France seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker & Ukrainian drones dominate skies over occupied cities
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,557.
Today, after a weekend that saw Russian ships hit by drones, hit by drones and hit by drones again, it ended with another Russian ship being seized by abseiling Frenchmen. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s “logistics lockdown” continued, leading to fuel rationing in Crimea and more Russian oil refineries self-sanctioning in very dramatic ways; no wonder Putin’s Finance Minister has said Russia’s spending on the war has gone two trillion rubles over budget.
Contributors:
Dom Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
Sophie O’Sullivan (Telegraph journalist).
Adelie Pojzman-Pontay (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @adeliepjz on X.
With thanks to Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis (Associate Professor of engineering at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at UCL). @DrMitoulis on X.
Producer: Rachel Porter
Senior Producer: Lilian Fawcett
Video Producer: Sophie O’Sullivan
Social Producer: Gezim Hilaj
Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Executive Editor: Francis Dearnley
Created by David Knowles
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Russia overspends on Putin’s war in Ukraine by $28bn (The Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/93674b5c-06ea-4e49-a005-dc08e1091574?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Inside the schools preparing Ukrainian children for war (The Telegraph)
For more information on Professor Mitoulis’s work, follow the links below:
Bridge Ukraine: https://bridgeukraine.org/
Meta Infrastructure: https://metainfrastructure.org/
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- France seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker in mission Moscow calls ‘piracy’
- Ukrainian drones dominate skies over occupied cities
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Domnickles and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, a weekend that saw Russian ships hit by drones, hit by drones and hit by drones again, ended with another Russian ship being seized by abseiling Frenchmen. |
| 0:23.2 | Meanwhile, Ukraine's logistics lockdown continued, leading to fuel rationing in Crimea, |
| 0:28.4 | and more Russian oil refineries self-sanctioning in a very dramatic way. |
| 0:32.8 | No wonder Putin's finance minister has said Russia's spending on the war has gone two trillion |
| 0:37.7 | rubles over budget. |
| 0:40.1 | Bravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:49.8 | The Russian is not one fees. |
| 0:51.6 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine |
| 0:55.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 0:59.0 | WERET. |
| 1:00.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:04.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:09.0 | We can not, as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:13.9 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:15.9 | We're strong. |
| 1:17.1 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:19.8 | It's Monday the 1st of June, four years and 97 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:24.9 | And today, I'm joined by a telegraph journalist, Sophia O'Sullivan. Now the big news in the last 24 hours is that France has boarded and seized a |
| 1:32.9 | sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the Atlantic. During the naval operation, which was supported by |
| 1:38.0 | Britain, heavily armed troops repelled onto the vessel from a military helicopter 400 nautical |
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