How British farm vehicles are turned into Ukrainian rocket launchers | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

Day 288.
Today, we discuss the latest updates from the battlefront, explore how old British farming vehicles are being turned into Ukrainian rocket launchers and we analyse Vladimir Putin’s latest speech .
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Colin Freeman (Freelance Journalist).
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter).
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[@richiemccarthy922]

Love this podcast. My favorite in the web. Knowledgeable commentators who know what they are talking about. Irish guy in New York 👏👏👏

[@emmawise1609]

Yeah Irish guy in new York. Your a fool. U do understand the US is evil? There's a reason they didn't crash planes into buildings in Sydney Australia. Because its revenge for the war crimes the US commits. But hey, if it's the US or Ireland I mean one crap hole over another.

[@anthonykalisz6664]

Greenville, Michigan, U.S. Just tuned in. Diverse, intelligent discourse. Refreshing.

[@revmarynehring2300]

I listen every day on KZbin. Brilliant content! from Colorado US

[@jameschamberlain5817]

Always great podcasts! Great work chaps!

[@radical_truffle]

Essential daily update.

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

A swap between Grainer and Bout is rather disgusting than something to celebrate.

[@christinemarshall1366]

I find your comment and the "likers" rather disgusting for a variety of reasons normally associated with far right extremists.

[@vanhamies8512]

He'd have served his time and released in a few years anyway. Disgusting is the riffraff Russia wants back.

[@dearmas9068]

The Lord of War cant really go anywhere or do any weapons trading anymore. The whole world already knows who he is, so if he tried, they would just arrest him again. Hes done. Griner, however, has an expiring timeframe on her career. She deserves to be free, and her imprisonment is just one more example of Russia's amorality, malevolence, and indecency.

[@seanmoran2743]

Reeks of Desperation 😢 This Proxy War should never have been started!

[@jorr1334]

Give pukin a call and tell him....

[@georgemacdonell2341]

Ditto

[@shaunvduke]

The Ukranians innovating - turning Hilux into an MLRS. Russians innovating - ask your girlfriend for some of her tampons for a field dressing. Who is the more desperate?

[@SigmaJAD]

"Ukraine: The Latest" is the best. Please keep these going. Excellent journalism

[@hawkbartril3016]

The propaganda central man . Read 1st comment

[@The_ZeroLine]

The only people who think the lines are static or the fighting has slowed down are those not paying any attention or simply glancing at headlines now and then.

[@NortyNige]

The Triton is a fairly average ute but the Ukrainians prefer Right hand Drive vehicles as habitually a Russian will shoot out the passenger side first as that is where they expect the driver to be so surviveability is enhanced enough to get off the road to safety. The common or garden 4 WD has become a highly mobile thin skinned vehicle which can hit and run with comparative ease.

[@catdog7497]

Having only discovered this podcast recently, I listen to 2 episodes a night before bed and there is always fresh bits and pieces in here I havent learned yet. Considering I spend around 3 hours a day researching Ukraine/Russia updates before finally winding down with this podcast, I'm always delightfully surprised to hear fresh news bits on this podcast that haven't yet made it to the underground media circuit yet. This China-Russia contract was a shocker to me, and Im hoping we do get to learn more in the coming months and hopefully we find that US and China have a much bigger line of communication open between them than they are letting on.

[@markhall6306]

Great video Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 from Minnesota my girlfriend lives in Mykolaiv

[@PeterSedesse]

Ural oil (russian oil) is down to $52, far below the price cap. this is a sign that both india and china are demanding deeper discounts after the price cap went into effect. Now that the EU is not buying russian oil, china knows russia has no other option.

[@stpancraschapel2136]

Crikey that’s really low! The production cost isn’t much below that, they can only be making about US$12 a barrel.

[@dm32904]

they are middle men sell on to eu for 80 dollars

[@Ibu812]

Force à l’Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦👍

[@gabriel-gr4cv]

Slawa Ukraine ... HH ... Bandera Fascists ...

[@dm32904]

the flag is wrong, it has a totemkopf not a dove

[@ruaridhmacdonald3543]

The Russians cannot stop pumping the oil without destroying their pipes (due to permafrost issues) so they have to accept the best price available.

[@The_ZeroLine]

It will literally blow up decades worth of infrastructure. I wonder how much they could store.

[@joblo341]

That is essentially what I heard. Pumping oil in frozen locations they have to keep the oil moving. If it slows down too much, the oil absorbs cold from the surrounding ground, making it thicker and slower. Crude oil also contains some water. Eventually that water freezes to the sides of the pipe, accumulating, slowly creating a plug in the pipe. The freezing water expands, cracking the pipe. This means the oil well has to be redrilled. But ... russia does not have the technology or expertise or equipment to do this. They used to depend on various western oil producers to do it for them. They have left the country. So now russia is in a corner. Either keep pumping and accept what ever price they can get, or stop pumping and be forced to redrill the well some indeterminate time in the future.

[@lolodee3528]

🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😂🤣

[@khonhlo1476]

@@joblo341 When the Soviet Union collapsed, they oil stop flowing for a period of time. They just recently had the entire system up online as of 2021. 30+ years repair on the verge of collapse again.

[@joblo341]

@@khonhlo1476 Good point. Last time they had "glasnost" encouraging western companies to invest in russia. Western investment isn't going to happen again until some time after sanctions end. Who knows when that will be. And even then, how long will it be before companies are willing to risk investments again ... ?

[@hasanmjbram]

Love this show. (Eastern Ontario)

[@Centurion101B3C]

Seems to me the re-invention of the old weapon-carrier, being slightly larger and stronger than the standard utility vehicle but with a bit more heft and flexibility in payload to it.

[@0ldb1ll]

The first British groups that used 'technicals' were the Long Range Desert Group and Popski's Private Army. They were forerunners of the SAS.

[@rufinogarcia7724]

Necessity is the mother of innovation

[@hawkbartril3016]

Real info at the duran

[@pfp_ideas]

Ukrainian 💪🏻

[@georgeflitzer7160]

Keep C-Rations going to Ukraine for soldiers and civilians!

[@wacojones8062]

Light trucks were used in the Desert in the First World War. In between the First World war and the start of the Second World War. Both German, Italian and British individuals developed the equipping of Trucks and the driving techniques for use in the Great Sand seas of North Africa. Those efforts lead to units formed for both recon and attack missions. The British had the Long-Range Dessert Group Followed a bit later by the SAS. LRDG both engineered attacks with the Free French but also conducted deep recons and long periods of road watch where 2 troopers would watch counting trucks and other vehicles moving along the coast road for a 24-hour shift before being replaced. Patrols rotated the duty as needed around every three weeks. There are dozens of books about these units' histories.

[@factanonverba6169]

Do not forget "Popski's Private Army."

[@georgeflitzer7160]

Ty UK!

[@EkuuleusNorth]

Some useful bits.

[@wesley135]

💙Slava ukraini 💛

[@ScammedbyFolrentinaConchas]

nice hit on Mall can even see 3 in coming missiles👏👏👏👏👏

[@sspacegunn21]

Bravo to this great insight, good job! 🇺🇦 ❤️

[@roddixon368]

Yes the pickup trucks is common amoung irregular troops in Asia and Africa.

[@alphiebrowne7347]

I'm listening from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

[@Jyshrii]

Support from allies is going to continue on both the government and personal level, as with these amazing British people buying and delivering pick-up trucks to the front lines. The UK government has been exemplary in its strong support for Ukraine and deserves the highest respect for it. My country, the USA, is doing a good job of it, too, but we are not in a position to scrounge for used pick-ups which we can drive over to Ukraine. All I can do is continue to donate. Praise for the UK volunteers, and Glory to Ukraine!

[@h8GW]

Heroiam slava! 💙🇺🇦💛

[@willbaro5879]

Notice how majority of comments celebrating the podcast are now American or otherwise from the UA bot army?

[@willbaro5879]

@@charlesthrush6767 also calling me, comrade, is another asinine propaganda memetic. Do try and switch your brain on.

[@frederick7128]

Imagine future wars with electric trucks 😂

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

The Brits have a long history of defying their opponents. In this age, the Americans are the definitive backup, but the UK's military might is definitive. Its leadership is vital. Together we are consolidating behind the idea of democracy and human self-determination. The fighting in Bakhmut is savage. Like nothing experienced for generations. But the beauty of democracy, human rights? Our beliefs are so strong that the common person - fully knowing the truth... nothing shakes our beliefs in what is right. Our minds won't change

[@catalinxnecula]

shut up bot

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

@@catalinxnecula as if either would come true.

[@catalinxnecula]

Bill Bopperton get lost pest

[@ReimerGodt]

Mitsubishi manufacturing in Britain? Farming Vehicles are usually tractors, harvesters. Artillery losses of Ukraine seems considerable huge, at almost 1 : 1, whereas common landbourne vehicle loss ratio is some 1 : 3, as it "should", considering the population ratio of both countries. But towed artillery has delays in rapid response, thus easier to attack.

[@user-fh9mq3ux4n]

Remember all war is a racket and there is going to be hell to pay for this one .

[@emmerentiagroenewald3694]

Sounds an interesting channel, unfortunately the speech is too fast for me to follow...😥😣Are there subtitles somewhere,please??

[@chrissmith2114]

The Toyota Hilux is the toughest vehicle on the planet, even Clarkson could not destroy it in Top gear TV program...

[@merhaba8]

Rubbish, any of the popular pickups would’ve stood up to that especially with a bunch of mechanics keeping them going like Top Gear had! A AK bullet is still going to pass through them as easily as any other civilian vehicle.

[@chrissmith2114]

@@merhaba8 Not on about the ability to stop bullets, but the 'bulletproof design and build quality' of Toyota vehicles in general and the legendary Hilux in particular. No vehicle without 10mm of armour is going to stop rifle bullets.... Hilux is by far the choice of Australian farmers and tradesmen who need total reliability and rugged 'go anywhere' capability, and to last for decades. Nothing about stopping bullets, but about reliability and strength, and a track record many decades in the making.

[@merhaba8]

@@chrissmith2114 The bullet comment was tongue in cheek and I wasn’t doubting the reliability, etc, of the Hilux, I was just saying that any similar vehicle would have, or not have survived Top Gears stunt. The brand would be incidental. In NZ the Hilux lost its No 1 position about 7 years ago to the Ranger even in the forestry industry where they are notorious for thrashing their vehicles. The later Hiluxs are not cutting the mustard

[@malcolmb3744]

Light vehicles now made as a game changer. How many game changers is that now? Very much like the N a z 1 before their fall.

[@shaunvduke]

Well, check out Russias game changing light vehicles - UAZ 3741 bread loaf, was an embarrassment in the 80s and hasn't improved. But it is all Russia has...

[@jeremiasdeconlay9055]

Wow what a genues idea!

[@markmonaghan2309]

Yes, but it is desperation, give them something better

[@George.Andrews.]

Tractors are good in mud

[@ReimerGodt]

Pick-up vans are not tractors nor tracked vehicles.

[@dearmas9068]

@@markmonaghan2309 the Russians are the desperate ones, little guy

[@DAVEBROWNE2004]

We're tacticals used in Mogadishu during the Black Hawk Down incident?

[@dearmas9068]

Technicals* And yes.

[@DAVEBROWNE2004]

Okay thanks.

[@pythonbig1694]

UK taught ISIS the same thing in Syria.

[@Flitalidapouet]

Wow .... down to using pickups as military units???🤔🤔🤔

[@ctrl-del630]

I have several channels trough which I recieve information from Ukraine and Russia. Ordinairily news from the UK is only push the general nerrative. The Ukrainians are winning and the Russians are losing. I must say that the news on this channel is more realistic way and detailed. For now I can say I will come back.

[@peetky8645]

pothead swapped for mass murderer war criminal---justice served lol

[@dhm7815]

TL; DL. No pix of the farm vehicles before and after.

[@rocambole93]

good channel as usual although too much about trucks and not enought about prisonners exchange

[@john_in_phoenix]

Perhaps Griner will stand up for the national anthem now? I doubt it, but then again she wasn't in a Russian prison for being intelligent. Great podcast as usual, the Telegraph gained a US subscriber due to the great job of the regulars (and guests) of this podcast.

[@williamwells1862]

Ruzzies get more and more wiped out over the Winter.

[@timothykatende8484]

If the Russians were using them the entire western media including this podcast and its presenters would be telling us how dire the Russian situation is by using farm houses...

[@EhEhEhEINSTEIN]

Rocket launchers mounted on farm houses?? Fwiw, the expectations of standards are far different from Russian to Ukrainian militaries. No one was claiming Ukraine had the 2nd best military in the world.

[@dearmas9068]

Ukranian ingenuity is something to be celebrated. Russian incompetence is something to be laughed at.

[@lolodee3528]

Truly. Fortitude and Ingenuity. 🇺🇦

[@MiMI-hh4ue]

I bet my IZUZU pick up would work too! Millions of them here in Thailand

[@timothykatende8484]

Don't even praise the Ukrainians for resorting to this ...its a manifestation that one side has run out of logistics

[@jrd33]

I doubt the average Ukrainian soldier cares what's on a Daily Telegraph podcast anyway, but if they are using ingenuity to make up for the lack of equipment, why shouldn't they be praised? Humans generally like ingenuity and clever solutions to problems, or at least find them interesting.

[@dearmas9068]

No they havent. The West has not stopped giving weapons and funding. But they can always use more, and in war its paramount to be creative and operate with ingenuity. The Ukrainians have been remarkable in that regard.

[@johnd2058]

25:00 It's an indirect-fire war, the more the merrier, simple as that.

[@williamswenson5315]

A technical is an eggshell armed with hammers.

[@shaunvduke]

I don't doubt the ukranians could make new Himars launchers from the used rocket pods the original missiles came in

[@jeffsiegwart]

Where's the video???

[@edwardsianski725]

May St John XXIII and St John Paul II, together with St Nicholas, St Andrew, St George, Isaiah and St Catherine of Alexandria, intercede with the Almighty for the removal of Putin, Lavrov, Shoigu, Sergei Surovikin and their minions from power and a just peace for Ukraine. May St Michael and all the angels protect Ukrainian skies and may Our Lady of Zarvanytsia help all Ukrainians who are mourning loved ones.

[@matthewbowler6563]

@SteveParker thinks we should keep the farm vehicles unused and give the money to the eu instead

[@ReimerGodt]

How are financially written-off old worn out things be able to generate money to send somewhere?

[@matthewbowler6563]

They arent wrote off thats the point the farmers have no money they are unused. As a consequence of regulations on emmision for farming but the same people are facilitating sale for use abroad... Eurolite politicians

[@matthewbowler6563]

The ammount of farmer out of bussines in our uk is unreal they are dropping like pennies they sell vehicles then they are sent to ukraine ussauly through insolvency

[@70newlife]

Lol down to second hand pick trucks and still preening?🤪🤪

[@hmmcinerney]

Preening not quite the word for a nation under siege. At least it’s not washing machines stolen by fleeing Russians to use the chips in their fighting jets. Which might explain their crashing into apartment blocks. And yes they are winning.

[@Cloudman572]

Grats to Zelensky onn becoming Time magazine Person of the Year, he certain deserves it for the good he has done for Ukraine. However previous Person of the year for Time Magazine are Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957) and Ayatollah Khomeini (1979).

[@ReimerGodt]

Depends on the criteria. The criteria might not be influenced by humanism, but simply by success.

[@dearmas9068]

Person of the year is about influence and importance, not necessarily about morality. But we already know Zelenski is on the side of freedom and decency. We dont need that explained to us. The only people in the world who dont understand that the Russians are evil, are Russians themselves.

[@pocolol8424]

Just need to find something to turn into rockets.

[@ulfsoderberg2581]

Is this a serious program ?

[@waasa7346]

as serious as the SUN - the vulgar disgusting semiliterate rag 😆

[@libertinoradio4597]

Erm, y'know. Other content also.

[@Balmorax]

Guys, there's no video. Nor any scent of freshly cut grass.

[@stpancraschapel2136]

It doesn’t taste of Madagascan vanilla either. The ‘Graph is really heading downhill these days.

[@Balmorax]

@@stpancraschapel2136 good observation... they're failing, they're failing, China does it all

[@user-fh9mq3ux4n]

Erdogan is the man to mediate negotiations ,conditional on Crimea DPR ZPR and LPR remain under Russian administration ,Russian and NATO forces leave Ukraine and the Turkish military police a demilitarised zone

[@buddyrojek9417]

Turkey , West of the Bosporus is going to become a new state to reflect the historical connection to Christian Europe , Byzantium . Because if Russia wants the Donbas , Europe should get Byzantium . Or should we respect borders ?

[@alanchristensen5735]

Will Germany send Leopard2 Tanks to Ukraine in time for the next offensive? It would certainly help push the Russian forces out of occupied Ukrainian territory.

[@ReimerGodt]

German tanks got blown turrets off in Syria, deployed by Turkey, as the Soviet era ones currently in Ukraine. The whole Ukraine territory resembles the hedgerow county in Normandy in 1944, just the fields are XXL-size. I don't think, that Ukraine is an area to deploy battle tanks with much success. To run over trenches would likely need tanks of the 100+tons size with armour all around as thick as former battle ships. Possibly steered by remote controll.

[@dearmas9068]

I dont forsee any western country sending modern main battle tanks or jet fighters. Some things are neither needed, nor a good idea to send.

[@cariad4297]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@georgiarichardson1107]

Going back to sleep. G in bathroom being sick.

[@steveparker8065]

Pity they aren't used to farm produce in Britain considering the escalation of food banks, the loss of EU subsidies may be a contributory factor...

[@sumiland6445]

What???

[@steveparker8065]

@@sumiland6445 Thankyou for that eloquent and erudite question, please explain what word troubles your understanding...

[@oxana3806]

Hopefully the farmers have much better newer vehicles for this purpose. They are selling off old ones otherwise going to waste.

[@richardkent7369]

They are Pick-up truks not Tracktors.

[@urseliusurgel4365]

I think defending a democracy against the unprovoked aggression of a criminal-dominated, totalitarian dictatorship is a little more important than any marginal effects on food production in an otherwise comfortably off country.

[@albertroundtree299]

Yes and super sniper grannies and marching to Moscow within a few weeks, and Snake Island and The Ghost of Kiev and Santa coming down chimneys. I sincerely wish that Ukraine gains EU membership. Nothing like another nail in its coffin. To be sure, to be sure.

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💜💙💛

[@sumiland6445]

The Russian set up field hospitals AND shipped blood supply to the military "practice" on the border with Ukraine, so NOT a practice at all.

[@leifharmsen]

This sounds desperate. Why not simply build a rocket launcher factory? Are we talking about UK or Cuba?

[@gingersnap1552]

😅😅 the propaganda never stops. US documents show this war will continue into 2024. We will see I suppose if your still reporting by then.

[@zeno15sti33]

Dude just call it a technical aka technical pickup the audience arent practically moronic. jc

[@dreadhead170]

Glory to Russia

[@maureenleckie6216]

lol lol lol

[@georgemacdonell2341]

Bottom line, no way russia wins. Amen

[@getafix2325]

Lol cool story bro. Don't forget the anti freeze. Send some mini vans for them so as to fit the million man army in them. Lol

[@richardlee9207]

Fakenews