Ukrainian hackers 'wipe databases' in major cyberattack & Russian strikes hit Kyiv metro where hundreds sheltering
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,244.
Today, after another sleepless night for millions in Kyiv, we bring in experts to look at the shifting strategy of the Russian intelligence services, and hear a firsthand account of Putin’s seizure of power and the complicity of Russia’s elite. How did a fledgling democracy die?
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondant). @RolandOliphant on X.
With thanks to Irina Borogan (investigative journalist) @irinaborogan on X and Andrei Soldatov (investigative journalist). @AndreiSoldatov on X.
Content Referenced:
‘Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation’ by Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Dear-Friends-Moscow-Generation/dp/1541704452
Russia strikes Kyiv metro entrance as civilians shelter inside (The Telegraph):
Texas man joins Russian army to “earn respect,” gets lied to as he is sent to front line instead of welding job (Euromaidan Press):
Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia's Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says (Kyiv Independent):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, after another sleepless night for millions in Kiev, we bring in experts to look at the shifting strategy of the Russian |
| 0:21.8 | intelligence services, and here their first-hand account of Putin's seizure of power and the |
| 0:27.7 | complicity of Russia's elite. |
| 0:30.8 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:40.5 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:42.3 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:45.8 | also our freedom and our European |
| 0:49.9 | Werte. |
| 0:51.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:55.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:00.0 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:04.6 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:10.6 | It's Monday, the 21st of July, three years and 149 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:17.9 | And today, I'm joined by our chief foreign analyst, Roland Oliphant, |
| 1:21.3 | and investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. |
| 1:26.0 | But first, the major political and military updates from the |
| 1:29.3 | weekend and this morning. It was yet another terrible night for millions in Kiev last night, |
| 1:35.3 | as Russian strikes killed at least one and heavily damaged parts of the city, including a school |
| 1:40.8 | and an entrance to a metro station where residents were sheltering inside. |
| 1:45.3 | Four in all of Keeves districts were reportedly attacked with reports of burning residential |
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