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Hello and welcome to the Battleground Ukraine podcast with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

It's been another relatively quiet week of news from the frontline, with Ukraine's forces regrouping after the spectacular gains of September, and Russia attempting to make

a little bit of momentum in the odd area. But at the same time, there have been plenty of alarming

developments on the political and diplomatic front that we'll be discussing in a moment.

And after the break, we're going to be hearing from the very eminent military historian, Sir Max Hastings, a former war correspondent and newspaper editor, the Daily Telegraph on the Evening Standard.

Now, it's a really very, very insightful, very impressive interview that we've got with Max, and we're very grateful for it.

His latest book is about the Cuban

missile crisis, and that obviously resonates very much with what's going on today. The book's

called Abyss, and in his talk with us, he draws some pretty alarming comparisons with that,

and also looks forward to how this is going to be resolved.

A lot of it will not make very comfortable listening, but it really is a truly fascinating

contribution to our understanding, I think, of what's going on there.

And we're also going to answer some of the questions.

You may remember that we ask you to send in any queries, observations,

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