Ukraine strikes Chechen special forces ahead of Putin-Witkoff talks & Russian troops ‘sent to slaughter’ without helmets or armour
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,377.
Today, on a national day of mourning in Ukraine after a single ballistic missile strike killed four people and injured forty more, we report on the arrival of the US delegation in Moscow as the latest round of peace talks gets under way. Then we hear from our Washington Correspondent on the mood in the United States toward Ukraine – and the current strength of President Trump – and take a deep dive into how Russian soldiers are being sent into combat without helmets or body armour.
Contributors
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Verity Bowman (Foreign Correspondent). @VerityBowman on X.
Connor Stringer (Washington Correspondent). @connor_stringer on X.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Russian troops sent to slaughter with no helmets or armour (Verity in The Telegraph):
Ukraine strikes Chechen special forces unit ahead of Putin-Witkoff talks (The Telegraph):
Zelensky warns US not to reward Putin (The Telegraph):
Ex-British soldier ‘helped Russia assassinate prominent Ukrainians’ (The Telegraph):
ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan (Financial Times):
https://www.ft.com/content/616c79ee-34de-425a-865e-e94ba10be788
Ukraine has brought back 1,859 Russia-abducted children, Zelenska says in Paris (Kyiv Independent):
Five South Africans in court over alleged recruitment for Russia’s war in Ukraine (The Guardian):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:13.9 | Today, on a national day of morning, in Ukraine after a single ballistic missile strike, |
| 0:18.8 | killed four people and injured 40 more yesterday. |
| 0:22.4 | We report on the arrival of the US delegation in Moscow as the latest round of peace talks get underway. |
| 0:29.4 | Then we hear from our Washington correspondent on the mood in the United States towards Ukraine |
| 0:33.7 | and the current strength of President Trump, |
| 0:36.7 | before taking a deep dive into how Russian |
| 0:38.9 | soldiers are being sent into combat without helmets or body armor. |
| 0:45.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:54.8 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:56.5 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:00.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 1:04.2 | Writers. |
| 1:05.2 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, |
| 1:08.3 | 24 hours. |
| 1:09.2 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:14.2 | We can't as a European, let's be gained the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.8 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:24.7 | It's Tuesday, the 2nd of December, three years and 283 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:32.0 | And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor of Defense, Dominic Nichols, |
| 1:35.6 | our foreign reporter, Verity Bowman, and our Washington correspondent, Connor Stringer. |
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