Putin forced to slash budgets after oil price fall & precision strikes batter Russian infrastructure

Day 1,185.


Today, as Ukraine closes Moscow’s airspace for the third night in
a row we get our regular update about resistance activities in
the occupied territories, report from a NATO exercise in Sweden
and, for a little pick me up at the end of the week, you’ll hear
what happened when Francis and Dom were introduced to strong
Ukrainian coffee.


Contributors:


Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor for Defence). @DomNicholls on X.


Dr. Jade McGlynn (War Studies Department of King's
College). @DrJadeMcGlynn on X.


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Content Referenced:


Hear more about Venetia's trip on our sister podcast 'Battle
Lines':


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/23/battle-lines-trump-edition-inside-trumps-new-star-wars-prog/


Learn More about Vadym's Coffee:


https://www.instagram.com/vadymgranovskiy/


How Ukraine's best coffee maker joined the fight against Russia
(GQ):


https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/coffee-man-of-ukraine-war-vadym-granovskiy  


Joseph Nye obituary in The Telegraph:


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/05/12/joseph-nye-foreign-policy-soft-power-washington-obama-bush/


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