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Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,464.
Today, we bring you live dispatches from the north, east, and south of Ukraine following fresh Russian attacks overnight, as a United States delegation meets Ukrainian officials to prepare the next round of trilateral peace talks with Russia in Geneva. We also provide the latest updates on resistance activities in the occupied territories, and take a broader look at the state of Russian society after four years of Putin’s full-scale war – including the impact of sanctions, suppression, economic strain and, yes, updates on skyrocketing cucumber prices.
Contributors
Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @adeliepjz on X.
Dr Jade McGlynn (War Studies Department of King's College). @DrJadeMcGlynn on X.
James Kilner (Russia Analyst). @jkjourno on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Russians load up on antidepressants after four years of war (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/15/russians-antidepressants-war-ukraine-prozac-putin/
Traumatised and unable to speak: The Ukrainian children haunted by war (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/27/traumatised-ukrainian-children-haunted-by-war/
Paratroopers prepare for possible Ukraine peacekeeping mission (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/26/paratroopers-prepare-for-possible-ukraine-peacekeeping/
Is the Trump-Starmer bromance over? (The Spectator):
https://spectator.com/article/has-it-all-gone-wrong-between-trump-and-starmer/?edition=us
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Francis Dernley. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Don Nichols. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm Adelie Pogne Ponce. |
| 0:14.4 | And this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, we bring you dispatches from northern, eastern and southern Ukraine following fresh |
| 0:21.4 | Russian attacks overnight, as the US delegation meets Ukrainian officials to prepare for |
| 0:26.5 | the next round of trilateral peace talks in Geneva. We also provide the latest updates on |
| 0:32.0 | resistance activities in the Russian occupied territories and take a broader look at the state |
| 0:36.6 | of Russian society after four years |
| 0:39.2 | of Putin's war, including the impact of sanctions, economic strain, and yes, reports of even |
| 0:46.9 | higher prices for cucumbers. |
| 0:50.3 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:00.1 | The Russia does not want peace. |
| 1:01.9 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 1:09.3 | Writers. |
| 1:10.6 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:14.5 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:19.6 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:24.1 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:26.1 | We're strong. |
| 1:27.4 | We're Ukraine is. It's Friday to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
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