Ukraine aims to kill 50,000 Russians per month & Trump row over Greenland derails postwar deal
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,427.
Today, as Donald Trump heads to Davos with what he calls “good news” about Greenland, we examine prime minister of Canada Mark Carney’s extraordinary speech at Davos where he warned that we cannot “live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination”. We also report on Moscow’s representative to the IAEA dismissing global concern over Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants as overblown. And later, we speak to our Kremlin watcher about what may come from Steve Witkoff’s meeting tomorrow in Moscow with Vladimir Putin.
Contributors
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Lily Shanagher (Foreign Reporter). @LilyShanagher on X.
James Kilner (Foreign Analyst). @jkjourno on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Telegraph Live Blog of Davos:
Trump’s $1bn-a-ticket plan to replace the UN (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/21/trump-1bn-a-ticket-replace-un/
The limits of Trump’s Bazball diplomacy (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/20/donald-trump-bazball-diplomacy-analysis/
Save Ukraine Website:
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Domnickles and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:13.5 | Today, as Donald Trump heads to Davos with Good News about Greenland, |
| 0:17.6 | we look at Mark Carney's extraordinary and hopeful speech, where he said we cannot |
| 0:22.4 | live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of |
| 0:27.5 | your subordination. We report how Moscow's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency |
| 0:32.8 | says the world is being overly dramatic by worrying about Russia's attacks on Ukraine's nuclear |
| 0:38.3 | power plants, and later we talk to our Russia watcher and ask what's likely to come from |
| 0:43.6 | Steve Wiccoff's meeting tomorrow in Moscow with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:47.3 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:57.0 | The Russia does not want peace. |
| 0:59.0 | First, we're in our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:03.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 1:07.0 | Writers. |
| 1:08.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:12.1 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. |
| 1:17.1 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:21.5 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:26.9 | It's Wednesday the 21st of January, three years and 333 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:34.0 | And today I'm joined by foreign reporter Lily Shanaha and Russia expert James Kilner. |
| 1:38.9 | I started with that extraordinary speech in Davos by Canada's Prime Minister. |
| 1:52.5 | Now, since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, and in particular since Donald Trump returned to the White House, we have routinely asked on this podcast, where are the grown-ups? |
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