Moscow car bomb kills Russian General & Miami weekend talks “do not improve” peace proposal
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,397.
Today, as three days of talks in Miami between the US, Ukraine and Russia fail to produce anything of substance, we report how Emmanuel Macron may pick up the diplomatic baton with a potential phone call this week with Vladimir Putin. We report the breaking news of a car bombing in Moscow that has killed another senior Russian General and of another Ukrainian strike against Russian energy facilities in the Caspian Sea. And later, you’ll hear a report from our last trip to Ukraine when we visited a prosthetics factory in Odesa.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to video producer Jack Leather.
Video version of our report on the prosthetics factory in Odesa:
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Steve Rosenberg’s actual question to Putin:
https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/2002328372253503933?s=20
Russian TV’s interaction with the fake Steve Rosenberg:
https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/2002804837486850215?s=20
Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation
Reuters: US intelligence indicates Putin's war aims in Ukraine are unchanged:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-indicates-putins-war-aims-ukraine-are-unchanged-2025-12-19/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Domnichols, and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, as three days of talks in Miami between the US, Ukraine and Russia fail to produce |
| 0:18.1 | anything of substance, we report how Emmanuel Macron may pick up the |
| 0:21.7 | diplomatic baton via a possible phone call this week with Vladimir Putin. We report the breaking news of a |
| 0:27.6 | car bombing in Moscow that has killed another senior Russian general and of another Ukrainian strike |
| 0:32.5 | against Russian energy facilities in the Caspian Sea. And later, you'll hear a report from our last trip to Ukraine when we visited a prosthetics factory in Odessa, |
| 0:41.3 | where among work to support victims of this war, I met a fellow Afghanistan veteran. |
| 0:46.3 | Only this chap have been fighting for the Soviet Union. |
| 0:49.3 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:59.9 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 1:01.7 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 1:09.4 | Writers. |
| 1:10.4 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled |
| 1:12.6 | in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:14.3 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, |
| 1:17.8 | but for 100 years. |
| 1:19.4 | We can't as European |
| 1:21.3 | let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:24.0 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:26.0 | We're strong. |
| 1:27.2 | We're Ukrainians Where Ukraine is. |
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