Drone hit apartment block in deadly Russian raid on Kyiv & North Korea sends troops to help Putin rebuild Kursk
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,211.
Today, as the death toll from Monday night’s strike on Kyiv climbs, we report reaction from the United States, plus why we should be paying attention to the St Petersburg Economic Forum and how Moscow has taken aim at Britain’s new head of MI6.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former British Army Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X
James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @jkjourno on X.
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Content Referenced:
Kim Jong-un will send troops to help Putin rebuild Kursk (The Telegraph):
Ukraine's parliament passes state asset agency reform crucial for EU funding (Kyiv Independent):
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-parliament-passes-state-asset-agency-reform-key-to-eu-funding/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Dom Nichols, and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:11.1 | Today is the death toll for Monday night's strike on Kiev Climes, |
| 0:14.8 | we report reaction from the United States, |
| 0:17.5 | plus why we should be paying attention to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, |
| 0:21.8 | and we hear how Moscow has taken aim at Britain's new head of MI6. |
| 0:27.9 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:37.7 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:39.4 | With our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 0:44.5 | wreaths. |
| 0:45.3 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:49.3 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:54.3 | We can't as European, let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.6 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:03.4 | It's Wednesday, the 18th of June, three years and 115 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:10.2 | And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's former |
| 1:12.1 | Russia correspondent James Kilner and chemical weapons expert and former tank unit commander |
| 1:17.2 | Hamish to Bretton Gordon. I started with the latest military and political updates. |
| 1:23.8 | Let's go back to Kiev, the death toll from the overnight strikes Monday Tuesday, that's the third largest combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, has increased today to 28, with nearly 150 injured. |
| 1:39.3 | Kiev City Mayor Vitaliklchko said remnants of cluster munitions had been found at the site of some of the impacts, cluster munitions in civilian areas. |
| 1:49.2 | Interior Minister Iho Clemenko, yesterday had revised the death toll down to 10, but that number subsequently went back up, explaining the confusion over the numbers, and to give you an idea of what lies behind |
| 2:03.3 | these grim statistics that get reported every day, Mr Komenko said that operational data may change |
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