Ukraine: The Latest

US to take Zelensky’s peace plan to Russia & From Trenches to Trailblazers - Ukraine’s Art Revolution

24 Dec 2025

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Day 1,399. Today, President Zelensky has revealed details of the proposed peace plan worked out between US and Ukraine delegations last weekend in Mia...

Fresh Russian offensive in Sumy & Putin's pre-Christmas strikes target 'entire infrastructure of life'.

23 Dec 2025

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Day 1,398.Today, as reports come in of a renewed Russian cross-border incursion in the north east of the country, Ukraine is clearing up after another...

Moscow car bomb kills Russian General & Miami weekend talks “do not improve” peace proposal

22 Dec 2025

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Day 1,397.Today, as three days of talks in Miami between the US, Ukraine and Russia fail to produce anything of substance, we report how Emmanuel Macr...

Putin vows revenge after oil tanker blown up in Mediterranean & EU plugs Kyiv’s €90bn budget black hole

19 Dec 2025

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Day 1,394.Today, as the dust settles on the critical overnight deal in Brussels to loan €90 billion to Ukraine, we report on another strike against ...

Putin: European leaders are ‘pigs’ who will be replaced & the race against time to plug Ukraine’s financial black hole

18 Dec 2025

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Day 1,393.Today, as EU leaders meet to decide what – if anything – to do with frozen Russian assets, we examine just how consequential this moment...

Russia: Trump has ‘promised us Ukrainian territory’

17 Dec 2025

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Day 1,392.Today, as Russia attempts to insist that one of its $400 million submarines was not destroyed by a Ukrainian sea drone — in a manner that ...

US offers Ukraine ‘platinum’ NATO-style security guarantees in ‘breakthrough’ & Kyiv blows up $400m Russian submarine with underwater drones

16 Dec 2025

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Day 1,391.Today, we assess what some are calling a “breakthrough” in talks between Europe, Ukraine, and the United States, after reports that Wash...

Zelensky gives up NATO ambitions in peace deal ‘concession’ & the missile-sized weak spot in Russia’s air defenses

15 Dec 2025

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Day 1,390.Today, after another weekend of intense diplomatic activity, we take you to Berlin, where President Zelensky is meeting the American delegat...

BONUS: ‘Russia fears one thing above all’, with Christopher Miller, Dr Jack Watling & Orysia Lutsevych OBE

13 Dec 2025

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Today, in a special bonus episode, we bring you a panel Francis Dearnley recently moderated at the Frontline Club in London – a renowned meeting pla...

NATO chief: Prepare for war with Russia

12 Dec 2025

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Day 1,387.Today, as Russia attempts to convince the world – or at least Donald Trump – that they are inexorably taking territory, President Zelens...

Ukraine launches massive drone blitz on Moscow & cripple shadow fleet tanker in Black Sea

11 Dec 2025

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Day 1,386.Today, as Ukraine fires hundreds of drones into Russia – forcing the closure of all major Moscow airports – we report on how the maritim...

Trump: Zelensky has until Christmas to accept peace deal & the new deadly shadow war of assassinations and hybrid attacks

10 Dec 2025

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Day 1,385.Today, as Commander Syrskyi claims Ukraine has regained several kilometres of the frontline around Pokrovsk, we examine the format of the Eu...

Trump’s Ukraine peace deal 'on brink of collapse' as US President tears into 'stupid, weak' European leaders

09 Dec 2025

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Day 1,384.Today, as President Zelensky appears to reject Donald Trump’s proposal for Ukraine to cede territory to Moscow, we examine the new Europea...

European leaders and Zelensky in London searching for 'new phase' to peace talks

08 Dec 2025

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Day 1,383.Today, after a weekend marked by continued talks in Florida between the Ukrainian and American delegations and President Donald Trump’s co...

Russian seaport near Kerch bridge 'explodes' & war drones fly towards Zelensky’s plane

05 Dec 2025

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Day 1,380.Today, we report on revelations from a European leaders’ conference call, exposing the level of anxiety over the US peace proposals, cover...

Battle for Pokrovsk 'over', claims Russia & Putin ordered spy poisoning 'as show of Russian power'

04 Dec 2025

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Day 1,379.Today, after Tuesday’s inconsequential meeting in Moscow, Ukrainian negotiators are updating European counterparts on Kyiv’s response be...

Putin launches huge drone attack after rejecting Trump’s peace deal

03 Dec 2025

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Day 1,378.Today, as the world reacts to the marathon – but ultimately fruitless – talks in Moscow on Tuesday night, we examine how the impasse wil...

Ukraine strikes Chechen special forces ahead of Putin-Witkoff talks & Russian troops ‘sent to slaughter’ without helmets or armour

02 Dec 2025

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Day 1,377.Today, on a national day of mourning in Ukraine after a single ballistic missile strike killed four people and injured forty more, we report...

Drone boats blow up Russian oil tankers & missile blitz leaves 600,000 without power

01 Dec 2025

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Day 1,375.Today, after a fresh round of talks between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Miami, we examine a new investigation exposing the Tru...

Exclusive: Trump hands Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories & Putin says ‘Russia ready to fight until last Ukrainian dies’

28 Nov 2025

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Day 1,373.Today, in a world exclusive, we report how Donald Trump is preparing to hand over Ukraine’s occupied territories, as his team prepares to ...

US row intensifies as Trump team demands Ukraine agree deal 'before security guarantees' & Ukrainian counterattack recaptures key positions in Pokrovsk

27 Nov 2025

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Day 1,372.Today, as Thanksgiving is marked in the United States – and supposedly the day by which Ukraine was meant to agree to a peace deal, a dead...

Trump: Putin is ‘making concessions’ in peace talks & US envoy Witcoff coaches Kremlin negotiator in leaked call

26 Nov 2025

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Day 1,371.Today, as a leaked call reveals that Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy to Russia, coached a Kremlin negotiator on how to make Donald Trump...

Breaking: Zelensky ‘agrees’ to Trump’s amended peace deal – but is all as it seems?

25 Nov 2025

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Day 1,370.Today, as the United States holds secret talks with separate Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi, we unpack the emerging 19-point...

Trump peace plan ‘written by Russia’ & explosion as power plant struck near Moscow

24 Nov 2025

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Day 1,369.Today, after a historic weekend, as US and Ukrainian delegations met in Geneva to discuss the US-Russian peace proposals, we assess Europe’...

BONUS: ‘There’s no deal to be done with Putin’, with Lt General (Retired) H.R. McMaster, Boris Johnson, Michael Koffman & Sergey Vysotsky

22 Nov 2025

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Today, in a special bonus episode, we bring you a major panel from the Ukraine Freedom Summit in London, moderated by Dom and featuring a distinguishe...

Trump tells Zelensky: Sign peace deal ‘by Thursday’ or have weapons cut off

21 Nov 2025

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Day 1,366.Today, we reveal new details of the proposed American-Russian peace plan – one that would not only drastically shrink the Ukrainian army a...

Revealed: Ukraine told to accept ‘cash-for-land’ deal with Putin

20 Nov 2025

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Day 1,365.Today, we examine the proposal that has left Kyiv and Europe reeling: a US peace plan that could force Ukraine to lease part of its territor...

Russian ship fires lasers at British war plane & Trump 'in secret consultation' with Kremlin over Ukraine

19 Nov 2025

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Day 1,364.Today, as Ukraine confirms the latest use of US ATACMS missiles inside Russia and Britain tracks a Russian spy ship in UK waters, we examine...

Putin turns on his own war cheerleaders & Russia builds new naval base for Black Sea fleet

18 Nov 2025

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Day 1,363.Today, after a 17-year-old girl was killed and 9 others injured in an overnight Russian missile attack in Kharkiv Oblast, we return to the d...

Ship ablaze after surprise attack on Danube port; 'sabotage' as explosion hits Polish railway track & surviving Putin's gulags

17 Nov 2025

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Day 1,362.Today, as Poland reports sabotage on vital rail links connecting it to Ukraine and Romania evacuates civilians after Russian strikes across ...

Global oil prices spike by 2% after ‘shattering’ strike on Russian port & exclusive interview with deputy head of Zelensky’s office

14 Nov 2025

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Day 1,359.Today, as one of Russia’s largest oil terminals burns following an overnight strike, we report on yet another aerial blitz on Kyiv and ass...

Biggest corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency rattles country & Polish civilians arm themselves in case of Russian invasion

13 Nov 2025

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Day 1,359.Today, as Ukraine launches more projectiles at Russia than it receives in return, we examine the worsening situation on the ground in the Za...

Calls for conscription age to be lowered as manpower shortage leaves Ukrainian city ‘on the brink’ & special forces launch 'fire attack' on major Russian petrochemical plant

12 Nov 2025

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Day 1,358.As Ukrainian forces struggle against overwhelming Russian manpower in the Zaporizhzhya region, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko calls for the con...

Motorcyclists slip into frontline Pokrovsk under cover of fog

11 Nov 2025

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Day 1,357.Today, the battle for Pokrovsk continues to rage on with 300 Russian soldiers now in the city, pressing forward to the north. We discuss the...

Energy war forces blackouts in Russia and Ukraine amid Putin’s manpower crisis

10 Nov 2025

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Day 1,356Today, after weekend strikes on energy facilities in both countries left blackouts in Russia and Ukraine, we report how Moscow now seems to b...

Moscow slams Ukraine with new glide bombs as Lavrov's future in doubt

07 Nov 2025

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Day 1,353.Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits President Trump in Washington, a few weeks after the collapse of the Budapest meeting wi...

Ukraine blitzes Shahed drone factory as Russia sends disabled soldiers to die

06 Nov 2025

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Day 1,352.Today, as more and more Russian forces flow into Pokrovsk, Ukrainian soldiers manage to fly a Ukraine flag on the city council’s building....

The Ukrainian spy who fooled Moscow & interview with a frontline drone unit commander

05 Nov 2025

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Day 1,351.Today, as reports from Pokrovsk indicate Russian troops now hold positions across nearly the entire city, prosecutors in Kharkiv launch a ne...

Ukraine strikes elite Russian unit on Black Sea oil rig & rescues camel from overrun Russian position

04 Nov 2025

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Day 1,350.Today, as fierce fighting continues around Pokrovsk and Ukrainian forces strike energy facilities inside Russia, we report on a surge in Ame...

Ukraine special forces launch Black Hawk helicopter raid to stop Russian encirclement & exclusive interview with former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg

03 Nov 2025

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Day 1,349.Today, as reports emerge that General Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, travelled to the embattled frontline city of Pokro...

Strike sets thermal power plant ‘ablaze’ inside Russia & shooting at draft office in Ukraine leaves two soldiers injured

31 Oct 2025

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Day 1,346.Today, as Ukrainian forces hang on in Pokrovsk, we discuss more reports coming out of the city of Russian troops fighting in civilian clothe...

Pentagon to 'immediately' test nuclear weapons & Russia fires 705 missiles and drones at Ukraine in 'vile attack'

30 Oct 2025

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Day 1,345.Today, as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in South Korea, we ask whether Ukraine can ever expect China to face real consequences for its su...

Ukraine ‘torches’ key Russian oil facilities & the motorway to save NATO from invasion

29 Oct 2025

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Day 1,344.Today, as the situation around the frontline city of Pokrovsk continues to worsen, we examine Ukraine’s latest wave of deep strikes target...

Russian troops ‘forced to swim’ after Ukraine blows up dam & 15 armoured vehicles destroyed in fierce battle outside Pokrovsk

28 Oct 2025

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Day 1,343.Today, as the fierce battle for Pokrovsk rages on – with Russian troops now inside the city and 15 armoured vehicles destroyed on its outs...

Putin tests 'invincible' nuclear missile & Serhii Plokhy on the new arms race

27 Oct 2025

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Day 1,342.Today, after a weekend of Russian bombardments on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities – with fires killing multiple civilians – we examine M...

SPECIAL: ‘We are all in danger now’ - Putin's brutal invasion three and a half years on, with General Sir Richard Barrons and Orysia Lutsevych OBE

25 Oct 2025

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In this special live episode recorded at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, we take stock of the war as it grinds into its fourth calendar ye...

NATO scrambles fighter jets after Russian planes violate Lithuania’s airspace & deal collapses to hand Kyiv €140bn in frozen Kremlin assets

24 Oct 2025

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Day 1,339.Today, as President Zelensky meets the Coalition of the Willing in London, we discuss the shock felt in Brussels after European countries fa...

Trump sanctions ‘an act of war’, says Moscow, as US lifts restrictions on long-range European missiles

23 Oct 2025

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Day 1,338.Today, as Donald Trump unveils sweeping new sanctions on Russia’s energy giants, we analyse what recent developments reveal about the shif...

Children rescued from kindergarten hit by drone & Putin defies Trump to wreck Budapest peace talks

22 Oct 2025

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Day 1,337.Today, after Vladimir Putin defied Donald Trump to wreck the proposed Budapest peace talks, we report how overnight attacks ended with child...

Trapped Russian troops 'blown apart' fleeing by boat & Trump's summit with Putin in Hungary threatened as Europe pulls rank

21 Oct 2025

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Day 1,336.Today, amid growing signs the planned Trump-Putin summit in Hungary is already in jeopardy, we assess a breakthrough in Europe that could se...

Trump tells Ukraine: Accept Putin’s demands ‘or be destroyed’

20 Oct 2025

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Day 1,335.Today, as the world digests the outcome of the White House meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, we examine why th...

Trump to meet Putin in Budapest in ‘huge blow’ to Europe & North Korean troops direct Russian strikes into Ukraine

17 Oct 2025

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Day 1,332.Today, as President Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House, we unpack Vladimir Putin’s emergency – if predictable – interventi...

Crowds in St Petersburg sing about overthrowing Putin

16 Oct 2025

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Day 1,331.Today, as President Zelensky heads to Washington for another high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump, we break down the latest from the frontl...

Drug gangs hone drone skills in Ukraine's foreign legion as US warns Russia of “consequences” on eve of latest weapons meeting

15 Oct 2025

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Day 1,330.Today, as NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels with the US representative to NATO warning Russia of “consequences” if the Kremlin doe...

Trump: 'Now let’s end the Ukraine war' after Gaza triumph & UN convoy attacked by Russian forces in Ukraine

14 Oct 2025

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Day 1,329.Today, as Donald Trump vows to harness the momentum of the Gaza ceasefire to bring peace to Ukraine, we examine global reaction – or the s...

'5 tanks hit' in gigantic blaze at Russia's largest oil terminal in Crimea & US intel 'guided' Ukraine’s strikes on energy sites

13 Oct 2025

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Day 1,328.Today, as we learn the Donald Trump administration has been sharing intelligence enabling Kyiv to strike at Russian energy facilities, we re...

‘Massive’ Russian attack knocks out Kyiv energy grid & what Gaza ceasefire means for Ukraine

10 Oct 2025

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Day 1,325.Today, after another wave of intense Russian bombardments, we explore what the Gaza ceasefire could mean for the war. Will it bring renewed ...

Stowaway drone sneaks into Russian base atop military vehicle & Russia announces 'retaliation' in case of nuclear testing

09 Oct 2025

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Day 1,324.Today, Ukraine hits yet another pipeline and oil plant, while fuel shortage in Russia approaches 20 percent. Meanwhile, more than half of Uk...

Russian gas production ‘buckles’ under Ukrainian strikes & Kremlin enforces blackout on foreign SIM cards

08 Oct 2025

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Day 1,323Today, as Moscow tightens restrictions on gas sales and mobile networks amid Ukraine’s escalating campaign against Moscow’s oil industry,...

The mini-missiles designed to ram Putin’s drones out of the sky & head of a Kremlin-linked publishing house ‘falls out of a window’

07 Oct 2025

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Day 1,322Today, we examine the escalating conflict in Ukraine after another night of bombardments, looking at the potential impact of US Tomahawk miss...

Russian cruise missile ship 'hit' in asymmetric attack & 'hellfire' rains down on Lviv and Belgorod

06 Oct 2025

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Day 1,321.Today, we break down Ukraine’s escalating drone war targeting Russian industry and examine how Ukrainian intelligence claims China supplie...

'Chaos' as drones ground flights in Germany & Ukraine hits refinery 1400km inside Russia

03 Oct 2025

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Day 1,318.Today, after yet another drone incursion forces the closure of a major European airport - this time in Germany - we examine growing calls fr...

Trump shares intelligence for long-range strikes on Russia & Crimea's governor 'hacked'

02 Oct 2025

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Day 1,317.Today, as Donald Trump reportedly provides Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes against Russia, we assess just how serio...

'Critical' power outage at nuclear plant sparks fears & special interview with UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture

01 Oct 2025

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Day 1,316.Today, as fears are sounded over the state of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we hear how Princess Anne has made a surprise visit to K...

Petraeus: Unmanned killer submarines can win war for Ukraine & Kyiv assassinates another Russian officer

30 Sep 2025

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Day 1,315.Today, Ukraine assassinates a Russian senior officer from the National Guard and Moscow launches the biggest autumn conscription round since...

Tomahawk missiles ‘on the table’ from Trump & Russia humiliated by election in Moldova

29 Sep 2025

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Day 1,314.Today, amid heavy assaults on Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia, while Ukraine attacks more energy sites deep inside Russia, we hear about the evacuatio...

Gas shortages ‘finally’ hit Moscow as Kyiv intensifies strikes on refineries & David Knowles on the largest Nazi massacre in Ukraine

26 Sep 2025

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Day 1,311.Today, as Ukraine’s bombardments against Russian energy facilities finally spark gas shortages in Moscow, we assess the gaping hole in Eur...

Ukraine ravage Russian aircraft and radar stations in occupied Crimea & Denmark reports ‘hybrid attack’ on major airport

25 Sep 2025

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Day 1,310.Today, as drones once again cause alarm in Denmark, and Ukrainian strikes inside Russia add to Vladimir Putin’s fuel woes, we report on Pr...

Trump tells Ukraine: ‘Take back all your land... then go further’

24 Sep 2025

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Day 1,309.Today, as the world digests Donald Trump's apparent U-turn on support for Ukraine, we examine developments in New York. Plus, we hear about ...

NATO and Russia edge closer to standoff & exclusive interview with mother of Ukrainian child adopted by Putin ally

23 Sep 2025

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Day 1,308.Today, amid more violations of European airspace by Moscow, we assess the reactions of NATO, including extraordinary remarks by the Polish d...

Ukrainian raid destroys Mi-8 helicopters in Crimea & Poland scrambles jets as Russia bombs Ukraine

22 Sep 2025

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Day 1,307.Today, as the UN Security Council debates Russia’s latest airspace violations, we ask why Estonia held fire – unlike Turkey in 2015 – ...

Ukraine 'liberates' 160 square kilometers in counteroffensive in Donetsk & night-time raid destroys Russian multi-purpose vehicle

19 Sep 2025

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Day 1,304.Today, as President Zelensky claims Ukraine has liberated 160 square kilometers in a 'counteroffensive operation' in Donetsk, we hear live f...

Huge explosions across Russia as Ukraine blows up more key oil facilities & ‘massive losses’ reported around Kupyansk

18 Sep 2025

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Day 1,303.Today, as Russian troops continue to advance in Kupyansk, bringing fighting inside the city, Ukraine strikes an oil complex more than 800 mi...

Putin flies in for final shots of Zapad 25, but where’s Gerasimov?

17 Sep 2025

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Day 1,302.Today, Donald Trump arrives in Britain for his second state visit, possibly bringing a gift to Ukraine. Putin watches the last blast of Zapa...

Kyiv’s “Revenge operation” hits Russia’s far east as RAF commits Typhoons to NATO’s flank

16 Sep 2025

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Day 1,301.Today, we report on Kyiv’s so-called “revenge operation” targeting Russian forces said to have been involved in war crimes, we hear li...

F-16s chase Russian drone in Romania & Ukrainian saboteurs derail trains, blow up Russian soldiers

15 Sep 2025

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Day 1,300.Today, we unpack what happened in Romania over the weekend, where a Russian drone flew into its airspace for almost an hour. And we look at ...

How Trump's purges weaken the CIA & Russian ship on fire after drone hit

12 Sep 2025

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The original edit of this podcast episode stated that Europe was close to a trade deal with Russia. This was a misspeak and should have said Europe wa...

'Putin is testing us' says Healey & NATO determines drone incursion 'not an attack' on Poland

11 Sep 2025

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Day 1,296.Today, we continue to unpack NATO’s response to the incursion of 19 Russian drones into Polish airspace. We hear the latest news from the ...

NATO engages Russia for first time after drone attack on Poland

10 Sep 2025

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Day 1,295.Today, in a historic moment for Europe, NATO fighter jets shoot down Russian drones over Poland in the first ever direct engagement between ...

Explosions put 3 Russian pipelines 'out of action' & headless corpse of Russian CEO discovered

09 Sep 2025

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Day 1,294.Today, as Ukraine strikes yet more oil and gas facilities deep inside Russia, we hear how Donald Trump has deported dozens of political refu...

Putin launches largest air attack of the war & remembering David Knowles

08 Sep 2025

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Day 1,293.Today, as Ukraine suffers the largest air attack of the war, killing four and setting dozens of buildings on fire in Kyiv, including the mai...

Huge explosion at ‘vital’ Russia oil refinery & how China secretly arms Russia with drones

05 Sep 2025

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Day 1,290.Today, after another important Coalition of the Willing summit in Paris, we discuss Vladimir Putin’s warning that any Western peacekeeping...

Ukraine destroys Russian speedboat as it tries to land troops & hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing immortality

04 Sep 2025

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Day 1,289.Today, as the Coalition of the Willing meets to discuss security guarantees in Paris, we hear live from Prague minutes after the speech of N...

Russia and North Korea fighting ‘Nazism’ in Ukraine, says Putin in first meeting with Kim Jong-un & exclusive interview with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy

03 Sep 2025

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Day 1,288.Today, as China unveils new weapons at the huge military parade in Beijing attended by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jon...

Ukrainian troops destroy ‘all Russian positions’ to liberate town & EU chief's plane 'forced to land blind after Moscow jams GPS’

02 Sep 2025

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Day 1,287.Today, as a Nato leader meets with Vladimir Putin while Ukraine is subjected to the latest wave of Russian drone strikes, we look at the ong...

Trump in talks to deploy private army to Ukraine & exclusive interview with Phillips O'Brien

01 Sep 2025

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Day 1,286.Today, we offer the most comprehensive version yet of the peace plan taking shape behind closed doors, as the Europeans ask Donald Trump to ...

Zelensky urges ceasefire as UN Security Council convenes after Russian attack on Kyiv

29 Aug 2025

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Day 1,283.Today, we continue reporting on the attack on Kyiv, which Zelensky called “a strike by Russia against President Trump”, and we hear abou...

Two weeks after the red carpet in Alaska, Putin kills at least 17 in second biggest strike of the war

28 Aug 2025

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Day 1,282.Today, we hear from on the ground in Kyiv after a massive strike last night damaged the British Council and the EU mission, after Ukraine hi...

America ‘offers’ air and intelligence support to postwar force in Ukraine & Russian oil terminals 'continue to burn', destroying 17% capacity

27 Aug 2025

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Day 1,281.Today, we discuss reports that the US has offered air and intelligence support to a postwar force in Ukraine, the impact of strikes on Russi...

Ukrainian strikes push Russia to brink of oil catastrophe

26 Aug 2025

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Day 1,280.Today, as continued Ukrainian attacks are said to have depleted Russian oil production by the equivalent of a million barrels a day, Donald ...

Special: Drones, AI, and the New Rules of War

25 Aug 2025

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Today is a public holiday in Britain, so we bring you a special panel Francis Dearnley hosted during his trip to Germany at the LANDEURO conference ho...

Moscow hoards troops for renewed offensive while Trump continues to extend Putin’s deadline

22 Aug 2025

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Day 1,276.Today, as Ukraine strikes again inside occupied Crimea and in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossisk, we report how Moscow appears to be ...

Russia bombs American factory in one of war’s largest attacks, defying Trump peace efforts

21 Aug 2025

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Day 1,275.Today, as Russia’s foreign minister accuses the Coalition of the Willing of “undermining” efforts to secure peace in Ukraine – comme...

US air force ‘could police Ukraine's skies’ as 10 European nations 'ready' to send peacekeeping forces & the numbers that show Russia is years from victory

20 Aug 2025

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Day 1,274.Today, as President Donald Trump says the US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal, we assess reports that as many as 10 Euro...

Ukraine ‘offers Trump $100bn arms deal’ for security guarantees & leaders debate venues for Putin-Zelensky talks

19 Aug 2025

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Day 1,273.Today, as we get more clarity on what the Europeans proposed to Donald Trump in the historic White House summit yesterday, we hear the lates...

BONUS: Putin and Zelensky to meet within two weeks & US 'to protect Ukraine as part of a peace deal'

19 Aug 2025

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In this special episode, recorded just after an unprecedented White House summit, we analyse the impact on President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Europe...

‘One of the most vital days since the Soviet Union collapsed’: Russia kills civilians as Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining NATO ahead of Zelensky White House talks

18 Aug 2025

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Day 1,272.Today, after the Trump and Putin summit in the United States ends without accord  – but with certain principles for peace seemingly a...

BONUS: Putin and Trump fail to reach Ukraine peace deal

16 Aug 2025

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In a special episode recorded just minutes after the summit in Alaska between Presidents Putin and Trump, we discuss what it was like in the room, and...

Putin ‘to test nuclear missiles’ ahead of Trump Alaska summit

15 Aug 2025

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Day 1,269.Today, as the world awaits what some say could be the most consequential summit for Europe since the end of the Second World War, we hear th...

Trump proposes West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine & offers Putin minerals for peace

14 Aug 2025

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Day 1,268.Today, as reports suggest Russian advances near Pokrovsk have “stalled”, we hear the contrasting European and American positions as we a...