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How has the shock cross-border offensive gone down in Russia?

We hear from Nikita, whose family and friends live in Kursk, about what they’ve been witnessing and how worried they are.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, tells us how this is going down in the Kremlin and what President Putin might down next

And Olga Robinson from ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Verify is in the studio to help us understand the picture more clearly.

Today’s episode is presented by Jamie Coomarasamy and Vitaly Shevchenko.

The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming, Ivana Davidovic and Hatty Nash. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Richard Fenton-Smith.

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