Russia loses 7000 troops in 5 days & Putin tells Trump: I’ll stop giving Iran intel if you cut off Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,488.
Today, after another weekend of so-called peace talks over Russia’s war in Ukraine, we search for signs of a diplomatic breakthrough (spoiler: there isn’t one). We report on a fresh wave of long-range Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia that forced at least 15 Russian airports to suspend flight operations and also examine the so-called “Gamechanger” plot – allegations of a plan to stage a fake assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to boost his chances in next month’s election. Later, we catch-up with Michael Bohnert at the RAND Corporation, and ask whether Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missiles and interceptor drones are now setting the pace for aerial warfare and military innovation.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to Michael Bohnert of RAND.
NOW IN FULL VIDEO WITH MAPS & BATTLEFIELD FOOTAGE:
Every episode is now available on our YouTube channel shortly after the release of the audio version. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineTheLatest
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Putin tells Trump: I’ll stop giving Iran intel if you cut off Ukraine (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/03/20/putin-trump-iran-intel-ukraine/
What the Ukraine war tells us about the Iran conflict (Valerii Zaluzhnyi in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/21/ukraine-war-tells-us-about-iran-conflict/
President Stubb of Finland: ‘We must face reality – the West has split’ (David Blair’s Interview in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/22/president-stubb-finland-interview/
How Telegram became a death sentence for Russian soldiers (The Telegraph):
Ukrainians in disbelief over West’s failure to stop Iran’s deadly drones (Adrian Blomfield in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/20/trump-iran-ukraine-russia-drone-warfare/
What Is Ukraine’s Interceptor, One of the World’s Most In-Demand Drones? (UNITED24):
To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt of Orban (Washington Post):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Domnickles and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:12.6 | Today, after another weekend of so-called peace talks, we look for some, any signs of a |
| 0:17.7 | breakthrough, although plot spoiler, we didn't find any. |
| 0:20.7 | We report on another weekend |
| 0:22.2 | of long-range strikes deep inside Russia that at one point saw 15 Russian airports cancel |
| 0:27.4 | all flight operations, and we look at the so-called game-changer plot, an idea to stage |
| 0:32.5 | a fake assassination of Victor Orban in order to help him win next month's election. And later we have our semi-regular catch-up with Rand, |
| 0:40.3 | where we ask whether Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles and interceptor drones |
| 0:44.3 | are currently setting the pace for military development in the sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:57.0 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 1:00.0 | First, we're in our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:04.0 | also our freedom and our European Writers. |
| 1:09.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:13.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:18.1 | We can't, as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:22.6 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:28.5 | It's Monday the 23rd of March, four years and 27 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:34.3 | Today I'm joined by the Telegraph's executive editor for audio, Francis Dernley, and Rand analyst |
| 1:39.0 | Michael Bonnet. I started with the updates. So, US and Ukrainian officials met in Miami for two days of peace talks |
| 1:46.7 | over the weekend. It was pretty standard, bland readout on Saturday. Nothing heard so far from |
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