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Every weekday the Telegraph’s top journalists analyse the Russian invasion of Ukraine from all angles and tell you what you need to know
Today on Ukraine: The Latest, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine; discuss the coup in Niger; and we have the first part in a special two-part interview with with the FT’s Ukraine Correspondent, Christopher Miller.
In the first third of the episode, Dominic Nicholls unpacks the latest barrage of drone strikes:
A missile attack on President Zelensky’s hometown has left five dead. It completely wiped out five floors. A local university building was almost levelled.
President Zelensky said ‘In recent days, the enemy has been stubbornly attacking cities, city centres, shelling civilian objects and housing. But this terror will not frighten us or break us. We’re working and saving our people’.