Ukraine presses the counter attack, Putin snubs Gorbachev's upcoming funeral and the latest from the Zaporizhzhya NPP

Ukraine presses the counter attack, Putin snubs Gorbachev's upcoming funeral and the latest from the Zaporizhzhya NPP

Day 191.

Today, we discuss the latest updates from the war zone, the ongoing developments at the ZNPP and analyse what Putin’s snub of Gorbachev tells us about him and modern Russia.


Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22.

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

James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent).

Hamish de Bretton Gordon OBE (Former commander of UK and Nato CBRN Forces).


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