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Battleground

224. Will Ukraine lower the age of Conscription?

Battleground

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this week's edition of Battleground Ukraine Saul and Patrick discuss the fallout from a series of escalations last week, the US's push for Ukraine to lower its age of conscription in order to combat the its manpower shortage.  They also react to the latest significant appointee to the incoming Trump administration and what that could mean for US policy on Ukraine in the new year. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Hello and welcome to the Battlebrand podcast with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

0:48.8

Well, contrary to early reports last week, Russia did not fire an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM,

0:56.2

at Ukraine as a response to Washington and London's decision to let Kiev fire medium-range

1:01.3

missiles like attackings and stormshadows into Russia, which would, of course, have been a world-first

1:06.4

and a significant escalation. But it did use an intermediate range ballistic missile, or IRBM, known as

1:14.2

an Ereschnik, that uses multiple re-entry vehicles or warheads, hence the spectacular set of

1:20.2

explosions that Patrick mentioned last week. Well, Russia confirmed that it was the first time it had

1:25.4

used the missile, which it said was a successful

1:29.6

test of this Ereshnik, and it was in response to those who are trying to blackmail Russia,

1:37.2

a bit of a vague phrase that Putin added, there were plenty more of these new missiles,

1:41.3

and they were ready to be used, They fly at 10 times the speed of sound

1:45.1

and they can't be intercepted. And so a warning that more of that was on the way. And also

1:51.0

delivered at the same time a threat from Moscow that it may target military facilities in states

1:57.3

supporting Ukraine. So that's a clear kind of warning to Britain, frauds and US.

2:04.8

Inevitably, Patrick, this produced a robust response in many Western capitals with foreign

2:09.7

ministers from the G7, calling Russia's use of a new ballistic missile in Ukraine, reckless and

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