Children rescued from kindergarten hit by drone & Putin defies Trump to wreck Budapest peace talks

Day 1,337.

Today, after Vladimir Putin defied Donald Trump to wreck the proposed Budapest peace talks, we report how overnight attacks ended with children having to be evacuated from a burning kindergarten in Kharkiv after it was hit in a Russian drone strike. Plus, British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles hit their targets in Russia and, later, we hear about how for civilians in Ukraine, learning the specific sound of drones can be a matter of life or death… and how their buzzing can stay with survivors a long time after the attack.

Please note, this episode features real sounds of drones from the frontline.

Contributors:

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

Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Journalist and Producer). @adeliepjz on X.

Kieran Kelly (Foreign Reporter).

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Putin defies Trump to wreck Ukraine peace talks (Connor Stringer and Joe Barnes in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/21/trump-no-longer-plans-meet-putin-hungary

Ukraine strikes Russia with British Storm Shadow missiles (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/22/british-storm-shadow-missiles-strike-russia-chemical-plant/

Germany wants to use Iceland as a logistics base for the Navy (Hartpunkt):

https://www.hartpunkt.de/pistorius-sieht-island-als-logistik-basis-fuer-die-marine/

Europe and Ukraine Prepare 12-Point Proposal to End Russia’s War, Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/europe-and-ukraine-prepare-12-point-proposal-to-end-russia-s-war

Russia’s Lvova-Belova Admits to Kidnapping Ukrainian Orphan to Russia Despite His Resistance

https://united24media.com/latest-news/russias-lvova-belova-admits-to-kidnapping-ukrainian-orphan-to-russia-despite-his-resistance-12679

The War of Sound, The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/The-War-of-Sound/

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