Putin 'will not surrender' territory amid 'most vital week of diplomacy since Second World War'
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,100.
Today, amid more drone strikes on Ukraine and North Korea deploying new troops, we return to what some are calling one of the most significant weeks of diplomacy since the Second World War, as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s attempts to persuade the President to provide a security “backstop” for Ukraine. Later, we hear a training exercise involving British and Ukrainian troops, and hear the latest on kidnapped children.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Venetia Rainey (Co-host of the 'Battle Lines' podcast). @venetiarainey on X.
Karolina Hird (Russia Deputy Team Lead and Analyst at the Institute for the Study of War). @KarolinaAHird on X.
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Content Referenced:
Dispatch of British troops training Ukrainian forces (Venetia Rainey on Battle Lines - our sister podcast):
Telegraph Ukraine Live Blog:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/27/north-korea-sends-more-troops-to-russia-ukraine/
Macron has ‘no mandate’ to send European troops to Ukraine, says Meloni (The Telegraph):
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, amid more drone strikes on Ukraine and North Korea deploying new troops, we return |
| 0:13.0 | to what some are calling one of the most significant weeks of diplomacy since the Second World War, |
| 0:18.0 | as British Prime Minister Kirstama attempts to persuade President Trump |
| 0:21.8 | to provide a security backstop for Ukraine. Then, later, we hear a training exercise involving |
| 0:28.4 | British and Ukrainian forces and the latest on kidnapped children. |
| 0:33.4 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:42.7 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:47.6 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:48.8 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:53.5 | We can not as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.3 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 1:00.3 | We're strong. |
| 1:01.6 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 1:03.8 | It's Thursday, the 27th of February. |
| 1:07.4 | Three years and three days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:11.6 | And today I'm joined live in London by our Associate Editor for Defence Dom Nichols |
| 1:15.5 | before a dispatch from Venetia Rainey and an interview with Carolina Heard of the Institute for the Study of War. |
| 1:23.5 | But first, over to Dom for the major battlefield developments. |
| 1:30.2 | So let's start. North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia. |
| 1:35.1 | An official for South Korea's National Intelligence Agency has said this morning. |
| 1:40.7 | South Korea's UNHAP News Agency said following about a month-long lull, North Korean troops were placed back in the frontline region of Kursk, starting in the first week of February. |
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