The Importance of Imagining Defeat and Understanding its Consequences

Day 718.

Today, we bring you the news of the sinking of another warship from Russia’s Black Sea fleet and we discuss a powerful new report from Human Rights Watch on the Russian assault on Mariupol.

Contributors:

David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

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

Gerry Simpson (Associate director in the Crisis and Conflict Division at Human Rights Watch). @GerrySimpsonHRW on Twitter.

Articles Referenced:

Human Rights Watch's Report on Mariupol

https://www.hrw.org/feature/russia-ukraine-war-mariupol/report

'If You Think World War III Is Unimaginable, Read This' (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-11/what-would-america-look-like-if-it-lost-world-war-iii?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Live Event:

Join us online at the US Embassy in London for a special live recording of Ukraine: The Latest:

https://extra.telegraph.co.uk/events/ukraine-latest-london-embassy

The event is on Thursday 15 February and starts at 18:30 GMT (13:30 ET).

Q&A with the Team: 

To mark two years of war, David, Dom, and Francis will be answering Telegraph subscriber questions in a future episode.

You can submit them here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/13/qa-russia-ukraine-war-second-anniversary-podcast/

Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest

Email: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.