Russian ship fires lasers at British war plane & Trump 'in secret consultation' with Kremlin over Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,364.
Today, as Ukraine confirms the latest use of US ATACMS missiles inside Russia and Britain tracks a Russian spy ship in UK waters, we examine growing pressure on President Zelensky to dismiss a senior official over the widening nuclear-energy corruption scandal – with Andriy Yermak increasingly in the spotlight. We also report on allegations that a former British civil servant committed war crimes in Ukraine, and discuss why Spain is attempting to return to Donald Trump’s good graces with a new €1 billion purchase of U.S. weapons for Ukraine. Later, we speak with the Foreign Minister of Czechia, who says he expects imminent movement on efforts to unlock frozen Russian state assets.
Contributors
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
With thanks to Jan Lipavský, Foreign Minister of Czechia.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
British ex-civil servant accused of Ukraine war crimes (The Telegraph):
Russian spy ship fires lasers to blind RAF pilots (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/19/russian-spy-blinds-military-pilots-spy-ship-lasers/
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war (Axios):
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/ukraine-peace-plan-trump-russia-witkoff
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Domnickles and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, as Ukraine confirms the latest use of American attackam's weapons inside Russia |
| 0:17.9 | and Britain tracks a Russian spy ship in UK waters, we report how pressure |
| 0:22.9 | is mounting for President Zelensky to sack a senior person in the wake of the nuclear |
| 0:27.2 | energy corruption scandal with Andre Yermak's neck on the block. We report how a former British |
| 0:33.0 | civil servant has been accused of carrying out war crimes in Ukraine, and Spain tries to get back |
| 0:38.3 | in Donald Trump's good books with a one billion euro purchase of US weapons for Ukraine. |
| 0:43.9 | And later, we have an interview with the foreign minister of Czechia, who says he expects |
| 0:48.2 | imminent movement on those frozen Russian assets. |
| 0:52.8 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:02.0 | The Russian does not want fees. |
| 1:04.0 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:08.0 | also our freedom and our European Writers. If I'm President, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. We can not as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. |
| 1:29.8 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:32.4 | It's Wednesday, the 19th of November, three years and 270 days since the full-scale invasion |
| 1:38.1 | began. And today, I'm joined by the Telegraphs Brussels correspondent, Joe Barnes. |
| 1:43.3 | I started with the latest military updates. |
| 1:47.0 | Breaking just in the last hour, Ukraine's Justice Minister Hermin Halyshenko and Energy Minister |
| 1:52.0 | Svetlana Hinchuk, the pair allegedly implicated in the Energoatom corruption scheme, |
| 1:57.5 | have been sacked. Now, they had submitted their resignations to President Zelensky, |
| 2:02.5 | and about an hour ago, it was reported that Ukraine's parliament had approved those resignations, |
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