Drone boats blow up Russian oil tankers & missile blitz leaves 600,000 without power
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,376.
Today, after a fresh round of talks between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Miami, we examine a new investigation exposing the Trump administration’s profit motives behind the emerging proposals. We then assess the resignation of Andriy Yermak, formerly Zelensky’s right-hand man, and the unexpected intervention of former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi – viewed as preparing for a presidential run after the war. Afterwards, we analyse Kyiv’s decision to strike the Russian shadow fleet off the coast of Senegal, and how Europe – and France in particular – is positioning itself for this next, volatile phase.
Contributors
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Valerii Zaluzhnyi: How to defeat Putin and build a better Ukraine (The Telegraph):
Zelensky meets Macron in Paris (The Telegraph Live Blog):
Ukrainian drone boats blow up Russian oil tankers (The Telegraph):
Zelensky’s chief of staff goes to front line after resigning over corruption scandal (The Telegraph):
Kyiv’s new peace talks chief caught in same corruption scandal as ousted predecessor (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/30/ukraine-make-or-break-week-survival-witkoff/
Antony Beevor: For Russia, conspicuous cruelty is a necessary weapon of war (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/30/antony-beevor-interview/
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal):
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Adelie Pogman-Ponte and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, after a fresh round of talks between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Miami, |
| 0:19.0 | we examine a new investigation that exposes the Trump |
| 0:22.7 | administration's profit motives behind the emerging proposals. |
| 0:27.8 | We then assess the resignation of Andrea Yermak, formerly Zelensky's right-hand man, and |
| 0:32.9 | the unexpected intervention, a former commander-in-chief Valeris Lusini, viewed as preparing for a presidential |
| 0:39.2 | run after the war. Afterwards, we analyze Kiev's decision to strike the Russian shadow fleet |
| 0:45.5 | off the coast of Senegal and how Europe and France in particular is positioning itself for this |
| 0:51.3 | next volatile phase. Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:04.1 | The Russia does not want peace. |
| 1:05.8 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine also our freedom and our European |
| 1:12.6 | Writers. |
| 1:14.6 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:18.6 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:23.6 | We can not, as Europeans, |
| 1:25.6 | let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:28.1 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:30.1 | We're strong. |
| 1:31.4 | We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:34.0 | It's Monday, the 1st of December. |
| 1:37.4 | Three years and 282 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
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