Putin strikes NATO: Romania hit in 'major escalation' & interviews with ‘brainwashed’ Russian PoWs

Day 1,554.


Today, as Romania kicks Russian diplomats out of the country
following a drone strike last night that has injured civilians in
the eastern city of Galati, we ask, why is it so easy for Romania
to name the perpetrator of such attacks when others still seek to
avoid apportioning blame. We then look at reports Russia is
continuing to be hit hard on the southern corridor, including now
by drone-landed mines, followed by the second part of Francis’s
special dispatch from the La Biannale art festival in Venice,
today looking at the decision to permit the reopening of the
Russian Pavilion and his encounter with Pussy Riot. And we finish
with an audio dispatch from me, after my visit to a prisoner of
war camp in western Ukraine. 


Contributors:


Dom Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.


Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley
on X.


With thanks to the soldiers, artists, and curators at the ‘Still
Joy’ exhibition in Venice, and to Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy
Riot.


Producer: Rachel Porter


Senior Producer: Lilian Fawcett


Video Producer: Sophie O’Sullivan


Social Producer: Tom Steed


Studio Director: Meghan Searle


Executive Editor: Francis Dearnley


Created by David Knowles


Additional thanks to Tom Steed and Natalia Makohon for dubbing.


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CONTENT REFERENCED:


Dom’s full documentary interviewing POWs:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJwjbWheClk 


Francis’s first dispatch from Venice and La Biennale:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay2UT-SeKDI 


Learn more about ‘Resistance Imprisoned’:


https://www.ritschfisch.com/exhibition/resistance-imprisoned/ 


Learn more about the PinchukArtCentre’s exhibition ‘Still Joy’
(running until 1st August):


https://pinchukartcentre.org/en/exhibitions/still-joy-from-ukraine-into-the-world-biennale-arte-2026 


Russian drone hits Romanian apartment block in ‘grave escalation’
(The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/29/russia-ukraine-war-drone-strikes-romanian-apartment-nato/ 


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Putin strikes NATO: Romania hit in 'major escalation'

Dom Nicholls interviews ‘brainwashed’ Russian PoWs






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