Trump to let Putin keep land seized from Ukraine & huge explosion destroys ammunition dump outside Moscow
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,155.
Today, we break down the dramatic collapse of Donald Trump’s proposed peace deal for Ukraine. European, Ukrainian, and American officials were scheduled to meet – until everything suddenly unraveled. Is the US stepping back from the negotiation table? Plus, we launch a brand-new segment focusing on Russia’s domestic front and explore how the ongoing war is reshaping Central Asia’s political and economic landscape.
Contributors:
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.
James Kilner (Editor of The Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin and The Russia Morning Memo). @jkjourno on X.
Content Referenced:
James Kilner’s Bulletins -
The Russian Memo: https://www.thememo.news/
The Central Asia and South Caucasus Bulletin: https://www.thememo.news/
Trump to let Putin keep land seized from Ukraine (The Telegraph):
Foreign ministers postpone Ukraine peace talks in London (The Telegraph):
Huge explosion destroys ammunition dump outside Moscow (The Telegraph):
Crimean Tatar Mejlis rejects any international recognition of Crimea as Russian (Kyiv Independent):
CNN gets first glimpse of Trump portrait reportedly sent from Putin (CNN):
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/22/world/video/trump-portrait-russia-putin-ldn-digvid
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Domnichols and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:04.0 | Today as European and American officials meet in London to discuss post-seasfire options, |
| 0:10.0 | we look at the deal the US is expected to put to Ukraine and Russia, |
| 0:14.0 | and we take a deep dive into wider Russian diplomacy, |
| 0:18.0 | including, through the use of oil paintings of Donald Trump and a potential railway |
| 0:22.1 | deal with the Taliban. |
| 0:24.6 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:34.0 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:38.8 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:40.0 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:45.0 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:49.4 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:51.5 | We're strong. |
| 0:52.7 | We're Ukrainians. |
| 0:54.4 | It's Wednesday, the 23rd of April, three years and 59 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:00.7 | And today, I'm joined by our executive editor for audio, Francis Dernley, |
| 1:04.9 | Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes, and the Telegraph's former Russian correspondent, |
| 1:09.5 | James Kilner, now editor of the Central Asia and South Caucasus Bulletin and the Russia Morning Mement. |
| 1:16.3 | But first updates from the front. And please note that this recording took place before news came in of the explosions in Moscow, which we will be covering tomorrow. |
| 1:29.8 | Now, explosions at a weapons and ammunition depot in Russia's Vladimir region that started on |
| 1:35.9 | Tuesday have been, quote, gradually ending, according to regional authorities, which obviously |
| 1:41.7 | must be a good thing, I suppose. Schools, buses and roads in the area will remain closed today. |
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