Revealed: The untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine & fully Chinese-made drone found for first time
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,248.
Today, we reveal new Patriot air-defence systems have already arrived in Ukraine, and provide the full, extraordinary story of the events leading up to President Trump’s u-turn which made that possible. Then we speak to a former US fighter pilot about the significance of such weapons deliveries in the air war, and about the mood in the United States, before a short dispatch from Wembley on the night Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk became undisputed heavyweight champion.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
Terry Virts (former NASA astronaut and Colonel in the US Air Force). @AstroTerry on X.
Maria Romanenko (Ukrainian Journalist). @rommari on X.
Content Referenced:
‘The full, untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine’ (Joe Barnes in The Telegraph):
Ukrainian soldiers cut off from Musk’s Starlink after blackout (The Telegraph):
Zelensky defied US order to scrap controversial corruption law (The Telegraph):
Fully Chinese-made drone found in Ukraine for first time (The Telegraph):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:13.7 | Today, we reveal new Patriot air defence systems have already arrived in Ukraine |
| 0:19.4 | and provide the full, extraordinary story of the events |
| 0:22.9 | leading up to President Trump's U-turn, which made that possible. |
| 0:27.2 | Then we speak to a former US fighter pilot about the significance of such weapons deliveries |
| 0:31.7 | in the air war and hear about the mood in the United States. |
| 0:36.0 | Finally, we share a short dispatch from Wembley Stadium |
| 0:39.3 | when Ukrainian boxer Alexander Usik became undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. |
| 0:45.3 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships |
| 0:51.3 | to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:55.0 | The Russia does not want fees. |
| 0:57.0 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:00.0 | also our freedom and our European Writers. |
| 1:05.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:09.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:14.5 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.9 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:20.9 | We're strong. |
| 1:22.1 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:25.3 | It's Friday. |
| 1:26.9 | The 25th of July, three years and 153 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
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