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Ukraine: The Latest

White House texts secret war plans to journalist & frontline soldiers react to Trump’s plans

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

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Day 1,126.

Today, following the latest updates from the battlefront, we look at the extraordinary security breach that saw a journalist invited into a secret chat group for Donald Trump’s war cabinet, and then hear about the mood of Ukrainian soldiers at the front.



Contributors:

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

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

Gareth Corfield (Transport Correspondent). @GazTheJourno on X.

Verity Bowman (Foreign Correspondent). @VerityBowman on X.



Content Referenced:


The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans (The Atlantic):

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/


Francis’s Video Interview on Silicon Curtain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uu4_YHgPQ&t=586s


Verity’s Telegraph Pieces:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/v/va-ve/verity-bowman/ 


Trump cabinet complained about ‘free-loading Europe’ in top secret group chat (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/24/trump-cabinet-complained-free-loading-europe-secret-chat/


Zelensky on Trump, Putin, and the Endgame in Ukraine (TIME):

https://time.com/7270880/zelensky-trump-putin-ukraine-endgame-interview/


What the Kremlin Wants in New Talks with the U.S. on Ukraine (The Moscow Times):

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/23/playing-for-time-what-the-kremlin-wants-in-new-talks-with-the-us-on-ukraine-a88445



NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:

The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them, or click the links below.

Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatest

Learn more about the tech: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/24/ukraine-the-latest-podcast-russian-ukrainian-ai-translation/


Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest

Email: [email protected]



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine the latest.

0:07.6

Today, following updates from the battlefront, we look at the extraordinary security breach

0:12.7

that saw a journalist invited into the secret chat group for Trump's war cabinet,

0:18.3

and then hear about the mood of Ukrainian soldiers at the front lines.

0:24.3

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

0:33.6

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

0:38.5

Absolutely fascinating.

0:39.7

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

0:44.7

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

0:49.2

Nobody's going to break us.

0:51.2

We're strong.

0:52.4

We're Ukraine is.

0:54.7

It's Tuesday, the 25th of March, three years and 30 days since the full-scale invasion began.

1:02.5

And today I'm joined by a full house of telegraph journalists, associate editor of defense,

1:07.4

Dominic Nichols, our in-house technology expert, Gareth Corfield,

1:11.4

and foreign reporter Verity Bowman, who has just returned from her trip to Ukraine.

1:17.0

First, though, over to Dom, for the latest from the military sphere.

1:23.6

Well, thanks, Francis. Hello, everybody. Let's start on the ground in Russia.

1:29.3

Ukrainian forces have made small advances in the Demidovka area. That's along the international

1:35.2

border in the northwestern region of Russia's Belgrade Oblast. Now, Demidovka, a very tiny village,

1:42.5

basically just along two main roads, about 30k south of Soudia.

1:47.2

And this small, I use the word again, small cross-border incursion is not linked up with the remnants of that Ukrainian push into Kersk Oblastersk that's up in the north.

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