Ukrainian troops destroy ‘all Russian positions’ to liberate town & EU chief's plane 'forced to land blind after Moscow jams GPS’
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,287.
Today, as a Nato leader meets with Vladimir Putin while Ukraine is subjected to the latest wave of Russian drone strikes, we look at the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in China that is attempting to rewrite the global security order. Plus, we examine quite what happened to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane, after suspected Russian interference, and hear the latest in the cyber war.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Gareth Corfield (Transport Correspondent). @GazTheJourno on X.
Content Referenced:
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane forced to land blind after ‘Russia jams GPS’ (The Telegraph):
Costa breaks ranks on EU-US trade deal, fires warning shot at Trump (POLITICO):
https://www.politico.eu/article/antonio-costa-eu-us-trade-deal-warning-shots-donald-trump/
Germany and France plan early warning system JEWEL (Hartpunkt):
https://www.hartpunkt.de/raketenabwehr-berlin-und-paris-planen-fruehwarnsystem/
Andrew Fox Substack on PTSD:
https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/ptsd?r=z0uop&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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| 0:44.1 | Thank you. I'm I'm Domnichols and this is Ukraine the latest. Today as a NATO leader meets with Putin while Ukraine is subjected to the latest wave of |
| 0:49.4 | Russian drone strikes, we look at the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in China that is attempting |
| 0:55.7 | to rewrite the global security order. |
| 0:58.7 | Plus, we examined quite what happened to Ursula von der Leyen's plane yesterday after suspected |
| 1:04.4 | Russian interference. |
| 1:07.4 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:16.2 | Russia does not want peace. |
| 1:17.7 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 1:25.2 | Writers. |
| 1:26.5 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:30.5 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:35.4 | We can't, as European, let's be gained the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:39.8 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:41.8 | We're strong. |
| 1:43.1 | We're Ukraine is. |
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