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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Day 1,226.
Today, as the fallout from Donald Trump freezing US weapons to Ukraine continues, in a special dispatch, we join the Ukrainian navy out on the Black Sea during an air attack on Odesa. Then we speak to the creator of Wargame – the new podcast simulating an attack by Russia on British soil, and hear what lessons it offers countries across the Western world.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to our guest Deborah Haynes (Security and Defence Editor at Sky News). @haynesdeborah on X.
Content Referenced:
Our Black Sea Video Dispatch:
YouTube Version -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YjuuQz414
Telegraph Version - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/03/russia-attacks-cargo-ships-ports-black-sea-ukraine-war/
The Wargame - Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast simulates a Russian attack on UK:
North Korea is sending Putin 30,000 more troops, Kyiv says (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/03/north-korea-russia-troops-ukraine/
Trump Is Playing a Cynical Game With Ukraine (Jake Sullivan in The New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opinion/trump-ukraine-weapons.html
Ukraine Can Still Win (Michael Carpenter in Foreign Affairs):
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-can-still-win
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, as the fallout from Donald Trump freezing US weapons to Ukraine continues, |
| 0:18.0 | in a special dispatch, we join the Ukrainian Navy out on the |
| 0:22.3 | Black Sea during an air attack on Odessa. Then we speak to the creator of Wargame, the new podcast |
| 0:28.9 | simulating an attack by Russia on British soil, and hear what lessons it offers countries |
| 0:34.2 | across the Western world. Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships |
| 0:42.3 | to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:45.3 | Russia does not want peace. |
| 0:47.3 | First, we are protecting, with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:51.3 | also our freedom and our European values. If I or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:05.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:10.0 | Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians. It's Thursday, the 3rd of July, three years and 130 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:23.6 | And today, I'm joined by the associate editor of Defence here at the Telegraph, Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:28.5 | and Security and Defence Editor at Sky News, Deborah Haynes. |
| 1:32.6 | But first, over to Dom for the latest military updates. |
| 1:36.9 | Let's follow on from yesterday's news about the US cancellation of future weapons supplies to Ukraine. |
| 1:42.7 | The Kremlin has wasted no time at all |
| 1:45.2 | capitalizing on the report. We spoke about it yesterday citing that Politico report. I did |
| 1:50.2 | actually read somewhere that that decision might be challenged as possibly unconstitutional, |
| 1:55.3 | saying that the president cannot arbitrarily decide to overturn a decision voted on by |
| 2:00.8 | Congress. I ask our U.S. listeners, |
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