Victory Day truce 'a farce', say allies & Ukraine proposes 30km demilitarized zone for peace
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,170.
Today, as the end of the Second World War in Europe is marked in most European countries, we report how Vladimir Putin’s three-day ‘goodwill ceasefire’ designed to protect his own commemoration tomorrow appears to have been broken already, we examine three very strong and uncharacteristically critical comments by the United States administration about Russia, and we ask whether Friedrich Merz has hit the ground running, or fallen at the first hurdle.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Chemical Weapons Expert and Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.
Content Referenced:
'Putin’s top 3 lies: from Ukraine to the Second World War' (Video by Francis):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdvqJy-zVk
Putin welcomes Xi Jinping at Kremlin (The Telegraph Live Blog):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/08/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-xi-jinping-moscow/
JD Vance: Russia is asking for too much from Ukraine (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/05/07/jd-vance-russia-asking-too-much-from-ukraine/
Former British Army soldier “Swampy” killed in Ukraine (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/07/former-british-soldier-killed-in-ukraine/
Putin’s Victory Day display is a charade, not a parade (Hamish’s article):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/08/putins-victory-day-display-is-a-charade-not-a-parade/
Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says (Kyiv Independent):
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Domnichols, and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:12.4 | Today, as the end of the Second World War in Europe is marked in most European countries, |
| 0:17.4 | we report how Putin's three-day goodwill ceasefire, designed to protect his own |
| 0:22.2 | commemoration tomorrow, appears to have been broken already. We examine three very strong and |
| 0:28.5 | uncharacteristically critical comments by the U.S. administration about Russia, and we ask whether |
| 0:34.1 | Friedrich Mertz has hit the ground running or fallen at the first hurdle. |
| 0:41.3 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:50.3 | The first duty of my government is security and defence, to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 1:01.4 | Keith stands strong. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:08.5 | It's Thursday the 8th of May, three years and 74 days since the full-scale invasion |
| 1:14.3 | began. And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's executive editor for audio, Francis Dernley, |
| 1:19.9 | Berlin correspondent James Rothwell, and former tank unit commander Hamish to Breton Gordon. |
| 1:25.7 | I started with the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:29.2 | Ukraine has accused Russia of breaching itself-declared three-day ceasefire, which came to |
| 1:34.7 | effect midnight Moscow time last night, 10 o'clock local here in London. Ukraine's Air Force reported |
| 1:41.1 | three breaches of the ceasefire in the northern Sumi region overnight. |
| 1:46.1 | And air raid alerts have been going off this morning in seven eastern Ukrainian regions, warning of the danger of Russian ballistic missiles. |
| 1:54.1 | Now, in a statement, Ukraine's Air Force said during the night, the enemy intensified tactical aviation strikes using guided aerial bombs in the Sumi region. |
| 2:04.6 | They said, this is the Air Force saying the skies were quiet from around 8am local time, Kiev, Kiev time, Ukraine time this morning. |
| 2:13.5 | There's been nothing official since then, although a number of Ukrainian mill bloggers |
| 2:17.9 | citing Ukrainian military units have said that Russian infantry assaults have continued |
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