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The Ukraine-Russia War Podcast is a discussion of the most up to date and important strategic and geopolitical issues surrounding the war in Ukraine, with hosts Phillips O'Brien and Mykola Bielieskov. You are welcome to get in touch by email at ukrainewartalk@gmail.com. Listeners can follow Phillips O'Brien on Substack at phillipspobrien.substack.com (where this podcast is also available) and Mykola Bielieskov on Twitter at @MBielieskov. Our plan is to keep this podcast free and without ads. ...
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Episode 16: The Biden Administration Allows Ukraine to Attack Into Russia (Finally)
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Mykola and Phillips are back with their latest Ukraine-Russia War Talk Podcast. We go into detail about the big story of the week, the decision by the Biden Administration to allow Ukraine (to a limited degree) to fire into Russia. We discuss how its taken so long, what it might do, and Ukrainian opinion on the matter. Then we discuss Ukrainian str…
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Episode 15: The Russian Kharkiv Offensive
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We start by discussing the developments since May 10, when the Russian offensive towards Kharkiv commenced. We then move into the ranged campaign with Ukrainian attacks in Crimea and against Russian oil refineries. We also delve into (rather angrily) the US policy of forbidding Ukraine from using US-made systems to attack military targets in Russia…
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Episode 14:The Situation on the Front Line
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Hello All, Mykola and Phil are back with the latest episode. In it we delve into the situation on the front line. There has been some amazingly pessimistic reporting from the front line over the last few weeks, and we try to put what is happening into perspective. The Russians are showing, even with massive fire advantage, the ability to make only …
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Episode 13: US Aid is (finally) about to be approved.
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Hello all, a week later than normal, Phillips and Mykola are back with our latest episode. For the first time in months, there (seems to be) good news about US aid being approved. We talk about what this means for Ukraine, and what the many months without aid have done. We then discuss the situation on the battlefield and the continuation of Ukrain…
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Episode 12: Ukraine's Strategic Air War--which the US wants to stop
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Mykola and Phillips are back with another instalment of the Ukraine-Russia War Talk Podcast. This episode starts with a detailed discussion of the Ukrainian strategic air campaign, particularly against Russian fuel. We then segway into a discussion of the US government (bizarrely) asking Ukraine to stop it. Then we move into a discussion of more ch…
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Hello All. Mykola and Phillips are back with a new episode surveying what we think are the biggest stories in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. This week we start with a detailed discussion of the outside world, in particular focussing on the important change in tone coming from Europe over the last 2 weeks. President Macron seems to have ha…
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Episode 10: Situation on the Battlefield with Ukraine on the defensive
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Mykola and Phil start this podcast with a detailed discussion of the state of the battlefield with Ukraine on the defensive. We then discuss the air war with Ukraine shooting down a very large number of Russian jets. Finally, a discussion of the state of play when it comes to getting Ukraine the aid it needs--complete with a short rant by Phil As a…
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Episode 9: Changes in Ukrainian Command, Avdiivka and Ukrainan Defense, Another Russian Warship Sunk
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Phil and Mykola are back to go over the most important stories of the last two weeks. Its been extremely eventful, starting with President Zelensky's decision to remove General Zaluzhny from command and replace him with General Syrskyi. This has heralded a major shake-up throughout Ukrainian command. We also discuss the fighting around Avdiivka and…
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Episode 8: Command Crisis, the state of the war, Americans telling Ukraine what to do
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Hello All, Mykola and Phillips are back with a discussion ranging around the most important stories in the Russo-Ukraine War over the last two weeks. We start with a detailed discussion of the political crisis over the command of Ukrainian forces which seems to be happening between President Zelensky and General Zaluzhny. Whatever happens, it would…
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Episode 7: The State of the Fighting, UK Defense Commitments to Ukraine, and Needles for a Porcupine.
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Just released the latest episode from Mykola Bielieskov and myself of the Ukraine-Russia War Talk podcast. We range over three main stories in this episode. First, the status of the fighting including the Ukrainians shooting down of the A 50 and the course of Ukrainian Active Defense on the front line. Next we go into the UK defense commitments to …
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Episode 6: What are Russians and Ukrainians attacking? Ukrainian Strategy, Reporting
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At the start of the episode we discuss Come Back Alive, and announce our plan to have a UAV operator who has worked with them to speak on the next episode (hopefully). Then we go over the stepped up Russian missile/UAV attacks on Ukraine, what are they doing and hoping to accomplish. As part of this we discuss Ukrainian life under these attacjs. We…
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Episode 5, Russia on the offensive, Ukrainian strategy in 2024, air defense and what it means.
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We wrap up 2023 by delving into three stories. First, we discuss the situation on the front line, in particular the Russian offensive against Avdiivka and other places. Next, we try to outline the different options for Ukraine's strategy in 2024. Finally we examine the relative success of Ukrainian air defense this winter compared to last, and show…
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Episode 2: Ukraine Strikes Crimea, the Naval War, and Much Else
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We discuss the Ukrainian campaign against Russian military targets in Crimea, which is one of the most important in the war. As part of this we branch out into the naval war as a whole, which is seeing Ukraine push Russian naval power out of the western Black Sea. We then discuss the Ukrainian and Russian fight to procure artillery ammunition, the …
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Episode1: Introducing Ukraine-Russia War Talk
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We announce our new podcast and ask that everyone who wants to help our efforts think about donating to Come Back Alive, the Ukrainian charity we both strongly support. For the subject of the first week, we look at how the Counteroffensive has developed and survey the state of the war in general. As always, this podcast is free and without commerci…
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Episode 4: A look around the war, recent articles, and what's going on with US aid.
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Mykola and Phillips delve into 3 different stories in this episode. First, we survey the situation in the battlefield, from the front line to Crimea. Second, we spend some time analyzing a number of the most prominent news stories of the last week which discuss the war, including the controversial Washington Post story on the counteroffensive. Fina…
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Episode 3: Avdiivka, Kherson, Crimea: Plus General Zaluzhny's ideas on how Ukraine can win the war
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As always, this podcast is free and without commercials, but if you want to support our work, you can always make a donation to Come Back Alive: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card-monthly Thank you listening, and make sure to 'like' and subscribe so you don't miss an episode. The show is produced by Phillips O'Brien. Sound editin…
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