Football in wartime, with David Knowles

Day 1,491.Today, as extraordinary Ukrainian strikes in the Baltic region reportedly knock out around 40 per cent of Russia’s crude oil export capacity in a single attack – and achieve the first known successful strike on a Russian military ship in the Baltic Sea, hundreds of kilo ...  Show more

Day 1,490.Today, as Ukraine suffers the largest wave of Russian attacks of the entire war – including a rare daytime aerial assault across much of the country – we examine the scale and impact of the bombardment. We also report on Ukrainian drone strikes targeting Russia’s Baltic ...  Show more

NPR’s National Security Correspondent Greg Myre spent the summer reporting on the war in Ukraine. He saw the devastation of the conflict. But he also saw something else: the country leveraging its resources at home to meet the moment…including in Lviv where they’re racing to make ...  Show more

Sign up for Intelligence Squared Premium here: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ for ad-free listening, bonus content, early access and much more. See below for details. Ukraine’s best known novelist Andrey Kurkov joins us to speak about life, literature, and the war in Ukraine, ...  Show more

Christiane is in Ukraine this week as the country faces its biggest government shakeup since Russia’s full-scale invasion began over 30 months ago, with the war at a critical turning point. She sits down with Ukraine’s Army Chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, for an exclusive inter ...  Show more

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In this episode, Nicole sits down with Maks Chmerkovskiy, who was in Ukraine when the war broke out. Before February 2022, Maks was known as a Ukrainian-born, fan-favorite Dancing with the Stars alum… but when ...  Show more