Russia threatens NATO with nuclear strikes & Trump says he's 'saving Ukraine'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,161.
Today, as Trump pushes back against Vladimir Putin’s three-day ceasefire proposal, we discuss the recent reflections of the former commander of Ukraine’s armed forces and his bold predictions for the future of warfare. Plus, we hear frontline reaction from soldiers to the so-called pauses in the fighting. Are they real?
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Svitlana Morenets (Staff Writer at The Spectator). @SvMorenets on X.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Chemical Weapons Expert and Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.
Content Referenced:
The evolving nature of warfare has redefined the fundamental principles of global security: the Ukrainian experience and the emerging world order (Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s speech):
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2025/04/25/7509135/
Russia threatens Nato with nuclear strikes (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/29/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-war-latest-news529/
North Korea confirms it sent troops to fight for Russia (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/28/north-korea-confirms-sent-troops-fight-russia/
A fleet of aging army tanks donated to Ukraine is yet to leave Australia (ABC News):
Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life (Forbidden Stories):
https://forbiddenstories.org/russia-detainees-investigation-viktoriia-roshchyna/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, as Trump pushes back against Putin's three-day ceasefire proposal, we discussed |
| 0:13.0 | the recent reflections of the former commander of Ukraine's armed forces and his bold predictions |
| 0:19.0 | for the future of warfare. Plus, we hear frontline reaction from soldiers to the so-called pauses in the fighting. |
| 0:26.6 | Were they real? |
| 0:28.6 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:39.6 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:44.5 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:45.7 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:50.7 | We can't, as European, let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:55.2 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:57.2 | We're strong. |
| 0:58.4 | We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:01.1 | It's Tuesday, the 29th of April, three years and 65 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:08.9 | And today, I'm joined by Ukrainian journalist and staff |
| 1:11.7 | writer at The Spectator, Svitlana Morinette, and former tank commander and chemical weapons expert, |
| 1:17.6 | Hamish de Breton Gordon. But first, a summary from me of the most significant military and |
| 1:22.7 | political developments of the past 24 hours. |
| 1:29.3 | Today's military updates will be a little less granular because I want to give |
| 1:33.3 | proper attention to a fascinating intervention by Vaudeléry Zilluzni, |
| 1:37.3 | former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, of course, and now Ukraine's |
| 1:41.3 | ambassador to Britain. |
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