to the foreign desk and continue working on the telegraph’s live blog so just so listeners are aware the telegraph runs a live blog on the war every day Tim is running it today so that’s how he’s been

Able to join us to bring us up to date with the latest uh developments thank you very much Tim for your time badana can we go to you it’s really good to hear from you again Tim has just taken us through the news from last night and

This morning can you tell us about your night thank you David I’m glad to be here and to be able to speak to your audience I need to say that uh the night was really very difficult here in Ukraine and the morning also today I met

My friend who is a writer but now he is a military and he told that it was the total apocalypse here in cave so it was one of the deadliest attacks uh on the city and definitely I want to express my gratitude to all those people who were supporting Ukraine because thanks to

Them we right now have the possibility to protect ourselves not uh in ideal way but still if we even try to imagine how it would be if all these missiles will Target their aims it would be totally devastating so that’s like this right now in Kev and can you talk us through a

Little bit what you did last night I mean we’ve been reporting on these missile and trone Strikes now for well for the entirety of the the full scale Invasion but it might be good I think to give our listeners just a sense of what it means when you hear the alarm what

Are your first actions um and what’s the scene in the city this morning it was very difficult because I was on my way to K so I was in train and it was late night when first air rides were in in K and then I understood that there is a

Drone attack and several days before we also had a drone attack which was followed by a missile attack so I understood that probably it would be the same I was on training heading to C and I really followed online how it uh comes how the Rockets are coming uh to

Different regions but many of them were targeting cave and then when I finally got to railway station it was around 8:00 a.m. I was only able to hide in the Metro station and just to wait what comes next and there were several ways of this Rockets coming to the city and

Then I went back to my house which is located in downtown and it was also very difficult because there was at Dey and there was a fire in my neighborhood so unfortunately the air was really dark and we had smoke here because the damage

Was kind of huge but donor Tim told us a little bit about the attacks on New Year’s Eve could you tell us about your new New Year’s Eve how did you spend it I spent it with my close people in the western part of the country but it was

Also a difficult uh New Year because Russians targeted my native city of L which is near the Western border of the country so it was also a deadly attack on leiv but also uh to Odessa and definitely people are trying to hope for the better but right now it is quite

Difficult because we understand how high are the stakes of our survival and we also understand how many resources missiles and drones are ga Ed by Russia and they may use them against us so it is very very difficult to have kind of regular New Year Eve because it is very

Difficult to plan anything we are just without this opportunity but on a previously on the podcast you’ve spoken about the Ukrainian Cultural scene it’s what you work in um how is that scene reacting and responding to the events of the past few weeks what are you seeing uh yeah uh I canot

Say that uh we have a very direct response right now of course there are people who write opats or essays and they inform the world how it is for example to be a Ukrainian artist Ukrainian writer right now in kave in Odessa in harv or in L people try to go

On people still try to plan something but I would like to say a couple of words about recent books that have been published and maybe some recent literary awards words and fortunately uh in December we were able to follow how several literary awards were granted for essayism for fiction for non-fiction and

So on and there is one book of really prominent importance I would love to point your attention to it is the book called the language of War by Alexander mad it will be published in 2024 in June by alen Lane it is the imprint of penguin random house and it is a great

Book of essayism and commentaries uh about what happens when your world changes overnight and uh how the writer who joined the military accepts these changes and how he commends to these changes I think that a lot of changes are very very difficult to explain to foreigners because you might be empathetic towards

Us but still you won’t understand what we live in if you don’t come here when you don’t try to experience this and I really believe that this book by Alexandra is a very very good one to try to understand us better but I need to say that so many Ukrainian writers uh

Right now are making some documentation they write reportage they make documentary films and also for example we have very fresh book about the city of bahmut uh you probably remember that time of the previous New Year of 2023 when Wagner troops were trying to get into the City

And it is a book of stories of those people who were defending bmud but also about the civilians from the city and there is also the second part of aism telling us the Multicultural and uh European story of this city from the east of Ukraine it was published by

Ukraine publishing house and it is written by maros laav luk well thank you for for sharing that b Anna just one last question from me that I know I think James has one as well but looking ahead to 2024 what are you hoping for personally but also professionally what what’s changing in

Your sphere I don’t don’t think that I will be very specific in this because I just want to say the same things that our Minister of Foreign Affairs collaba tells that it’s like that we really need additional air defense systems we need much weapons to Ukraine and we uh need

The decision to transfer Frozen Russian assets for the needs of Ukraine and it is very obvious but when speaking personally and professionally what I really really hope is uh to to witness the deconstruction of the uh different myth we have around Ukraine but also around Russia because we will

Have the 10th anniversary of this war we will be two years already in the full war and I just hope that the first shock that comes when you understand that there is a big country and it is quite close to you and there is full War there

And there is war crimes there and so on that you want to discover the real stories from this country that you want to discover its history that you want to discover its culture and that’s what I wish to myself but also to all people who really wonder what contemporary Ukraine

Is but Donna thank you so much James I know you have one quick question I was just wondering whether most ukrainians were watching as zin’s New Year’s Eve address and what their reaction was to it thank you James of course it is very difficult for me to speak for all the

Ukrainians but I suppose that many of them were watching this speech and I can say about my close people and my family What affected them really and I think that they were affected with this part about European integration because it is the thing that so many people who are

Close to me who work together with me or my relatives they were in different way working on this as an idea for all their life and that really mattered uh to them so I think that many many people were following but I also need to say that it

Is very very difficult right now to keep um high and good mood uh of course we uh hope and work for the best because I think that it is kind of feature of adulthood like you understand that you are at War and your country is at War

And the adult decision would be support of your military of your Society of your close people but I also need to emphasize that these times are really very very difficult and Ukraine needs a lot of support now and not only Ukraine as such but also ukrainians so I just

Want one more time to say thank you to all people who support Ukraine in different ways BNA thank you so much for joining us we’ll come back to you for a final thought if You’ like but let’s first go to James James Happy New Year to you

Thank you so much for coming on today um you’ve been doing quite a lot of reporting over the past few weeks what have you been looking at hi David Happy New Year I hope you had a good time up in Isa uh yes I’ve been doing I’ve been

Holding the fort so speak since Boxing Day wasn’t working yesterday so I just want to the first thing I want to do is just comment slightly on um on uh Tim’s Tim’s news briefing and what we’ve seen is a is definitely an uptick in this terrible violence in in in Ukraine these

Missile attacks and drone attacks on Ukraine and also this um alleged Ukrainian attack on the city of belgrod which is about 30 miles north of the um Ukrainian border uh 50 miles north of HEV um I I think for your listeners David the really important thing to

Remember is that this is coming uh really just as Putin kicks off his presidential campaign if you remember there’s a presidential election slated for the middle of March in Russia and Putin officially s launched his campaign a couple of weeks ago and he’s very much campaigning on this sort of on sort of

Stability ticket his his if if if I mean everyone who’s listening to this podcast remember that his initial ambition for for Ukraine was to capture the country in a week or two and really not bother with me Russians that obviously engag the plan amazing resistance from ukrainians uh and support from the West

Etc undermine that but he very much feels and we’ve been talking about this a lot on the podcast that he now has the advantage in terms of weapons in terms of economic capacity in terms of Manpower Etc and he feels like he’s on the front foot and this has allowed him

In the buildup to to this election to campaign on stability ticket now at the same time uh since Boxing Day we’ve seen a massive increase in violence first with the sinking of a of a Russian war trip in in occupied Ukraine occupi crime uh and then ret the the anticipated

Retaliation from the Kremlin uh and then again this alleged um shelling or missile stroke on belg which I’m going I’ll come back to in a minute and then again the retaliation for that now this alleged Ukrainian missile strike or shelling of belgrod is really really important for the context of War because

It is the most serious loss of life in Russia since the start of obviously that doesn’t compare to what the Ukraine is going through but for Putin this is critical because once again it undermines his presidential platform that he is the candidate of stability he’s he is the the strong man who’s not

Going to bother ordinary Russians how can he get away continuing to say that when 24 25 only Russians apparently have been killed in the center of a of a of a relatively large city so what and and obviously since then we’ve had these terrible retaliation attacks on har and

And Kev mainly but but across the country uh and I think this is the key point and bodana will please chip in if you disagree or you want to comment but I think we may see agend rise in violence from possibly from both sides while this presidential election is is

Is is playing out I think the ukrainians will try to keep try will keep trying to undermine this sort of message of stability that Putin wants to give out and he will respond with with retaliatory attacks circling back to this the these attacks on belgrod on um on Saturday

Lunchtime I had to look through the videos of the attacks it’s always a difficult and disturbing thing to be doing when you watching dead bodies Etc but what I was struck although struck by although the Russians said that these were missile attacks from Ukraine I actually didn’t see any

Crators any missile crators any sort of damage that I would attribute to a missile strike uh I’m I’m in no way an arms expert Etc but I’ve just had to learn on the job so to speak in the last couple of years watching countless videos of this sort of stuff I did see

Dead bodies so so I don’t doubt that several people were killed and I did see uh burnings and flames and and cars and debris Etc but I didn’t see the sort of massive structural damage that I would normally attribute to missile stri strikes and later that day in harv we

Saw the main the biggest hotel that hit by a missile strike clearly incredibly badly damaged so I think that’s also really important to to bear in mind we know that ukrainians blamed the initially they tried to say that they never they didn’t attack belr at all and

More recently and they said that the deaths were linked to a stray Russian missile since then they’ve rode back a bit and they’ve said actually we did attack it with a lot of drones and it was the incompetant of the Russian a defense systems which shot down the

Drones and then the debris killed all sorts of people on the ground the truth is somewhere somewhere out there and um I wouldn’t want to speculate who’s right and who’s wrong but they they my hypothesis is based on looking at video evidence from from the uh from Central belgrod on Saturday lunchtime fast

Forward to yesterday so New Year’s Day Putin made a a very important point on New Year’s Day of going to visit both injured Russian soldiers in hospital and handing out medals to Russian soldiers who have done heroic or supposedly right things Etc on the battlefield he is as I

Was trying to say as I was saying he is is making stability the center of his presidential campaign but at the same time he has to keep saluting the soldiers and and keep the war effort momentum going forward and neither of these incidences were particularly surprising except for a couple of things

Which again I I just quite like to take a couple of minutes time to highlight firstly they came within 12 hours of Putin’s New Year’s Eve address which was very stayed especially by comparison to the pre to to a year earlier so New Year’s eve two days ago he made the

Video on on the wars of the Kremlin all by himself and he and he spoke about family values and traditional Russian values that sort of thing and a relatively short address this was clearly his election pitch he didn’t mention the war he did say the soldiers were heres but he didn’t mention Ukraine

Didn’t mention the war he didn’t mention the Special Operation the previous year he’d been surrounded by army guys or soldiers and he’d been saluting their heroism and been much more militaristic in style so again that toning down um only to ramp it back up the next day

With his visits to the hospital and and handing out menal Soldiers the second thing I’d like to say David is that on his when he was in the hospital talking to the injured soldiers he did something like I’ve not heard quite this sort of language before he talked about Russia

Having this strategic initiative in Ukraine now previously he’s spoken about the war in slightly abstract terms and he he’s been careful not to he’s been careful to betray Russian forces as Resolute and definitely not on the defensive as they had been a year ago but it hasn’t been to to my knowledge

Bold enough to say that they’re on the you know they’re on the uh they’ve got this strategic initiative uh we’re going to win this he has said that his his aims are still fully maximalist he still wants to capture Ukraine but again I think um this statement yesterday was

Really important and um it again highlighted just how confident Putin is is feeling thank you very much James for taking us through some of your thoughts over the past few weeks then can we just talk about another couple of stories before we go to our final thoughts there

Was a scandal in Russia that you’ve been looking at the almost naked party what was it and what was the Fallout so this almost naked party on December 20th in a nightclub in in Moscow was was really it involved some of the top socialites pop stars TV stars

TV presenters rappers whatever that that are still living in Moscow I think I saw about a thousand people went the theme it was organized by um a very high-profile instagrammer sltv presenter who sent out the um the invite saying this Christmas party you got to got to

Turn up Nearly Naked that was the theme and so people did turn up in women and lingerie one rapper turn up just wearing a sock strategically positioned sock others were were wearing mesh tops and and BDSM gear on on them Etc is sort of the sort of the sort of thing that would

Have been the norm in many ways in the more crazy hedonistic Moscow days of Law and would have been accepted and would have been part of the scene and would have been accepted that’s the really important thing this time there was a huge backlash and when when all these celebrities socialized posted these

Photos and video from this event on their Instagram feeds and ve feeds Etc there was a massive backlash criminal propagandists were saying how can these people be holding such an extravagant party when our soldiers are died on the front line all new Russians were annoyed people were saying this is clearly some

Sort of decadent Pro West uh loose lifestyle uh whereas the rest of the country is suffering these the these Moscow Elite are getting away with it and essentially they fell foul of these new unwritten austerity rules that Putin is putting into place in the last year

Or so where he wants Russia to be a country at War to have their their BS against the wall to be for there to be no fund for wartime austerity to really be front and center as as we discussed at length he’s reorientated the economy inflation is booming etc etc etc and yet

Here you have celebs who are are partying at the same time he’s also Outlaw he’s effectively made gay rights illegal and I mean in in in the sort of gay not so much illegal but it sort of there’s a gray aim but effectively new laws which came in at the end of last

Year have allowed Russian police to raid gay nightclubs and arrest people and charge them with promoting gay propaganda earlier last year police also raided a series of nightclubs in spurg and Moscow and arrested people that they thought were too Pro West so they’re very wary of this party scene in Moscow

Piz B which they think and they believe has a sort of more Pro West and bent than they’re happy with so essentially after these celebrities had their massive Christmas party on December 20th they have been cancelled one of them has been thrown in prison pring gay propaganda and the nightclub has been

Shut down it has been an extraordinary severe um reaction from the authorities apparently with Putin’s consent basically to shut down this sort of behavior it’s really really insightful David into how Russian Society has changed since the war and how whereas this sort of behavior was acceptable and

Quite enjoyed is it in a veristic way now it is uh unacceptable we need austerity we need wartime feeling uh this is a country in a wartime mode for the long run thank you very much James I don’t know if you’ve got a final thought James but maybe we’ll do maybe you’ll

Talk about the Stalin centers then but let’s go to badana first badana thank you so much for staying with us thank you so much for joining us from Kev this morning thank you for sharing your experience what are your final thoughts today thank you so much David and thanks James for

Your thoughts and ideas I have just several comments and I think that we cannot really speak about the increased level of violence after what we went witnessed uh in Ukraine during this two years but it is of course something different that happens in belgaro but also I think that it is very important

That we don’t really have access of the international experts to access what happened really there and I’m more than sure that Russia will do cruel things towards its own people and Society to fulfill some of Putin’s selection aims so we just cannot think about Russia on our terms and ideas of how Society

Operates and how government serves its Society because very frequently we do this mistake we try to think about for example human rights or human dignity or for example the idea that government serves its people but that’s probably not what happens in Russia and uh it is very important to remember when we try

To explain what happens there thank you so much thank you so much badon uh thank you for joining us and we hope we have a a better afternoon and you stay safe uh James killner would you like to share your final thoughts I think very good points there

Bon absolutely we can we can only do our best I think it’s important to keep trying there on the uh so really quickly David you’ve asked me to talk about these staling centers again I’m going to stray into trying to understand what’s going on in Russia and I I’ll do it very

Quickly before I I I move on something I think is really important has been really missed by the international media at least it’s probably been more heavily covered in Ukraine but it’ be interesting to know what bodana thinks about it she has time but on the staring

Centers I reported it was I wrot this St up a couple of a week or so ago as ahead of the Christmas period on these staring centers which are popped up in major cities around Russia um it’s really a continuation of a of a trend under Putin

To try and rejuvenate the the reputation of one of the 20th Century’s biggest Mass murderers what I mean um statues have popped up under under under Putin of Stalin and this is a project a Communist Party project but it’s been given the ND by the Kremlin uh in many ways

Um and and the idea is really to to steal ordinary Russians um to steal them for a long war and one of the easiest ways of doing that is to promote Stalin who obviously was instrumental in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II so lots of parallels Putin wants to draw lots of

Parallels with his supposed aim War aim of trying to defeat Nazis in Ukraine and what Stalin was doing in the 1940s make of that what he will is obviously um um completely crazy project but it but but it is it is happening is important to understand it has been

Going for a while it’s sped up under since the war in Ukraine the the other point I’d really like to make for your listeners David is I want to take him to Georgia really quickly where b b ianes the Billy now wealthiest guy in Georgia had said

He’s returning to politics he said there Years Eve this is this is important because he set up this Georgian Dream political party in 2011 uh eventually won an election in 2012 served the year as a prime minister and then Ste back and and briefly came back as a chairman

Since then but he said he needs to come back to protect his georgean dream government from uh human Temptation and and he sort of eluded it was a very convoluted speech when he sort of eluded to to sort of the collapse of the opposition and potential corruption

Issues but that’s not how analy and that’s not how I say it either and this is the important bit this guy ban he made all his money he made his billions in Russia in the 1990s is considered a proin pro Russia uh billionaire who controls the government Georgia has

Improved its relations with the Kremlin since the war in since the kremlin’s fullscale invasion of of of Ukraine and this despite Georgia fighting its own war against Russia in 2008 and earlier in December been given candidate membership status by the EU so there’s a lot going on in Georgia we have the

Return or Frontline politics of the wealthiest person in in in the country who’s becoming the chairman of the ruling georan dream political part again we know that he’s he’s Pro Kremlin and although anist and obvious say he pays lip service to Georgia’s aspirations to join the EU the feeling is very much

That he’s going to continue to push Georgia which in many ways should be a natural Ally for Ukraine towards the Kremlin so really important story there for everyone to keep an eye Ukraine the latest is an original podcast from the telegraph to stay on top of all of our Ukraine news analysis

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