Exclusive: ‘My son moved to Russia for love. Now, he’s missing on the front line’
Ukraine: The Latest · Sep 15, 2026 · 40:52
Ukraine: The Latest · Sep 15, 2026 · 40:52
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Day 1,661.
Today, the Danish Prime Minister condemns the latest ‘reckless action’ by Moscow, after a Russian frigate in the Baltic Sea fired flares at a military helicopter. NATO jets were also in action last night, shooting down a drone over Lithuania. The Ukrainian commander who masterminded the recent counterattack in the Donbas region gives a little more detail about what happened. And in news that will surprise almost no one, Donald Trump’s claim to have got a deal over the line between Kyiv and Moscow about a ceasefire on energy facilities has, just like Russia’s Syzran oil facility last night, gone up in smoke. Later, Dom speaks to the mother of a man missing on the frontline after being forced to fight for Russia.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.
With thanks to Valerie Stobbart.
Producer: Phil Atkins
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
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
My son moved to Russia for love. Now, he’s missing on the front line (Dom Nicholls and Natalia Makohon for The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/my-son-moved-russia-love-missing-front-line/
Civil servant sacked after asking Telegraph to find son missing in Ukraine (Dom Nicholls for The Telegraph)
Russian frigate fires flares at Danish military helicopter (The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/nato-italy-jets-shoot-down-drone-lithuania/
Zelensky sanctions press secretary who accused him of using drugs (The Telegraph)
Putin’s plan to paralyse Ukraine (Antonia Langford for The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/putins-plan-paralyse-ukraine/
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin (ProPublica)
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy (New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/jared-kushners-dollar-diplomacy
Learn more about the Ukrainian Film Festival in London:
https://uil.org.uk/ukrainian-film-festival-2025-through-love-and-loss-2/
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