NATO scrambles fighter jets after Russian planes violate Lithuania’s airspace & deal collapses to hand Kyiv €140bn in frozen Kremlin assets
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,339.
Today, as President Zelensky meets the Coalition of the Willing in London, we discuss the shock felt in Brussels after European countries failed to come to a deal on the use of frozen Russian assets. We also hear the latest updates on the Ukrainian resistance, and Francis reports not from the frontline but the front row, as he attends a Ukrainian fashion show.
Contributors:
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjzon X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to Illia Riepin and the Estonian Embassy of London.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Francis’s Article on Ukrainian Fashion:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/ukraine-fashion-show-london-war-francis-dearnley/
EU’s €140bn Ukraine loan plan derailed (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/24/belgium-derails-european-union-plans-ukraine-loan/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Adeli Pojeman-Ponze, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, as President Zelensky |
| 0:16.0 | meets the coalition of the willing in London, we discussed the shock felt in Brussels after European countries failed to come to a deal |
| 0:23.5 | on the use of frozen Russian assets. |
| 0:26.7 | We also hear the latest updates on the Ukrainian resistance. |
| 0:30.7 | And Francis reports, not from the front line, |
| 0:33.2 | but from the front row, |
| 0:34.6 | as he attends a Ukrainian fashion show. |
| 0:38.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:47.8 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:49.4 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:53.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 0:57.1 | Writers. If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:02.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:07.0 | We can not, as European, let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:11.7 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:17.8 | It's Friday, the 24th of October, three years and 244 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:25.7 | Today, I'm joined by Associate Defence Editor Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:29.5 | Executive Editor for Audio Francis Dernley, |
| 1:32.1 | and researcher on the occupied territories, Ilya Rappen. |
| 1:35.5 | But first, over to Dom, for the latest military developments. |
| 1:40.2 | Let's start just up the road for my house. |
| 1:42.5 | President Zelensky's in London today, along with 20 or so other leaders for a coalition of the willing meeting. A bit more on that later. |
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