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

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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