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Ukraine: The Latest

Trump lashes out at Putin as ceasefire talks stall & America’s secret military partnership with Ukraine

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Vladimir Putin, Jets, Daily News, Guns, Army, Tanks, Documentary, Russians, History, Russia-ukraine Conflict, News, Ukraine, Society & Culture, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia, War

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Day 1,132.

Today, as reports surface of Russian attempts to get behind Ukrainian lines in the Donbas by going underground, we assess the impact of Donald Trump’s supposed loss of patience with both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asking how much of the rage is concocted, and we hear more about the experience of women who endured torture at the hands of the Russians.



Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

David Blair (Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator). @davidblairdt on X.

Verity Bowman (Journalist). @VerityBowman on X.



Content Referenced:


Dom’s Panel at Oxford Literary Festival:

https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/april-02/the-russian-threat-why-it-has-grown-and-how-to-fight-back


These Ukrainian women survived Putin’s prisons – now they’re taking revenge (Verity Bowman in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/ukraine-female-prisoners-of-war-russia-putin-prisons/ 


The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html


How British commandos helped bring the CIA into the heart of the Ukraine war (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/31/british-commandos-cia-ukraine-war-zelensky-putin-russia/ 


European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in Nato (Financial Times):

https://tinyurl.com/bd82v98r 


The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says:

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-next-coalition-vows-punish-hungary-viktor-orban-friedrich-merz/ 


Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints (Washington Post):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pentagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/ 


The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says (POLITICO):

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-next-coalition-vows-punish-hungary-viktor-orban-friedrich-merz/



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Domnichols and this is Ukraine the latest. Today, as a report's surface of Russian attempts

0:08.5

to get behind Ukrainian lines in the Dombast by going underground, we assess the impact of Donald

0:14.0

Trump's supposed loss of patience, with both Putin and Zelenskyy asking how much of the rage

0:19.4

is concocted, and we hear from foreign reporter

0:22.2

Verity Bowman on the experience of women who endured torture at the hands of the Russians, and also

0:28.0

from Chief Foreign Affairs commentator David Blair, who interviewed the president of Finland

0:32.6

just after his seven-hour Gulf diplomacy with Donald Trump.

0:37.4

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

0:46.7

It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II.

0:51.6

Absolutely fascinating.

0:52.8

We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years.

0:57.8

We can't as European let's gain the Russia in Ukraine.

1:02.3

Nobody's going to break us.

1:04.3

We're strong.

1:05.6

Where Ukraine is.

1:08.2

It's Monday, the 31st of March, three years and 36 days since the full-scale invasion began.

1:14.7

Today I'm joined by Executive Editor for Audio Francis Durnley, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator David Blair,

1:21.1

and foreign reporter Ferriti Bowman.

1:23.7

But first, developments in the military sphere.

1:29.7

And Saturday night saw Russian forces hit a military hospital and civilian infrastructure in Harkeyev City.

1:37.4

Ukraine's Air Force said that Russia had launched one ballistic missile from Rostov-Oblast,

1:42.4

that's to the east of the Sea of Aov in Russia, and 111 Shahed and

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