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It's Thursday, the 30th of January, two years and 335 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today I'm joined by our associate editor for defense, Dominic Nichols, our senior foreign correspondent, Memphis Barker,

and Dialing in from the United States, Nate Darling and Taras Malay of the Cleveland, Ukraine podcast.

But first, over to Dom for the latest from the battlefield.

I will start with the latest from Battlefield in a moment, Francis, but I'll just offer our condolences to anyone affected by the plane crash in Washington, D.C. overnight. Terrible news. And we are thinking of anyone affected there. Let's go into Ukraine. Let's start on the ground. Russia seems to have moved west into some open ground just to the southeast

of Chassivya, seemingly no further through the town itself. I mentioned that because it slightly

contradicts yesterday's report from the Moscow Times that Russia has taken the whole town. Otherwise,

very little movement on the ground. The slow grind west in the Dombas continues, but very

little ground to the south of Percroth. Ukraine's defence ministry say for all that lack of movement,

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