Putin forced to slash budgets after oil price fall & precision strikes batter Russian infrastructure

Day 1,185.

Today, as Ukraine closes Moscow’s airspace for the third night in a row we get our regular update about resistance activities in the occupied territories, report from a NATO exercise in Sweden and, for a little pick me up at the end of the week, you’ll hear what happened when Francis and Dom were introduced to strong Ukrainian coffee.

Contributors:

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

Dr. Jade McGlynn (War Studies Department of King's College). @DrJadeMcGlynn on X.

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Content Referenced:

Hear more about Venetia's trip on our sister podcast 'Battle Lines':

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/23/battle-lines-trump-edition-inside-trumps-new-star-wars-prog/

Learn More about Vadym's Coffee:

https://www.instagram.com/vadymgranovskiy/

How Ukraine's best coffee maker joined the fight against Russia (GQ):

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/coffee-man-of-ukraine-war-vadym-granovskiy

Joseph Nye obituary in The Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/05/12/joseph-nye-foreign-policy-soft-power-washington-obama-bush/

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