Ukraine liberates 'almost' entire region & Trump to ease Russian sanctions after Putin call
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,475.
Today, as President Donald Trump speaks with Vladimir Putin and reportedly offers to ease sanctions on Russian oil amid surging global energy prices linked to his war in Iran, we examine the latest developments on the battlefield as Ukraine claims to have liberated “almost all” of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Then we bring you the latest from Europe, followed by a dispatch from northern Ukraine, where communities continue to endure repeated Russian strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
Adelie Pojzman-Pontay (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @Adeliepjz on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
An Air-Campaign Primer (Eliot Cohen in The Atlantic):
X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts (The Guardian):
Ukraine Helps U.S. Bases in the Mideast With Stopping Drones (New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/world/middleeast/ukraine-shahed-drone-middle-east.html
Ministry of Defence changes approach to drone procurement: demand will be generated automatically based on frontline data (MOD):
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, as President Trump |
| 0:14.9 | speaks with Vladimir Putin and reportedly offers to ease sanctions on Russian oil amid |
| 0:19.7 | surging global energy prices linked to the war in Iran. |
| 0:23.4 | We examine the latest developments on the battlefield as Ukraine claims to have liberated almost all of the Denebri-Petrovs region. |
| 0:31.0 | Then we bring you the latest from Europe, followed by a dispatch from northern Ukraine, |
| 0:35.2 | where communities continue to endure repeated Russian |
| 0:38.5 | strikes on their energy infrastructure. |
| 0:41.4 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:50.6 | The Russia does not want to face. |
| 0:52.2 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:56.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 1:00.0 | Writers. |
| 1:01.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:05.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:10.0 | We can not, as European, |
| 1:12.2 | let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:14.3 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:16.3 | We're strong. |
| 1:17.6 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:19.9 | It's Tuesday, the 10th of March, four years and 14 days, |
| 1:24.7 | since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:26.7 | And today, I'm joined by my co-hosts and associate editor of defence here at the Telegraph, Dominic Nichols, |
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