'Devastating' HIMARS ambush - Ukrainian troops lure in Russians

'Devastating' HIMARS ambush - Ukrainian troops lure in Russians

By The Telegraph

Day 1,069.

Today, on the 80th International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we report on an operation in Kursk Oblast last week that apparently saw a large number of Russian troops lured into a trap, and we look at the literally unbelievable election win for Lukashenko in Belarus - returned to power with, we are expected to believe, 87% of the vote.


Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor, Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

With thanks to Shashank Joshi (Defence editor at The Economist). @shashj on X.


Articles Referenced:


Israel ‘sends weapons captured in Lebanon to Ukraine’ (The Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/26/israel-sends-weapons-captured-from-lebanon-to-ukraine/


Zelensky says allies should work on ‘format’ for peace talks with Russia (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/25/russia-ukraine-war-zelensky-format-for-peace-talks-putin/


Why is Ukraine struggling to mobilise its citizens to fight? (AlJazeera):

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/why-is-ukraine-struggling-to-mobilise-its-citizens-to-fight


Russia focuses on Soviet victims of WW2 as officials not invited to Auschwitz ceremony (BBC):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw0vkzkzdo


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