China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN attends UN Security Council meeting on Nord Stream Photo: China News Service/China News Service
Today In the Telegraph's Ukraine: The Last podcast, we'll hear China rebuke Russia for killing 52 civilians last week, and we'll be broadcasting the Labor Party conference in Liverpool live.
Podcast host and deputy defense editor Dominic Nicholls tells the story of China's relationship with Russia.
China has blamed Russia for last week's missile attack on a funeral in Ukraine that killed 52 people. Geng Shuang, China's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said Beijing considers the heavy civilian casualties from the attack on the village of Groza «worrying.» '
That was the word he used, «relatively,» which doesn't sound too strong, but in Chinese diplomacy it means a lot. They very rarely speak out publicly against Moscow's message.
Which we saw before when Putin rattled his nuclear saber. But we see such interference very rarely, and of course in a forum like the UN Security Council it is worth noting.
Colin Freeman, foreign correspondent for the Telegraph, joins the podcast on the ground in Ukraine, reporting on the military successes in the south.
Yes, we talked with some servicemen who participated in the operation to capture Klishcheevka, a small place. Probably no more than 500 people.
It took somewhere between two and three months to get it back, which I think gives you a sense of the slow pace of the counter-offensive, that even a tiny village like this could take forever, centuries and centuries. recover.
We often think of Bakhmut as a battle for a small and relatively insignificant place, but this village of Klishcheevka is much smaller than that. And indeed, in the unit that I spoke with, they said that on the night that the flag finally went up, President Zelensky. mentioned them in dispatches in his nightly video message.
Colin continues, noting the fighting situation on the ground and the changing seasons.
The Ukrainians have been fighting here for so long that one commander told me that they are experts in different types of soil. The soil here in Bakhmut is different from the soil in Zaporozhye or near Kherson, and they know exactly what characteristics it will have, when it rains, whether it will liquefy very quickly, how sticky it will be, how much it will liquefy. it will ruin their cars.
Of course, the seasons change here, today we saw the first frost here. You get different answers about exactly what effect the change of seasons will have.
The standard explanation is that once the rains that accompany winter frosts begin, there will be a long period of several weeks of very cloudy weather, when all the fields turn into a quagmire, and the fighting actually stops.
< p>But it depends on what aspect of the military you're asking about. The tank commanders say: “Listen, we can continue, if we want, we can drive through the dirty ground.” Some foot soldiers are saying, «No, this is really slowing us down.»
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David Knowles
David is head of audio development at The Telegraph, where he worked for almost three years. He reported from all over Ukraine during the full-scale invasion.
Dominic Nicholls
Dom is deputy editor (defence) at The Telegraph, having joined in 2018. He previously served in the British Army for 23 years in tank and helicopter units. He had operational deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Francis Dearnley
Francis is assistant comment editor at The Telegraph. Before working as a journalist, he was chief of staff to the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Policy Council in the Houses of Parliament in London. He studied history at Cambridge University and in the podcast reveals how the past sheds light on the latest diplomatic, political and strategic events.
They are also regularly joined by The Telegraph's foreign correspondents around the world, including Joe Barnes(Brussels), Sofia Yang (China), Natalia Vasilyeva (Russia), Roland Oliphant (Senior Reporter) and Colin Freeman (Reporter). Also in London are Venice Rainey (foreign weekend editor), Katie O'Neill (assistant foreign editor) and Verity Bowman(news reporter) ). appear frequently to offer updates.
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