'Critical' power outage at nuclear plant sparks fears & special interview with UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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 Kyiv to “demonstrate solidarity” with Ukrainian children and families affected by the conflict. Then we report how French authorities have seized a shadow fleet tanker and Polish police arrested a Ukrainian man for the Nordstream 2 pipeline sabotage. Later, you’ll hear Dom’s interview with the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Torture, Alice Edwards, and a note: our discussion covers graphic descriptions of sexual torture.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
India McTaggart (Royal Correspondent). @indiamctaggart on X.
With special thanks to Alice Edwards.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Domnichols and this is Ukraine the latest. Today, as fears are sounded over the state of the |
| 0:15.7 | Zaporizia nuclear power plant, we hear how Princess Anne has made a surprise visit to Keeve to demonstrate solidarity |
| 0:22.2 | with Ukrainian children and families affected by the war. We report that French authorities |
| 0:27.6 | have seized a shadow fleet tanker and Polish police have arrested a Ukrainian man for the Nord Stream |
| 0:33.3 | 2 pipeline sabotage. And later, you'll hear my interview with the UN's special rapporteur for torture, |
| 0:39.2 | Alice Edwards. |
| 0:40.1 | And a note, our discussion covers graphic descriptions of sexual torture. |
| 0:44.7 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:56.0 | The Russian does not want, please. With our help for the Ukraine, also our |
| 0:58.0 | freedom and our European |
| 1:01.0 | Writers. |
| 1:02.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:06.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:11.1 | We can't as a European, |
| 1:13.4 | let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:15.4 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:17.5 | We're strong. |
| 1:18.7 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:20.5 | It's Wednesday the 1st of October, |
| 1:23.0 | three years and 221 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:26.6 | And today, I'm joined by Ingeum |
| 1:28.8 | Tagger, the Telegraph's Royal Correspondent. We started with the latest news from Ukraine. |
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