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Day 1,710.

Today, as Russian carnage leaves dead and injured across Ukraine, including at an aid distribution site and a medical facility, Steve Witkoff says trilateral peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. will be held a week today in Abu Dhabi. We hear directly from Kyiv after disturbing scenes last night when violence broke out at a facility housing people forcibly drafted into the Ukrainian military. As voting continues in the US midterm elections, we catch up with one former State Department official about the likely consequences of the vote, and hear about tensions between the White House and the so-called ‘deep state’.


Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.


With thanks to Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent and Eliot Cohen, contributing writer at The Atlantic and former counselor to the head of the US State Department.


Producer: Phil Atkins

Senior Producer: Lilian Fawcett

Video Producer: Sophie O’Sullivan

Social Producer: Tom Steed

Studio Director: Meghan Searle

Executive Editor: Francis Dearnley

Created by David Knowles


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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Protesters, National Guard hold tense standoff over detainment of service members, draftees (Kyiv Independent)

https://kyivindependent.com/confrontation-involving-national-guard-soldiers-unfolds-near-kyiv-police-deny-hostage-reports/


Francis Farrell’s thread on X about the National Guard incident:

https://x.com/francisjfarrell/status/2117415987251380273?s=46


Eliot A Cohen’s book, ‘The Strategist: How to Think About War and Politics’:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strategist-How-Think-About-Politics/dp/0691269440


‘Desert Rats’ soldiers to train for peace in Ukraine (The Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11/03/ukraine-war-british-uk-army-soldiers-desert-rats/


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