'Retribution' as bomb kills officers in occupied Ukraine & Trump admits Putin ‘doesn't want peace’
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,184.
Today, as Moscow’s Airports are once again shut down by Ukrainian drones, we hear about Chechnan officers apparently assassinated in the occupied territories, as it’s revealed Trump told his European counterparts Putin does not want to end the war. Plus, we hear about the educational challenges faced by refugees, and the evolving nature of civil society in a country at war with the founder of one of Ukraine’s largest foundations.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor for Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Poppy Wood (Education Editor). @poppyeh on X.
With thanks to Serhiy Prytula, founder of the Serhiy Prytula Foundation. @serhiyprytula on X.
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Content Referenced:
Ukrainian children ‘forced’ to study Russian GCSE (Poppy and Francis’s story in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/19/ukrainian-children-forced-study-russian-gcse-in-uk/
Special Episode interviewing Ukrainian children:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-childhood-at-war/id1612424182?i=1000704331753
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SjJ3cUVYiweoChHsvjL6b?si=wH_9X4gQRLyyvGjLfom_Ug
Learn more about the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation:
https://prytulafoundation.org/en
Trump Tells European Leaders in Private That Putin Isn’t Ready to End War (Wall Street
Journal):
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/trump-putin-call-russia-ukraine-83a6ef59
'We don't want this anymore' — Lavrov confirms Russia has no interest in ceasefire in Ukraine (Kyiv Independent):
Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead while dropping daughter at Madrid school (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/21/ukrainian-father-shot-five-time-madrid/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Francis Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, as Moscow's airports are once again shut down by Ukrainian drones, |
| 0:18.0 | we hear about Russian officers apparently assassinated in the occupied territories, |
| 0:22.6 | as it's revealed Trump told his European counterparts Putin does not want to end the war. |
| 0:28.6 | Plus, we hear about the educational challenges faced by refugees and the evolving nature of civil society in a country at war. |
| 0:36.6 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:46.3 | The Russia does not want fees. |
| 0:48.3 | With our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 0:53.3 | Werte. |
| 0:56.1 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:58.3 | We are with you, not just |
| 1:00.0 | today or tomorrow, but |
| 1:02.0 | for a hundred years. |
| 1:03.3 | We can't as European |
| 1:05.2 | let's gain the Russia in |
| 1:07.1 | Ukraine. Nobody's going to |
| 1:08.6 | break us. We're strong. |
| 1:12.0 | We're Ukrainians. It're strong. Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:19.9 | It's Thursday, the 22nd of May, three years and 88 days since the fourth-scale invasion began. |
| 1:24.1 | And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's Associate Editor of Defense, Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:29.2 | our education editor, Poppy Wood, and also in the studio, Serhi Praitula, |
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