Ukraine repels massive Russian assault & controversy over Russian athletes at Paris Olympics

Day 884.

Today, a new mechanised push is repelled in Donbas, Ukraine claims to have pushed the last Russian ship out of the sea of Azov, and we hear about the controversy surrounding Russian and Belarusian athletes due to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics under a neutral flag.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.

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

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

Wayne Jordash KC, (President of Global Rights Compliance.). @WayneJordash on X.

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[APW-ryok]

The UN voted years ago that was the time to enforce the 1994 memo Russia signed, closing the skies above Ukraine etc. This do very little strategy whilst Ukraine is turned into a wasteland is disgusting, we have learned next to nothing after Hitler tried the same thing in WW2. We are sadly lacking in leaders with spines and a moral compass.

[WingPotato]

It will always be harder for Ukraine because of their greater value for human life.

[richardmarsden]

Syrsky pointed out that Russia started it's 'full-scale' invasion of Ukraine with just 100, 000 ground forces, it is now over 520, 000 (50, 000 greater in number than the entire active U.S. Army) and predicted to be just shy of 700, 000 by years end.

[superflyguy]

Russia can offer whatever wages it wants, its unlikely it will ever pay that annual salary out completely

[siprus]

I think western countries are having bit wrong approch the ukraine war. Western countries believed that it's sufficient to show our resolve to support ukraine and Russia would back from war due to how costly it is both in manpower, economy and military stockpiles. But this is where west had miscalculated. Russia is willing to continue the war no matter the cost as long as it's able to. For Putin giving up the war would symbolically be giving up on Russia as a great power and losing the war would be seen as his failure.

Russia will continue the war no matter the cost for as long as it's able to and unfortunately Russians are willingly to suffer great deal before demanding political change. Maybe they'll eventually revolt, but it's not something western countries can rely on. While the war is definetly taking heavy toll on Russia, Russia is country with such vast resources and manpower that even just war-stretched domestic production is able to keep the war going for long time and that is going to be very costly for Ukranians.

West needs to be ready to bring Russian industry to their knees. Western weapons are capable of hitting Russian factories and oil refineries and preventing Ukraine striking these key infrastructures targets allows Russia to keep up the wartime production and economy to produce and buy weapons. Moreover it unnecessarily protect regular Russians from consequences of war (in terms of shortages of goods) their goverment is conducting. The only way to force Russian army incapable of conducting war is bringing down Russian industry and there is pleanty of targets within range of western weapons.

The fastest way to end the conflict is to bring Russia to it's knees. Even targeting their industry the war likely isn't going to end as soon as we would hope, but if nothing else it would also reduce Russian's capability of hittin Ukranian civilians and soldiers making conducting war much more difficult for Russia as army is unable to replace lost equipment due to industrial shortages.

I hope telegraph is one of the few outlets understanding the importance of making sure Russia loses this war and would be able to promote the view point for west to take harsher stance on Ukraine war and promote the understanding why that is the case.

[markhumke]

Why not so many listens ?....This is a great podcast !!!!

[timewitness]

I'm following this podcast since the beginning of the invasion, but with all respects, calling this episode "Ukraine repels massive Russian assaults" is poor. Sadly, russia is breaking through Ukraines defense lines, just yesterday they gained 3km in one day. It's not the typical movement from bushline to bushline anymore.
A reason for this might be that russia has close air support at the frontline with no counter to that by Ukraines troops, besides manpads. The situation has developed from critical to desperate.
The collective west must pump up its shipments of supplys, now.

[nygesjs]

The I O C has not behaved well in the past either.

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[goldenoriolesilverbirch]

'' Russia isn't entirely failing at this point...''

[georgeallcorn]

This is unbelievably horrific, I fear the worst ,

[annetteroennow]

Great to hear a Russian who was suppose to 'whatever' at the Olympics was arrested, the Olympic Committee lack of interest is deplorable... ! Sad to hear about the updates on the Russian invasion.. seems every day it just gets worse as interest around the world is waning. Hope Harris as president will be less timid on Ukraine.

[robertgarcia]

How long will we let Russia play in all our western games while the actively work against the principles and infrastructure that make them possible?!?

[Krasavetz]

Meanwhile israeli athletes are all double standards eh.

[branscombeR]

Great content, professionally delivered! Thanks to the UTL team. R (Australia)

[jayuppercase]

The Russian bots are in the building lol

[marisabenson]

Biden can do a lot to help Ukraine. All the things he should have done at the start. Political will is the problem and at the very least he should ignore Jake Sullivan and lift restrictions.

[danykovac]

Based on videos from telegram channels Ukraine destroyed some of the vehicles of massive Russian assault but Russia still captured some ground. So repel assualt is a bold statement.

[Jazzisa]

We need to keep the pressure on those companies. Some have left Ukraine with a lot of fanfare, only to sneakily return there when they think nobody is looking.

[MushramboMu]

Everyone must be allowed to participate aslong they don't support bad stuff like the wars.