Ukraine launches massive drone blitz on Moscow & cripples shadow fleet tanker in Black Sea
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,386.
Today, as Ukraine fires hundreds of drones into Russia – forcing the closure of all major Moscow airports – we report on how the maritime war is intensifying, with Kyiv striking shadow fleet tankers in the Black Sea and oil rigs in the Caspian Sea. Meanwhile, diplomatic tensions are rising, with President Donald Trump saying he exchanged “pretty strong words” with his European counterparts, just as reports emerge of a White House plan to bring Russia’s economy in from the cold. Then we return to controversial developments in the chess world with The Telegraph’s chess correspondent Malcolm Pein.
Contributors
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to Malcolm Pein (Chess Correspondent). @TelegraphChess on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Dom and Francis’s Chess Game with Malcolm in Odesa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCptvJ2tuIA
With clips in our Ukraine Culture War Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28HqbQLYGMM&pp=ygUPb2Rlc2EgdGVsZWdyYXBo
Starmer, Macron and Merz warn Trump over ‘Euro-Atlantic’ alliance (The Telegraph):
Ukrainian drone boats blow up Russian oil tankers (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/29/ukrainian-drone-boats-blow-up-russian-oil-tankers/
U.S. Blueprint to Rewire Economies of Russia, Ukraine Sets Off Clash With Europe (Wall Street Journal):
US House passes bill to bolster Europe’s defence, in apparent rebuke to Trump’s foreign policy strategy (The Guardian):
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy (The Telegraph):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Domnichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:12.9 | Today, as Ukraine fires hundreds of drones into Russia, closing all of Moscow's major airports, |
| 0:18.5 | we report how the maritime war is hotting up, with Kiev targeting |
| 0:21.9 | shadow fleet tankers in the Black Sea and oil rigs in the Caspian Sea. Meanwhile, there's been more |
| 0:27.3 | testy diplomacy with Donald Trump saying he'd exchanged pretty strong words with his European |
| 0:31.9 | counterparts, just as reports emerge of the White House plan to bring Russia's economy in from the |
| 0:37.3 | cold. |
| 0:38.3 | And later, we hear how the governing body of world chess is trying to get Russian teams back |
| 0:43.4 | into world competition. |
| 0:45.9 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:55.0 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:57.0 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:01.0 | also our freedom and our European Writers. |
| 1:06.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:10.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:15.2 | We can't as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:19.7 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:21.7 | We're strong. |
| 1:22.9 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:25.5 | It's Thursday, the 11th of December, three years and 292 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:31.9 | And today I'm joined by the Telegraph's executive editor for audio, Francis Dernley, and our chess |
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