US air force ‘could police Ukraine's skies’ as 10 European nations 'ready' to send peacekeeping forces & the numbers that show Russia is years from victory
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,274.
Today, as President Donald Trump says the US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal, we assess reports that as many as 10 European countries are considering putting boots on the ground if Russia agrees to end its war. Then we take a step back and try to make sense of the historic past few days. What, if anything, has changed? Then we hear a dispatch Adelie recorded in Ukraine at the funeral of journalist Victoria Roshchyna.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Content Referenced:
US air force could police Ukraine’s skies to ensure peace (The Telegraph):
Ten European countries ‘ready’ to send forces to Ukraine (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/20/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-trump-peace/
‘Nearly two million more casualties’: The numbers that show Russia is years from victory (Roland Oliphant in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/19/russia-is-years-from-victory-trump-putin/
Dance Of The Flamingos: Ukraine’s FP-5 Heavy Cruise Missile (Covert Shores):
http://www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-FP-15-Flamingo-Cruise-Missile.html
Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 37 Former and Current Officials (New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-security-clearances.html
‘The Steel Porcupine’ – Russia's campaign of extermination by Benjamin I. Goldhagen:
https://www.thesteelporcupine.com/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.5 | Today, as President Donald Trump says the US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal, |
| 0:20.1 | we assess reports that as many as |
| 0:22.1 | 10 European countries are considering putting boots on the ground if Russia agrees to end its war. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we take a step back and try to make sense of the historic past few days. |
| 0:34.3 | What, if anything, has changed? |
| 0:38.7 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:48.4 | The Russian does not want peace. |
| 0:50.2 | With our help for the Ukraine, also our freedom and our European |
| 0:55.4 | Writers. |
| 0:56.1 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:00.1 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:05.1 | We can't as European, let's get the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:09.5 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:11.5 | We're strong. |
| 1:12.8 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 1:14.5 | It's Wednesday, the 20th of August, three years and 179 days since the full-scale invasion |
| 1:20.2 | began. |
| 1:21.1 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor of defense, Dominic Nichols. |
| 1:25.5 | Later, you'll hear a dispatch adly recorded in Ukraine at the funeral of journalist |
| 1:30.4 | Victoria Rochjjina. |
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