Putin claims 'all of Ukraine is ours' and threatens nuclear strike

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Day 1,216.

Today, we discuss the ramifications of the historic American strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, and how we should read Tehran's Foreign Minister’s scramble to Moscow. Plus we feature a special dispatch from Gotland, Sweden, to meet the Armed Forces’ newest outfit protecting Europe’s strategic Baltic outpost from Russia.

Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Venetia Rainey (Co-host Battle Lines podcast). @venetiarainey on X.

Content Referenced:

The tiny Swedish island regiment tasked with protecting Europe from Russia (Venetia Rainey in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/17/the-tiny-swedish-island-regiment-tasked-protecting-europe/

Our sister podcast Battle Lines, covering wider geopolitical affairs, including Iran:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/14/battle-lines-foreign-policy-geopolitics-conflict-podcast/

Spain exempt from Nato’s 5pc spending target (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/22/spain-exempt-from-nato-five-percent-spending-target-gdp/

'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski freed after US envoy visits Minsk (The Kyiv Independent):

https://kyivindependent.com/in-highest-level-visit-in-years-lukashenko-meets-us-envoy-kellogg-in-minsk/?mc_cid=bdc69312ea&mc_eid=08d0680a95

Putin spies an opportunity in Trump’s attack on Iran (The Spectator):

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putin-spies-an-opportunity-in-trumps-attack-on-iran/

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0:00.0	The Telegraph. I'm Francis Durnley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we discuss the
0:15.3	ramifications of the historic American strike on Iran's nuclear sites and how we should read
0:20.4	Tehran's foreign minister's
0:21.6	scramble to Moscow.
0:23.8	Plus, we feature a special dispatch from Gotland, Sweden to meet the Armed Forces' newest
0:28.9	outfit protecting Europe's strategic Baltic outpost from Russia.
0:34.3	Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.
0:44.0	The Russian does not want peace.
0:45.8	First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine,
0:49.3	also our freedom and our European Werte.
0:54.5	If I'm president,
0:55.3	I will have that war
0:56.3	settled in one day,
0:57.5	24 hours.
0:58.4	We are with you,
0:59.5	not just today or tomorrow,
1:01.9	but for 100 years.
1:03.5	We can't
1:04.3	not, as European,
1:05.7	let's gain the Russia
1:06.9	in Ukraine.
1:08.1	Nobody's going to break us.
	...

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