Revealed: The untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine & fully Chinese-made drone found for first time

Day 1,248.


Today, we reveal new Patriot air-defence systems have already
arrived in Ukraine, and provide the full, extraordinary story of
the events leading up to President Trump’s u-turn which made that
possible. Then we speak to a former US fighter pilot about the
significance of such weapons deliveries in the air war, and about
the mood in the United States, before a short dispatch from
Wembley on the night Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk became
undisputed heavyweight champion.





Contributors:


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


Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.


Terry Virts (former NASA astronaut and Colonel in the US Air
Force). @AstroTerry on X.


Maria Romanenko (Ukrainian Journalist). @rommari on X.





Content Referenced:


‘The full, untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine’ (Joe Barnes
in The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/25/full-untold-story-donald-trump-u-turn-ukraine-war-us-russia/ 


Ukrainian soldiers cut off from Musk’s Starlink after blackout
(The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/25/ukrainian-soldiers-cut-off-from-musks-starlink-after-outage/


Zelensky defied US order to scrap controversial corruption law
(The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/07/25/zelensky-defied-senior-us-officials-on-corruption-law/ 


Fully Chinese-made drone found in Ukraine for first time (The
Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/23/fully-chinese-made-drone-found-in-ukraine-for-first-time/





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