Ukrainian raid destroys Mi-8 helicopters in Crimea & Poland scrambles jets as Russia bombs Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,307.
Today, as the UN Security Council debates Russia’s latest airspace violations, we ask why Estonia held fire – unlike Turkey in 2015 – before hearing frontline perspectives from Ukrainian soldiers with The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell, and exploring Russia’s answer to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Farrell (Report, The Kyiv Independent). @francisjfarrell on X.
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Content referenced:
Francis Farrell’s reporting at The Kyiv Independent:
https://kyivindependent.com/author/francis-farrell/
Intervision: Putin’s rival to Eurovision (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/20/intervision-putins-version-of-eurovision/
Putin prepares to tax Russia’s rich as war chest runs dry (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/19/putin-prepares-tax-russias-rich-war-chest-runs-dry/
EU brings forward Russian gas ban after pressure from Trump (Joe Barnes in The Telegraph):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, as the UN Security Council debates Russia's latest airspace violations, |
| 0:18.5 | we ask why Estonia held fire, unlike Turkey, in 2015, |
| 0:23.6 | before hearing frontline perspectives from Ukrainian soldiers and exploring Russia's answer to the Eurovision song contest. |
| 0:32.0 | Gravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:40.3 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:43.3 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:47.3 | also our freedom and our European Writers. |
| 0:51.3 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:56.2 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:01.2 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:05.8 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:07.8 | We're strong. |
| 1:09.0 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:11.5 | It's Monday, the 22nd of September, three years and two hundred and twelve days since the |
| 1:17.2 | full-scale invasion began. And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's associate editor for defense, |
| 1:21.9 | Dominic Nichols, and for a broader strategic assessment of the front lines, the Kiev |
| 1:25.8 | independence, Francis Farrell. |
| 1:31.1 | The first, over to Dom, for the latest on the military situation. |
| 1:37.5 | The main defence story over the weekend was the response to Friday's incursion into Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland by those three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets. |
| 1:43.1 | So these three flew unimpeded for about 12 minutes, we're told, before departing. |
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