SPECIAL: ‘We are all in danger now’ - Putin's brutal invasion three and a half years on, with General Sir Richard Barrons and Orysia Lutsevych OBE

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this special live episode recorded at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, we take stock of the war as it grinds into its fourth calendar year.

Joined by General Sir Richard Barrons – former head of UK Joint Forces Command and co-author of Britain’s Strategic Defence Review – and Orysia Lutsevych OBE – head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House – hosts Dom Nicholls, Francis Dearnley, and Adélie Pojzman-Pontay debate the state of the conflict, Donald Trump’s renewed deadlines and ultimatums, and why Vladimir Putin shows no sign of negotiating peace in good faith.

Then we take questions from the audience.

As bombs continue to devastate Ukrainian cities and Europe’s “Coalition of the Willing” struggles for credibility, we ask: where next for the war and for European security? With the post-1945 security order collapsing, this timely discussion helps make sense of a shifting geopolitical era – and considers the challenges facing Western societies and reserve forces, such as the Honourable Artillery Company, in the years ahead.

You can also watch this episode on The Telegraph YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/Mw_lWhp-flU

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0:00.0	The Telegraph
0:07.0	This war and the agony of its prolonging is what failed deterrence looks like.
0:17.0	The people in this room are the target for war in the 21st century, what comes in their
0:22.0	phone, turning off of their power, turning off of their fuel and food.
0:27.1	We could very easily draw out what we need to do as a society to protect our country and
0:32.2	our allies for the next hundred years. We know this. We could put a price of it, we can do
0:35.9	it, but it's just not happening.
0:38.3	Fundamentally, we have to overcome only one predicament,
0:42.3	and that is our own mindset in the West about this war.
0:46.3	If we are able to clearly see the strategic opportunity
0:50.3	that Ukraine has so heroically open for all of us. I think we will be able to
0:56.5	help ourselves first of all and to make sure that Ukraine is a prosperous European nation.
1:05.4	Welcome to the Honourable Artillery Company. I'm Adeli Poghman-Ponte, co-host of Ukraine, the latest at the Telegraph,
1:12.8	and delighted to be here with you tonight.
1:15.5	Our podcast started on the very first day of the invasion, February 24th, 2022.
1:21.7	I'm sure many of you here are familiar with the show already.
1:25.8	It was created by the late, the great, the wonderful singer and terrible cricketer,
1:31.3	the hopelessly disorganized, but most importantly, the much, much missed David Knowles.
1:41.3	Let me introduce our guests.
1:47.0	General Sir Richard Barron's earlier this year, you co-wrote the UK's first indefinitely-led strategic defence review,
1:54.0	and before that you were commander of the Joint Forces Command and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff.
1:59.0	Dominic Nichols, Associate Defence Editor, 23 years in the Army, eight years at the Telegraph,
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