Ukrainian strikes push Russia to brink of oil catastrophe
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,280.
Today, as continued Ukrainian attacks are said to have depleted Russian oil production by the equivalent of a million barrels a day, Donald Trump says Putin is unlikely to meet President Zelensky because he “doesn’t like him”. We also hear how the latest Coalition of the Willing meeting occurred as China said - with caveats - that it might be willing to commit troops to any post-ceasefire force, and we hear how Russian motor racing chiefs have hit the barriers in a spat with Formula 1.
Contributors:
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
James Kilner (Foreign Correspondent). @jkjourno on X.
Content Referenced:
Ukraine targets Russian logistics in occupied Crimea (Kyiv Independent):
US blocks Ukraine firing long-range missiles into Russia (The Telegraph):
UK to take over leadership of Ukraine defence group from US (The Telegraph):
British Army trains Ukrainian officers how to detect and manage battle stress in their troops (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/28/british-army-ukraine-mental-health-stress-soldiers/
Anna Netrebko is the greatest opera singer in the world – with a Putin problem (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opera/what-to-see/anna-netrebko-greatest-opera-singer-putin-problem/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Adelae Posman-Ponthe, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:13.8 | Today, as continued Ukrainian attacks are said to have depleted Russian oil production |
| 0:18.4 | by the equivalent of a million barrels a day, Donald |
| 0:21.3 | Trump says Putin is unlikely to meet President Zelensky because he doesn't like him. |
| 0:26.9 | We also hear how the latest coalition of the willing meeting occurred, as China said, with |
| 0:31.7 | caveats, that it might be willing to commit troops to any post-seasfire force. |
| 0:37.0 | And we hear how Russian motor racing chiefs have hit the barriers in a spat with Formula One. |
| 0:43.5 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:52.8 | The Russians is not one feast. |
| 0:55.0 | First, we're with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 0:58.0 | also our freedom and our European |
| 1:02.0 | Writers. |
| 1:03.0 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:07.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:12.1 | We can't, as European, let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:16.5 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:22.7 | It's Tuesday, the 26th of August, three years and 185 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:30.3 | And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Defence, Dom Nichols, and our former |
| 1:35.3 | Russian correspondent, James Kilner. First, the latest from Dom from the front lines. |
| 1:42.3 | Let's go into Ukraine. There have been small advances since Friday. Obviously, we were not |
| 1:48.2 | live yesterday. It was a public holiday here in the United Kingdom, we're in England and Wales. |
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