Don’t forget about the war in Ukraine.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On May 8, President Donald Trump announced Russia and Ukraine agreed to a three-day ceasefire. Both sides accused the other of violating the truce, and heightened strikes resumed when it ended on May 11. Over the weekend, Ukraine conducted an overnight drone attack on Russia, including strikes in Moscow, killing at least four and injuring 12, according to local officials. The Ukrainian military launched over 1,300 drones in the attack, which Russian state media called the worst in a year. The offensive followed last week’s large-scale Russian bombardment that killed at least 24 Ukrainians and injured dozens more.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:17.4 | Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of our take. I'm your host for today's episode, Tangle's managing editor, Ari Weitzman. And today we're going to be talking about an update to the war in Ukraine. But first, before we get there, I want to give you an important update on an upcoming live event that Tang was going to be hosting. We're going to be coming |
| 0:42.8 | to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia on June 13th and 14th for a special VIP dinner and a live |
| 0:48.9 | taping of our weekly podcast suspension of the rules, where I'm usually joined by our executive |
| 0:54.0 | editor, Isaac Saul, |
| 0:55.5 | and our editor at large, Camille Foster, to talk about all that's going on in the world of |
| 1:00.2 | U.S. politics. Tickets are on sale now. We'll put a link to where you can get them in our show |
| 1:05.1 | notes for this episode. And again, that is going to be June 13th and 14th at the historic Star Theater in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. |
| 1:14.8 | It's not that far from D.C., Pittsburgh, Philly, Maryland, even Ohio, New Jersey, North Carolina. |
| 1:21.6 | If you're in the area, you should definitely check it out. |
| 1:23.9 | It's a cool town has some historical relevance. |
| 1:26.8 | George Washington's brother Lawrence |
| 1:28.3 | used to go there to recover from illnesses. And now you can go there to watch us talk. We'll hope to |
| 1:34.2 | see you there in June. But today we're talking about the war in Ukraine. So I'm going to send it over |
| 1:38.8 | to our associate editor, Audrey Moorhead, to give us a rundown of that topic, and I'll be back here for my take. |
| 1:52.3 | Thanks, Ari. First up, we have today's quick hits. Number one, the Department of Justice |
| 1:58.3 | unsealed a grand jury indictment against Raul Castro, the former president of Cuba. |
| 2:03.7 | Castro was indicted on murder charges related to a 1996 aircraft shootdown that killed four people, |
| 2:09.5 | including three Americans. Separately, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in the Caribbean this week. |
| 2:17.6 | Number two. James Murdoch's Lupa Systems announced it will acquire New York |
| 2:22.2 | Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network, including Vox.com, in a deal valued at $300 million. |
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