Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,091.
Today, as the US welcomes Russia back in from the diplomatic cold with so-called peace talks in Saudi Arabia, we ask who now speaks for Europe and we examine whether hybrid warfare could trigger Article 5. Plus, we discuss Trump’s demand for a $500bn (£400bn) “payback” from Ukraine.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to Ilona Khmeleva (Secretary, Economic Security Council of Ukraine). @Ilona_Khmeleva on X.
Content Referenced:
Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold (The Telegraph):
Battle Lines Episode Michael Ignatieff:
Germany rejects Starmer’s Ukraine peace plan: (The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/17/germany-rejects-starmer-ukraine-peace-plan/
Baerbock lets slip: Billions for Ukraine after the election (Berliner Zeitung)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, as the US welcomes Russia back in from the diplomatic cold with so-called peace talks in Saudi Arabia, |
| 0:13.0 | we ask, who now speaks for Europe, and we examine the security priorities Ukraine has in the cyber domain. |
| 0:20.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:28.9 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:33.8 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:35.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. |
| 0:40.0 | We can not as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:44.4 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:46.4 | We're strong. |
| 0:47.7 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 0:49.4 | It's Tuesday, the 18th of February, two years and 354 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 0:55.6 | And today I'm joined by the Telegraph's executive editor for Audio, Francis Dernley, |
| 1:00.0 | and Ilona Bumi Lava, Secretary of the Economic Security Council of Ukraine. |
| 1:04.9 | I started with the latest on the military situation in Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:10.0 | Of course, the big news today is on the diplomatic front |
| 1:13.5 | with a meeting in Saudi Arabia between Russia and the US, where they just finished holding |
| 1:18.8 | actually so-called peace talks. The meetings we're told broke up about 30 minutes ago after |
| 1:23.9 | four and a half hours of talks. Bloomberg is saying that they've discussed a possible |
| 1:29.4 | Trump-Putin meet, but the Russian representative there, Uschukov, next to Lovrov, said |
| 1:34.9 | it is difficult to name a specific date. He said the talks went quite well, but then he couldn't |
| 1:41.3 | really say anything else if he wanted to walk with confidence to any future |
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