Moscow car bomb kills Russian General & Miami weekend talks “do not improve” peace proposal

Day 1,397.


Today, as three days of talks in Miami between the US, Ukraine
and Russia fail to produce anything of substance, we report how
Emmanuel Macron may pick up the diplomatic baton with a potential
phone call this week with Vladimir Putin. We report the breaking
news of a car bombing in Moscow that has killed another senior
Russian General and of another Ukrainian strike against Russian
energy facilities in the Caspian Sea. And later, you’ll hear a
report from our last trip to Ukraine when we visited a
prosthetics factory in Odesa.


Contributors:


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


With thanks to video producer Jack Leather.


Video version of our report on the prosthetics factory in
Odesa:


https://youtu.be/m-vZshCP4nY


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CONTENT REFERENCED:


Steve Rosenberg’s actual question to Putin:


https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/2002328372253503933?s=20


Russian TV’s interaction with the fake Steve Rosenberg:


https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/2002804837486850215?s=20


Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation


https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russia-losing-time-putins-2026-hybrid-escalation


Reuters: US intelligence indicates Putin's war aims in Ukraine
are unchanged:


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-indicates-putins-war-aims-ukraine-are-unchanged-2025-12-19/


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