'You will die in the mud,' Nato chief tells Russians & Poland demands permanent US base
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,560.
Today, Sweden impounds a Russian cargo ship allegedly exporting Ukrainian grain from occupied territories. Then, as images of the results of yesterday’s Ukrainian strikes in and around St Petersburg start to appear, Marco Rubio denies any knowledge at all of a US delegation at the nearby economic forum, just as said participants show that they really don’t like the press asking them questions one little bit. Dom reports how Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte has directly addressed Russian men, telling them that if they go to fight in Ukraine “you’ll be left to suffer in the mud and die”, and Lily looks at a tight vote in the US House of Representatives over Ukraine funding that managed, just, to get over the line. And later, we go hull down with Hamish de Bretton Gordon looking at his new book about tanks and ask: given the lessons we’re learning from Ukraine, is his book out of date already, or released just in the nick of time?
Contributors:
Dom Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
Lily Shanagher (Telegraph journalist). @lilyshanagher on X.
With thanks to Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
Producer: Phil Atkins
Senior Producer: Lilian Fawcett
Video Producer: Sophie O’Sullivan
Social Producer: Katie Inglis
Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Executive Editor: Francis Dearnley
Created by David Knowles
NOW IN FULL VIDEO WITH MAPS & BATTLEFIELD FOOTAGE:
Every episode is now available on our YouTube channel shortly after the release of the audio version. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineTheLatest
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Rebuilding U.S. Missile Inventory: A Multiyear Project (Centre for Strategic and International Studies)
https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-missile-inventory-multiyear-project
'Heavy attack' hits Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant, IAEA says (Kyiv Independent)
Peter Magyar interview with Allgemeine Zeitung (in German)
Hamish’s book Tank Command: How the Tank Changed the Face of Battle is out now:
https://linktr.ee/TankCommand
Russia considers working age of 12 to solve wartime jobs crisis (Antonia Langford for The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/04/russia-considers-working-age-12-to-solve-wartime-job-crisis/
Putin is under pressure as the Ukraine war finally comes to Moscow and St Petersburg (Hamish de Bretton-Gordon for The Telegraph)
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Sweden impounds a Russian cargo ship allegedly exporting Ukrainian grain from occupied territories
- US delegation at ‘Putin’s Davos’ refuses to speak to journalists
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:12.7 | Today, Sweden impounds a Russian cargo ship allegedly exporting Ukrainian grain from occupied territories. |
| 0:19.5 | Then, as images of the results of yesterday's Ukrainian |
| 0:22.3 | strikes in and around St Petersburg start to appear, Marco Rubio denies any knowledge at all of a |
| 0:28.0 | US delegation at the nearby economic forum, just as, said participants, show that they |
| 0:33.5 | really don't like the press asking them questions one little bit. We report how NATO |
| 0:37.9 | Secretary General Mark Rutter has directly addressed Russian men, telling them that if they go to |
| 0:42.7 | fight in Ukraine, you'll be left to suffer in the mud and die. And we look at a tight vote in the |
| 0:49.0 | US House of Representatives over Ukraine funding that managed just to get over the line. And later, we go hull down with Hamish to Bretton Gordon looking at his new book about tanks and ask, |
| 0:59.0 | given the lessons we're learning from Ukraine, is his book out of date already, or released just in the nick of time? |
| 1:05.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:15.1 | Russia does not want fees. |
| 1:16.7 | First, we're fighting, with our help for the Ukraine, |
| 1:20.2 | also our freedom and our European values. |
| 1:25.4 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. We can't not as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. where Ukraine is. |
| 1:49.9 | It's Thursday the 4th of June, four years and 100 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:54.7 | And today I'm joined by foreign reporter Lily Shanaha and former tank unit commander and chemical weapons expert, Hamish to Britain Gordon. I'll start with the latest military updates. |
| 2:03.6 | Now in the last hour, it's been reported that Sweden has impounded a sanctioned cargo ship |
| 2:07.6 | thought to be part of Russia's shadow fleet. The vessel is suspected of illegally exporting Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied territories. |
| 2:15.6 | A Swedish court ordered the seizure of the CAFA this morning following a request from |
| 2:20.3 | Ukraine, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said. |
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