Trump 'humiliates' Pentagon over Ukraine weapons u-turn & Putin’s minister 'found dead' after firing
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,231.
Today, we report on the sudden death of Russia’s former transport minister within hours of his sacking by Vladimir Putin. Then we examine Donald Trump’s pledge to resume weapons deliveries to Ukraine and look ahead to President Macron’s visit to the UK. Finally, we hear an updated figure of the number of children kidnapped by Russia, and discuss their fate if the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab closes this autumn amid its funding being pulled.
Contributors:
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Nathaniel Raymond (Lecturer & Executive Director Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health) @nattyray11 on X.
Content Referenced:
‘Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children ’:
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/give-now/
Fired Russian minister ‘kills himself’ (The Telegraph):
Trump U-turns on sending weapons to Ukraine (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/08/donald-trump-us-sends-weapons-ukraine/
Russian airlines face $254 million losses from just 2 days of Ukrainian drone strikes, Kremlin media reports (Kyiv Independent):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | What might happen if Russia attacked the UK? |
| 0:13.2 | This is clearly an enormous show of force. |
| 0:15.1 | It is definitely out of the ordinary. |
| 0:17.3 | We ran a war game with former ministers back in the hot seat. |
| 0:21.3 | Van Wallace. |
| 0:22.0 | Amber Rudd. |
| 0:22.7 | Jack Straw. |
| 0:23.5 | It's the kind of war game that's genuinely tested inside government. |
| 0:27.6 | The Russians are signalling that there may be an attack. |
| 0:30.5 | Russia knows our weaknesses, but do you? |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Deborah Haynes from Sky News and Tortus. |
| 0:35.8 | This is the war game. |
| 0:37.1 | Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Adelae Poshman-Pon-Té and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we keep reporting on the |
| 0:50.8 | mysterious blast on a Russian tanker and the death of Russia's former transport |
| 0:55.0 | minister. Meanwhile, Trump pledges to restart weapon deliveries to Ukraine and we look forward to what |
| 1:01.4 | may come out of President Macron's visit to the UK this week. Finally, we talk about what will |
| 1:07.3 | happen to the Ukrainian children abducted by Russia if the main investigative |
| 1:11.7 | effort, the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, shuts its door in the autumn due to lack of funding, |
| 1:17.7 | and how no one has stepped up to fill the gap. |
| 1:20.6 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
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