Russia 'risks meltdown' by targeting nuclear power plants & Trump leaks world leaders' texts
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,426.
Today, as Moscow reportedly tests thermobaric munitions on ground-based drones, and strikes on substations connected to Ukrainian nuclear power plants continue, we turn to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where world leaders have gathered for what was meant to be a week of diplomatic breakthroughs for Kyiv. Instead, the agenda has been seized by President Trump and his threats over Greenland; we hear the latest from the island, before speaking to the author of a new report on Russian cyber warfare.
Contributors
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.
With thanks to Michael McManus (Henry Jackson Society). @HJS_Org on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Trump leaks texts, threatens Macron and trashes Starmer (The Telegraph):
Denmark sends more troops to Greenland (The Telegraph):
The Henry Jackson Society’s cyber report will be published here later today:
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/centre-for-russia-and-eurasia-studies/
Russians Made a Simplified Solntsepyok Using a Drone (Militarnyi):
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russians-made-a-simplified-solntsepyok-using-a-drone/
The History Bureau: Putin and the Apartment Bombs (BBC):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q5dk
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw (Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, as Russia reportedly |
| 0:15.7 | tests thermobaric munitions on ground-based drones, we turn to the World Economic Forum in Davos, |
| 0:22.1 | where world leaders have gathered for what was meant to be a week of diplomatic breakthroughs |
| 0:26.2 | for Kiev. Instead, the agenda has been hijacked by President Trump and his threats over Greenland. |
| 0:32.7 | We hear the latest from the ground there before speaking to the author of a new report on Russian cyber warfare. |
| 0:40.1 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:49.8 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:51.6 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine |
| 0:55.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 0:59.0 | WERALD. |
| 1:00.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:04.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:09.0 | We can not't as European |
| 1:11.2 | let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:13.8 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:15.8 | We're strong. |
| 1:17.1 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:19.8 | It's Tuesday, the 20th of January, |
| 1:22.6 | three years and 332 days |
| 1:24.9 | since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:27.1 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor of |
| 1:29.2 | defence, Dominic Nichols, our Berlin correspondent, James Rothwell, dialing in from Greenland, |
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