Zelensky 'shouldn’t target Moscow', says Trump & Russia commits 9,000 illegal chemical weapon attacks in Ukraine
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,239.
Today, as mass attacks struck Ukraine overnight, we continue analysing the latest developments from Washington as Trump, when probed by reporters, seemed to shy away from the promises he’d made to Zelensky on July 4th. Finally, we have a conversation with Ukrainian Cultural Forces on the role of music in cultural diplomacy and in rehabilitation for wounded soldiers.
Contributors:
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Reporter and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
Content Referenced:
Cultural Forces of Ukraine:
https://culturalforces.org/en/
Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call (Financial Times)"
https://www.ft.com/content/b66f03b5-e295-4f8c-92ba-516a527d588c
In squeezing Putin, Trump 'escalates to de-escalate' (Washington Post):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/trump-ukraine-war-missiles-russia-arms-package/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Adelaipersman-Pon-Ponte, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:14.2 | Today, as mass attacks struck Ukraine overnight, we continue to analyze the latest developments from Washington, as Trump, when |
| 0:21.9 | probed by reporters, seemed to shy away from the promises he'd made to Zelensky on July 4th. |
| 0:27.7 | Then, we have a conversation on the role of music in cultural diplomacy and in the rehabilitation |
| 0:33.2 | of wounded soldiers. |
| 0:36.2 | Bravery takes you through the most |
| 0:39.3 | unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:45.3 | The Russia does not want face. |
| 0:47.3 | First, we're in our help for the Ukraine |
| 0:50.3 | also our freedom and our European |
| 0:54.5 | wreaths. |
| 0:55.8 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 0:59.6 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:04.8 | We can't, as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 1:09.0 | Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. |
| 1:12.4 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:14.9 | It's Wednesday, the 16th of July. |
| 1:18.1 | Three years and 144 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm joined by Joe Barnes, our Brussels correspondent, and Mikhailai Seeger, |
| 1:26.7 | founder of the Cultural Forces of Ukraine, |
| 1:28.9 | a unit of army veterans who are also artists, and travel around Ukraine and the world. But first, |
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