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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Daily Oz. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sam Kozlowski. It is the fourteenth of March. On

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Speaker 1: today's podcast, we're going to be looking at the Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: capital city of Kiev. It seems to be a strategic

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Speaker 1: stronghold in this conflict. A lot of focus in the

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Speaker 1: news is on the city and why the international community

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Speaker 1: is so concerned. But before that, Zara, what's making headlines

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Speaker 1: this week?

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Speaker 2: The New South Wales government yesterday announced to twenty five

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Speaker 2: million dollar mental health support package for those in flood

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Speaker 2: affected regions. Mental health clinicians will be deployed to assist

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Speaker 2: the needs of the northern New South Wales community, and

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Speaker 2: five million dollars in grants is set to be given

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Speaker 2: to non government organizations to deliver trauma and recovery programs.

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Speaker 1: In the meeting with reporters over the weekend, Ukrainian President

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Zelensky said thirteen hundred Ukrainian troops have died since

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Speaker 1: Russia's invasion. During the meeting, Zelensky also called for a

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Speaker 1: ceasefire to start peace talks between the two nations.

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Speaker 2: Eighty one people in Saudi Arabia have been executed in

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Speaker 2: a single day. It's believed they were convicted of various crimes,

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Speaker 2: including murdering innocent men, women and children. And that's according

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Speaker 2: to Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry. It's one of the largest

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Speaker 2: mass executions carried out in a twenty four hour period

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Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia's history.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. Over the weekend, Australians came together

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Speaker 1: to raise twenty five million dollars in the Australia Unite's

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Speaker 1: Red Cross Flood Appeal telethon. It was broadcasted by TV

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Speaker 1: Networks seven, nine and ten. The original target of the

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Speaker 1: telethon was twenty million dollars. As sixty four kilometers of

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Speaker 1: tanks streamed towards the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, citizens in

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Speaker 1: the city of two point eight million are desperately looking

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Speaker 1: for a way out. Ukrainian forces, eager to set up

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Speaker 1: humanitarian corridors for citizens to leave the city, are being

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Speaker 1: met with shelling attacks on those very corridors by Russia troops.

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Speaker 1: Sirens and explosions continue to fill the soundscape of the city.

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Speaker 2: The fall of the capital city is, in the context

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Speaker 2: of many other conflicts in modern history, a very pivotal

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Speaker 2: moment of conflict, Sam, is this moment getting closer?

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Speaker 1: It does seem so, Zara. These satellite images that we

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Speaker 1: spoke about do indeed show this enormous stretch of Russian

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Speaker 1: troops heading straight towards the capital. We've put those images

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Speaker 1: up on our Instagram yesterday, and that's important because up

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Speaker 1: until this weekend those vehicles were stationed well outside Kiev

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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. We knew over the weekend

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Speaker 1: that this was a significant movement of Russian troops because

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Speaker 1: we saw Western nations like the US and the UK

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Speaker 1: who spoke with grave concern about Russia's movements into Kiev.

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Speaker 1: We heard specifically from the UK's Defense ministry who said

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Speaker 1: Russian ground forces were twenty five kilometers from the center

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Speaker 1: of the capital. This was then backed up by the

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Speaker 1: US defense official who confirmed the movement of Russian forces.

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Speaker 1: They said in the Pentagon briefing, we do assess that

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Speaker 1: the Russians are beginning to make more momentum on the

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Speaker 1: ground towards Kiev, particularly from the east. Then this was

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Speaker 1: all compounded by the fact that Ukrainian officials came out

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Speaker 1: and said that the city was ready to fight and

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Speaker 1: that Kiev would stand until the end. It was quite

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Speaker 1: dramatic use of language there, and another Ukrainian presidential advisor

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Speaker 1: noted that Russian forces had been halted in practically every

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Speaker 1: direction by air strikes, rocket fire, and ground attacks.

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Speaker 2: It's often pretty hard to think practically, I guess about

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Speaker 2: a city being invaded and how that actually happens in

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Speaker 2: the space of a night. Do we know how Russian

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Speaker 2: troops are positioning themselves outside the city.

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Speaker 1: There are some really helpful graphics doing the rounds on

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Speaker 1: social media that shows that there's a clear Russian front

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Speaker 1: coming from both the east and the west, and it

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Speaker 1: seems to be that the combination of fronts is the

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Speaker 1: really key part of this story. The Kiev Independent, which

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Speaker 1: is one of the major independent news outlets out of Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: is reporting on information from the Ukrainian Armed Forces that

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Speaker 1: Russia is sending more military power to both of these

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Speaker 1: wings and they're essentially trying to surround the city. We

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Speaker 1: know based on satellite images that Russian forces have been

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Speaker 1: there setting up these camps for the last two weeks,

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Speaker 1: but these camps are now moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we've covered what's happened over the weekend, but

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Speaker 2: if we zoom out more broadly on the invasion, what's

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Speaker 2: the latest update from Ukrainian president?

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Speaker 1: So, the President Vladimir Zelinski has given quite regular media

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Speaker 1: briefings to both domestic and international media over the last

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Speaker 1: few days, and over the weekend he shed some light

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Speaker 1: on the number of troops who've died on his side

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Speaker 1: of the conflict. He says that thirteen hundred Ukrainian troops

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Speaker 1: have died since the invasion started. He also claims that

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Speaker 1: between five hundred and six hundred Russian troops surrendered to

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces on Friday. However, as we're finding with international

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Speaker 1: meta ye reporting about the conflict, it's often hard to

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Speaker 1: verify some of these claims. Here is a clip of

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Speaker 1: the president speaking to reporters on the deaths of the troops.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this is an English interpreter.

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Speaker 3: Thirteen hundred people military died from OSA and twelve thirteen

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Speaker 3: thousand diet at their site. I'm not one to twelve

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Speaker 3: for this ratio. I'm not happy about that. So this

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Speaker 3: doesn't make me happy, Oh glad?

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Speaker 2: What have other leaders in Europe said?

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Speaker 1: There was a pretty major phone call over the weekend

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Speaker 1: between French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, and

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Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin. We don't know too much about

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Speaker 1: what happened on that call because neither of the three

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Speaker 1: parties offered an adequate description. What we do know was

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Speaker 1: that the call went for about seventy five minutes, and

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Speaker 1: both Schultz and Macron unsurprisedly called for an immediate ceasefire

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. A French Presidency official said that they didn't

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Speaker 1: TechEd a willingness on Pusin's part to end the war,

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Speaker 1: and that's very revealing of the tone of the conversation.

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Speaker 2: There's also been some footage that has recently come out

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Speaker 2: which is said to be the mayor of the Ukrainian

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Speaker 2: city of Melitopol being allegedly kidnapped by Russian forces on

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Speaker 2: Thursday local time. Do we know any more about that?

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Speaker 1: This was one of those clips that really dominated the

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Speaker 1: internet over the weekend. It all came from a telegram

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Speaker 1: piece of footage uploaded by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky. Interesting

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Speaker 1: to note their Zara that he's using telegram really effectively

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Speaker 1: in this conflict. And that was the clip that it

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Speaker 1: was claimed that this mayor was kidnapped by Russian forces.

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Speaker 1: Zelinsky said on telegram that the city's community is demanding

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Speaker 1: his release. According to Ukraine's Interior Ministry, this mayor was

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Speaker 1: led to an unknown location with a bag over his head,

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Speaker 1: and then according to some Ukrainian online newspapers, Russian forces

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Speaker 1: arrived on the second day of their invasion into the

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Speaker 1: city of Mlidopol, and since then the mayor has been

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Speaker 1: one of the key figures of defiance against the invasion

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Speaker 1: and has led marches in the street. It's believed that

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Speaker 1: this led to his arrest. Russia is yet to comment

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Speaker 1: on any of this.

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Speaker 2: That's all we have time for today. It is, of

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Speaker 2: course an ever changing situation, and as Russian forces advance

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Speaker 2: on Kiev, this is not a conflict that is going away.

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Speaker 2: It seems to be intensifying. If anything, We'll be sure

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Speaker 2: to update you over on our Instagram at the daily

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Speaker 2: OS and keep you abreast of any new information that

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Speaker 2: we learn about this conflict. Let us know if there's

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Speaker 2: anything in particular that you have any questions about, or

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Speaker 2: you want anything clarified. We are always here to explain

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Speaker 2: what is going on in the world. Have a wonderful Monday,