Gun battles reported in Russia as Ukrainian saboteurs wreak havoc & Russian warplane factory 'ablaze'

Day 1,183.


Today, as Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Kursk after the
Kremlin erroneously claimed all Ukrainian soldiers had been
completely pushed out of the territory, we look at the latest
deep strikes on Russian infrastructure, hear from an ambulance
convoy in Ukraine, and speak to a central advisor of the European
Union on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.


Contributors:


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


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


With thanks to Brock Bierman (Founder of the non-profit Ukraine
Focus).


And Bob Dean (Head of the Security Unit of the Netherlands
Institute of International Relations)


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Content Referenced:


Learn more about ‘Ukraine Focus’, delivering ambulances to
Ukraine:


https://ukrainefocus.org/ 


https://ukrainefocus.org/programs/zelensky-truck/ 


Ukraine has shown you can now buy an intelligence agency off the
shelf (Ben Wallace in The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/20/intelligence-agencies-no-longer-just-for-governments/


Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem (New
York Times):


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html 


Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine
(New York Times):


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/russian-troops-peace-putin.html 


Losing friends, fast (POLITICO):


https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/losing-friends-fast/ 


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