In this episode...

02:29 - The Russian Spring Offensive is showing its new priorities

10:05 - Zelensky goes to Turkey for Russia to put on a production of diplomatic theater

24:16 - Pope Leo XIV showing himself to be a friend of Ukraine

30:06 - US Ambassador to Ukraine resigns in protest over Trump policy

34:03 - Orban government in Hungary grows increasingly hostile as their designs on the Zakarapatia region become public

45:25 - Romanian presidential elections come in with a victory for the pro-Ukraine candidate over the pro-Russia one

54:30 - Eurovision song contest 2025

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In this episode...

02:55 - Getting ready for the Spring offensives

10:00 - A string of devastating Russian missile strikes, especially in Sumy and Kyiv

15:46 - Along with a prisoner exchange, Russia also returns the tortured remains of the Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna

18:51 - Chinese volunteers fighting for Russia, but so was the son of a high-ranking CIA official

28:14 - America, Europe, and Russia present their peace plan proposals

41:23 - We don't need to get so excited every time an American conservative says something nice about Ukraine

56:43 - Remembering the mixed legacy of Pope Francis

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In this episode...

00:03:35 - Combat Update: Ukrainian withdrawal in Kusk, current Russian offensive over

00:14:05 - Weeks-long Russian missile and drone barrage hits close to home

00:21:15 - Every ceasefire talk you have been hearing about has been complete bunk

00:37:58 - Russia plans expulsion of Ukrainians from occupied territory

00:43:07 - Trump ends RFE/RL, we talk about its background and impact

00:56:17 - Trump cancels programs investigating Russian war crimes, including finding kidnapped children

01:04:00 - Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute loses grant to fund translations of Ukrainian literature

01:06:00 - Protests against autocracy and corruption in Serbia, Georgia, Turkey, and Hungary.

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