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Day 1,055

Today, as Kyiv captures its first North Korean soldiers alive, we return to the pivotal question of the Russian economy's fragility and later speak to Ukrainian actors who have recreated their own experience of the war.

Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Content Referenced:
Ukraine captures North Korean troops and takes them to Kyiv for questioning (The Telegraph):

North Korean diary reveals use of horrific tactic in Ukraine war (The Telegraph):

Boris Johnson brands Vladimir Putin a ‘f------ idiot’ over imperial ambitions (The Telegraph):

British troops ‘should join post-war peacekeeping force in Ukraine’ (The Telegraph):

Russia’s Hidden War Debt (Craig Kennedy):

Biden admin imposes harsh sanctions on Russian oil industry (CNN):

US Companies Pay Over $1 Billion in Taxes to Russia Amid Ongoing Ukraine War (Newsweek):

Mariupol Drama in Manchester:

[martavdz]

11:20 Whatever Johnson's faults, he's right in this case. The Baltic countries were either independent, or belonged to Vatican, Poland or Sweden for most of their history, and Latvia and Estonia had German-speaking aristocracy. They have a long history of nature-oriented paganism, Catholicism and Protestantism. Unlike Russia, they have medieval stone castles and typical European architecture. And Latvia has just won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Picture, and there's zero Russian culture or mindset in that movie (it's called Flow and it's a very Nordic/nature kind of thing). Those worlds just aren't compatible.

[ElectroCurmudgeon]

great interview with the actress
your work is very important to getting the word out.
Bless Ukraine and Bless the AFU
My heart is breaking for the peaceful people of Ukraine.
May Ukraine have all defense systems to protect itself possible

[daitallon]

Day 1055.... Still lives being lost, .... still Russia pushes....still we do nothing....
God bless Ukraine

[Depipro]

I'd say Ireland's President's remarks are at least slightly inappropriate, though my information may be slightly outdated as well. I'm not 100% sure if this is still the case, but Ireland used to be known as a tax haven within the EU (next to, sadly, my own country, The Netherlands). I'm of the firm belief that the strongest shoulders should carry the heaviest burdens (a traditional phrase of the Dutch centre-left). Without tax havens, we could up our defence budget (something I am not personally happy about, but I do see as a dire necessity under the circumstances), not at the cost of education and medical care (which, by the way, have been thoroughly hollowed out in my country both under Mark Rutte and his predecessors already), but at the cost of CEOs' private swimming pools and space projects.

[mindblowen]

I admire this woman and her colleges so much 😢. How they can even talk without breaking down, is a testa ment to God's love ❤❤❤❤

[RobertElliott-rlks]

Despite his political Domestic faults, Boris Johnson is 1, 000% correct about Ukraine!!

[misterborak]

Dear Vatniks, official line is:

these are not North Koreans but Mongols. Not captured but stolen. And not fighting to liberate Russia (lol), but trying to settled down in one of russian village as locals.

[KevinBrady-fycx]

Europe should be meaningfully handing its own defence. Aasistance from the US is great, but what ahould we be bejolden completely to America??

[JudithBlair-oq]

Has the Mariupol theatre company filmed its production to make it widely available?
If a theatre wishes to put on the play, how would they look into it?

[bodyfreesail]

Boris Johnson & Trump: "The EU needs to spend more in defense for this war, specially Germany. US cannot finance the war alone." Expenditure

EU: 0.51% of GDP
Germany: 0.42% of GDP
US: 0.42% of GDP
UK: 0.11% of GDP

Just bringing some context.

Please keep up the good work, but fact-checking or contextualizing voices that continue portraying the EU as lazy or a coward regarding the war would be appreciated.

I know some comments are going to say this is a European war and it makes sense they spend way more... and that is OK if we think of the 19th century world where Internet, globalization and airplanes did not exist and distance did matter dramatically.

[tmcb]

Featuring words of Boris-the-Liar only diminishes this otherwise excellent podcast.

[jaymacpherson]

President Higgins lives in a country with currently privileged geography, as does the US. Ireland deserves protection, should that become necessary, as a belligerent overtaking the country would affect NATO countries, unless it is Scotland invading. President Higgins is both out-of-order AND out of touch in that he misunderstands the sequence of events (the order) and implications of those events (no touch…as in deaf, dumb, and blind to an unfolding world war) as well as in denial of Ireland’s ethical obligation to spend on protection from belligerent authoritarian countries at an international level.

[csmiller]

Have the Ukrainians reached out to South Korea for help in debriefing North Korean POWs?

[phoenixzappa]

238 years and 14, 000 days since the full scale ....

[cskarbek]

the Irish PM's comments hopefully don't reflect the rest of the country's feelings about and toward Ukraine... not the Ireland, I know anyway...

[FenrirFury]

The Ukrainian drones were destroyed or intercepted by their targets.

[marchale]

It would be utterly foolish to put troops from other countries into Ukraine. This would absolutely escalate the situation.

[IvaTaiwan-uz]

Civil war broke out in UK 🇬🇧 already 😢😢😢

[sebastianguinness]

Gradually then suddenly (as Mike said when asked how he went bankrupt ) is how one hopes the Russian economy collapses.

[EstradaPablo]

All NATO weapons and money .... and Ukraine still loosing