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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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Day 1,182.
Today, as Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Kursk after the Kremlin erroneously claimed all Ukrainian soldiers had been completely pushed out of the territory, we look at the latest deep strikes on Russian infrastructure, hear from an ambulance convoy in Ukraine, and speak to a central advisor of the European Union on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor for Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to Brock Bierman (Founder of the non-profit Ukraine Focus).
And Bob Dean (Head of the Security Unit of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations)
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Content Referenced:
Learn more about ‘Ukraine Focus’, delivering ambulances to Ukraine:
https://ukrainefocus.org/programs/zelensky-truck/
Ukraine has shown you can now buy an intelligence agency off the shelf (Ben Wallace in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/20/intelligence-agencies-no-longer-just-for-governments/
Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem (New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html
Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine (New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/russian-troops-peace-putin.html
Losing friends, fast (POLITICO):
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/losing-friends-fast/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Francis Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, as Putin makes his first visit to Kursk, after the Kremlin erroneously claimed all Ukrainian soldiers have been pushed out, we look at the latest deep |
| 0:21.7 | strikes on Russian infrastructure, here from an ambulance convoy in Ukraine and speak to a central |
| 0:27.6 | advisor of the EU on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations. |
| 0:31.6 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:42.3 | The Russia does not want peace. |
| 0:44.3 | With our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 0:50.3 | Worship. If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:55.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:00.0 | We can't as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:04.0 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. |
| 1:07.0 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:09.0 | It's Wednesday, the 21st of May. three years and 87 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:16.4 | And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor of Defense, Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:20.4 | dialing in live from Ukraine, former assistant administrator of USAID and founder of the non-profit Ukraine Focus, |
| 1:27.0 | Brock Bierman, and later, Bob Dean, head of the security unit of the non-profit Ukraine Focus, Brock Bierman, and later Bob Dean, |
| 1:30.0 | head of the security unit of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. |
| 1:34.5 | But first, over to Dom, for the latest on military developments. |
| 1:38.7 | Thanks, Francis. Let's start in Ukraine, then move out from there. You'll see why I've done it in |
| 1:43.1 | that order in a moment. So yesterday in Ukraine, minor move out from there. You'll see why I've done it in that order in a moment. So yesterday |
| 1:45.3 | in Ukraine, minor Russian advances in the Dombast again, as has been the pattern of the last few weeks. |
| 1:51.4 | This is to the southwest of Constantinivka, where their main effort seems to have been over the last |
| 1:56.5 | few weeks. Now, also yesterday, Russian missile strike against a shooting range, a military range |
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