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🗓️ 19 August 2025
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Day 1,273.
Today, as we get more clarity on what the Europeans proposed to Donald Trump in the historic White House summit yesterday, we hear the latest from the battlefront as Russian progress appears to have been stymied, and then do a deep dive into Moscow’s reaction to this week’s diplomatic developments. What exactly are they signalling?
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Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @jkjourno on X.
Content Referenced:
Ukraine ‘offers Trump $100bn arms deal’ for security guarantees (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/19/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-trump-peace/
Frank Gardner’s security guarantees reflections (BBC):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz93ve1p952t
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, as we get more clarity on what the Europeans proposed to Donald Trump in that historic White House summit yesterday, we hear the latest from the battlefront as Russian progress appears to have been stymied |
| 0:25.5 | and then do a deep dive into Moscow's reaction to this week's diplomatic developments. |
| 0:31.0 | What exactly are they signalling? |
| 0:33.9 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:43.3 | The Russia does not want peace. |
| 0:45.3 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:49.3 | also our freedom and our European Writers. If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:58.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:03.0 | We can't, as European, |
| 1:05.0 | let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:08.0 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:10.0 | We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:13.4 | It's Tuesday, the 19th of August, three years and 178 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:21.2 | And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor of Defense, Dominic Nichols, and the Telegraph's former Russia correspondent, James Kilner. |
| 1:28.4 | But first, the major diplomatic developments after those significant meetings yesterday. |
| 1:33.9 | It's been a big 24 hours, and so once again, I'm just going to begin with the major |
| 1:37.6 | diplomatic developments after the summit yesterday. I should just say at the top of the episode |
| 1:42.0 | that if you missed our bonus pod that we |
| 1:44.4 | put out last night, I highly recommend that you check that out because we go into much, |
| 1:48.0 | much more detail into the subjects of the summit that took place between European leaders and, |
| 1:52.8 | of course, that encounter, much improved encounter between Zelensky and Trump. But let me just |
| 1:58.8 | dive in to bring you up to date, first of all, on what's happened |
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