Moscow suffers its second bloodiest month of the war & "great powers do not fear escalation" says Trump's envoy
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,077.
Today, we discuss the slashing of USAID and how Trump wants to access Ukraine’s rare minerals in exchange for military support, and we report on Russia having more losses over the last two months than at any other point since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Contributors:
Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Narrative Podcast Producer). @adeliepjz on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor, Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With special thanks to Asami Terajima (Reporter at The Kyiv Independent). @AsamiTerajima on X.
Content Referenced:
Battle Lines, our sister podcast, exploring wider global affairs:
Trump wants Ukrainian rare earths deal in return for US military support (FT):
https://www.ft.com/content/94efcd8a-93ce-4ca6-bd07-061bfed1fdbf?shareType=nongift
Biden administration slowed Ukraine arms shipments until his term was nearly done (Reuters):
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine, “The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world”:
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1994357/?lang=en
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Adelae Poshman-Pontei, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:07.5 | Today, we talk about the slashing of US aid and how Trump wants to access Ukraine's rare minerals in exchange for military support. |
| 0:15.1 | Meanwhile, on the front lines, Russia has had more losses over the last two months than at any other point since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. |
| 0:24.1 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:33.1 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:37.9 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:39.1 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:44.1 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:48.6 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:50.6 | We're strong. |
| 0:51.8 | We're Ukraine is. |
| 0:53.5 | It's Tuesday. The 4th of February, two years and 340 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm joined by Dom Nichols, Associate Editor for Defense, and Francis Dernley, executive audio editor. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, hi, Adley. Hello, everybody. Let's start inside Ukraine. A Russian missile strike this morning |
| 1:14.2 | on the town of Izium, that's about 100k southeast. Harkiv, killed at least five people injured |
| 1:20.1 | at least 24. That's according to Governor Olae Sibinov. Residential buildings and a civil |
| 1:26.2 | administration building were hit by what's been |
| 1:28.8 | assessed as a cruise missile. That was part of a wider overnight attack that saw 65 drones |
| 1:35.7 | fired by Russia across five Ukrainian oblasts. 37 were shot down, 28 others were either brought |
| 1:42.0 | down by electronic warfare or decoys and harmlessly piled in. |
| 1:46.3 | Attacks elsewhere across Keev City and Harkev Heirs-on and Sumio Blast killed another couple and |
| 1:53.0 | another two and injured many more. |
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