Putin 'grateful' for Xi's help to end the war & assassination attempt on 'pro-Kremlin' Slovak PM

Day 806. Today, we discuss the latest from the Kharkiv battlefield, Putin’s visit to China, and whether the assassination attempt on Robert Fico could be a Sarajevo-1949 moment. Plus, later, we hear a set of recordings from David Knowles on the ground in Ukraine.
Contributors:
Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.
James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles on X.
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[@user-of6zv2cd8k]

unfortunately words cannot help make artillery tubes, here in Britain we gave up manufacturing in the 1980's, thanks to Margaret Thatcher, in fact we sold anything of value to the highest bidder, shame

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

And Blair and others fella

[@user-of6zv2cd8k]

@@SteveJones-gz4vd yeah when Gordon Brown sold all our gold for what like 300 or something.... y gotta laugh

[@mitchyoung93]

@user-of6zv2cd8k She was just an early global-warming activist, what with her shutting down all those coal mines, etc.

[@Booyaka9000]

Very short memories of the unholy blood-letting that was the 2010 SDSR and who was it that retired the Carrier capability and sold off the entire Harrier fleet to the US for £46 million-- just a touch more than the price of a single Harrier, only to need them desperately 6 months later in Libya.

[@darrenhopkins6829]

Clown comments above

[@RoguehawkEye1963]

lose the ads lads

[@SirKeefyKeef]

‘’Where are all the young men?’’ he asks The fact it has to ask says everything.

[@TheMagicLemur]

He knows - he's just saying.

[@PDFr0]

They’ve all fled because they know Ukraine is DOOMED

[@lw1zfog]

scattered across europa, shopping in Lidl

[@jonbaxter2254]

Tragic scenes with David at the Field of Mars.

[@DaniRaj666]

Sad to hear about Lviv, was there 7 years ago and many good memories. Greetings from Helsinki.

[@robaston8106]

What's with the crappy adverts at the start? But really top quality reporting, once past them. Keep up the great work! Slava Ukraine

[@Pragmacrat]

Listening from Pennsylvania Oblast. I try to tune in this broadcast frequently.

[@jakub.kubicek]

I'm not sure the United *States* is administratively divided into "Oblasts" (the word roughly means "regions" in Slavic languages)

[@fintonking7525]

I nearly burst out laughing when I heard of Putin describing the attempted assassination of the Czech PM, Fico as a "monstrous crime". If Putin ever encounter himself in a nightmare I'm pretty sure he'll wake up screaming. Infact, I sometimes wonder how a person like that can really sleep! It's just as well human beings don't live forever. But I'm sure many people thought the same when Hitler was gone.

[@richpomanFU]

IThe reason that dude was hit is because he doesn't want the WHO treaty. No mainstream will touch on this.. that's what it's about.

[@jakub.kubicek]

Slovak not Czech PM, the Czech PM Fiala is fine. Slovakia and Czech Republic have divorced the federation in 1992.

[@LickyTee]

Did Putin lie?

[@AkenValle]

Bots don't even know countries in Europe.

[@Arealist763]

What we don't understand is that Russia China and India don't accept a world under American leadership. They believe that they must do what is in their interest.. They are prepared to cut any deal. The idea of just following someone because they are part of an alliance is a no no. Turkey and Russia relationship is an example of how they can have differences but still do business.

[@Andariel083]

Дело в том, что следовать за сша, это идти к погибели. Мир США это ЛГБТ, это упадок, это подчинение. Это не наши ценности.

[@pharmerdavid1432]

I believe India will side with USA, EU, UK-Canada-Australia, in coming WW-III - India is a staunch pro-zionist anti-moslem country!

[@MalcolmBeales04]

Very passionate stream Geg, I too feel your pain on people monopolising on the suffering of others.

[@lilicevlogs7669]

What happened to the yesterday's podcast on Spotify?

[@sebastianforbes1]

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo has some interesting truths from Kharkiv... I think The Telegraph should consider bringing Sarah onboard the team ?

[@richardmarsden5610]

BREAKING - Tickets for Red Army Choir performing on tour in Kyiv stadium (The Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex) available from June 6th. (Z-Day) Священная война - The Sacred War [HQ] kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIa9gnSbe72Nqrs

[@jberkeley1195]

Orban is busy shopping for a bullet proof vest 🤔😂😂

[@bigr3805]

biden slapped xi with huge tariffs 🤣

[@John-hj6ed]

Is the Telegrapy showing the new Britain and Nato flag??

[@richardmarsden5610]

Xi holds an informal meeting with Putin at Zhongnanhai kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYrWdX9upZWJi9E Chinese President Xi Jinping held an informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, during which they had in-depth exchanges on strategic issues of common concern. ShanghaiEye魔都眼

[@Kath-nd6pj]

Suddenly we get adverts upfront!

[@maryannedouglas]

There's just something that i do not understand about the West's collective thinking. I'm Scots, living in Aus; Would Australia be willing to give up Tasmania? Did the UK give up on the Falklands? Would the USA give up Hawaii? Why on earth do we think Ukraine is willing to give up their territory, their people? It's the Blitz, and the UK was grateful for the support of our Allies in our time of need. It's our time to reciprocate...all of us. Slava Ukraini 💛 💙

[@PDFr0]

Because the land is Russian - it’s like Tasmania declaring independence and now Australia wants it back - get it now?

[@imrobertgrayson]

They probably could have kept the territory they've lost (aside from Crimea) had the British and Americans not convinced the Ukrainians to stop negotiations with the Russians at the beginning of the war.

[@PDFr0]

@@imrobertgrayson Boris Johnson wanted to role play as Churchill to save his premiership - he personally stopped the whole peace process

[@imrobertgrayson]

@@PDFr0 Unfortunately those responsible for the burning wreckages left behind by the West's foreign policy are never held to account. Just look at Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland.

[@richardwilson57]

Ukraine isn’t an ally…….

[@davewilson6022]

I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY / USE MY DATA TO LISTEN TO YR PODCASTS WITH ADVERTS @ THE START OF YR PODCASTS .IF THIS CONTINUES I WILL NO LONGER WATCH. THERE ARE FAR TO MANY ADVERTS ON U TUBE ALREADY

[@jberkeley1195]

Bye bye 👋 😂😂

[@standardjoyperu]

Nobody is listening anymore. They have to pay for the show.

[@jakub.kubicek]

Skip the ads. Or we can start crowdfunding someone who edits them out then releases for free

[@coodudeman]

nice!!! i was hoping to catch this when it was posted!

[@SirKeefyKeef]

41:40 Yes franny, not nice, any of it true? I mean let’s see the Source.

[@aaseulimoen6038]

😥🌻💜

[@SirKeefyKeef]

This ‘’Pod’’ as Dom likes to call it, I prefer the term ‘’Bubble’’ of Suposition, opinion, evidence free ‘’news’’ and hopeful fantasy projection is a great example of what happens when boys who can’t stop their addiction to the child’s comic ‘’Commando’’. Love and Peace 🙏🤪😂

[@errolkim1334]

Yes. It's Boys Own bullshit, basically.

[@TheMagicLemur]

Says someone who likely gets their news from Moscow State TV! 😂

[@SirKeefyKeef]

@@TheMagicLemur Not available in UK Reason given is Government has no response to any argument proposed.😂🤪😃

[@PDFr0]

Typical Telegraph copium and propaganda

[@SirKeefyKeef]

@@PDFr0 Thanks for the new word! Very apt indeed. 🙏👍😎

[@ignatzly]

Did somebody hack the RSS feed?

[@albin2232]

Why didn't the Kremlin give him better protection?

[@jakub.kubicek]

Cause Mr. Fico has surrounded himself with the most loyal and incompetent people and this is how this ends. This guys' bodyguards did not protect him with their own body and guess what, he had no bulletproof vest on him.

[@yuglesstube]

Does the US uphold democracy and International Law? In Gaza?

[@nicholasfooong.]

Does palestine even have a democracy?

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

​@@nicholasfooong.Does Israel?

[@nicholasfooong.]

@@user-qp8uj1lc3j yes

[@imrobertgrayson]

the 'non-binding' international rules based order lol

[@georgekay6913]

Trying to get multiple sources of info on Ukraine. This channel seems to have good analyses and commentators. But the commercial every 5-10 minutes is distracting & annoying.

[@neilfox3208]

I pay for youtube and get no comercials

[@rubensano4860]

The Telegraph is pure, unfiltered NATO propaganda. That's fine, but balance it with something directly from the Kremlin to get a basic diverse opinion.

[@goldenoriolesilverbirch8220]

'' Lviv....the major Ukrainian city in the far West.....originally was part of the Hapsburg Empire.....and got absrbed into modern Ukraine, Soviet Ukraine a bit later...'' I doubt that a Polish professor of history could have provided a more detailed and informative summary of the city.

[@Cuzthatwouldbeweird]

Russia was once a slave to Mongolia.

[@Bird_McBride]

Someone has to win a public popularity contest.

[@PerfidiousAlbion1815]

Wish the Telegraph would nobble the bots comments…

[@robertsteele474]

👆Big supporter of free speech, I see.☝

[@TheMagicLemur]

Agreed - lots of Russian bots on here giggling about a war. 🙄

[@richardwilson57]

Yes there is only one correct opinion! The Telegraph Opinion!

[@badwolftx2139]

MAJOR props for the ZZ Top reference! Great music can cross political divides.

[@monsieurgrigny]

Great analysis as always.

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

Not only that! Ukranatsies shot 150 Ukrainian men trying to swim across the river to escape to Romania to avoid being thrown in a meatgrinder on front lines, Untrained!! AGAINST THEIR WILL ! They are ethnic Russians AND Ukrainians! While 50 Ukrainian army men A DAY!! defect to Russia from front lines REFUSING to fight !!

[@user-tl9rb2wn4y]

Co to za szajs

[@Puffball-ll1ly]

ZoG new 😮

[@casteretpollux]

Do the journalists of all the banned publications get to go to this event I wonder?

[@nathanhoffman20000]

Looking for a potato? 🥔

[@mitchyoung93]

"Assistant comments editor" always cracks me up

[@lance9150]

They all have made up titles and get paid to produce these copecasts with Ukraine aid.

[@Horseracingtip]

10:01. All the news out there has the shooter as a far left-wing nutcase.

[@nathanhoffman20000]

The opposite of my experience but my sources are varied and carefully screened.

[@DaniRaj666]

Hung out with putinist paramilitaries and wrote a book against the gypsies of Slovakia. Far-right agenda in that country.

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

CIA asset!

[@John_13_35]

He's actually a ruzzian!

[@midimusicforever]

Putin could end the war by sending his men home.

[@richardmarsden5610]

His men are home.

[@burritosls]

Zelensky could simply withdraw troops from Donbass, even before Donbass was still Ukrainian.

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

Not only that! Ukranatsies shot 150 Ukrainian men trying to swim across the river to escape to Romania to avoid being thrown in a meatgrinder on front lines, Untrained!! AGAINST THEIR WILL ! They are ethnic Russians AND Ukrainians! While 50 Ukrainian army men A DAY!! defect to Russia from front lines REFUSING to fight !!

[@alexandermattock8300]

America and nato should never have started it

[@user-uq9pg4vf7b]

In the Transcarpathian region, border guards shot a man in the forest who was trying to illegally leave Ukraine. How do they differ from North Korea

[@Cuzthatwouldbeweird]

In many ways that a morally bankrupt kremlin bot can never understand

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

Not only that! Ukranatsies shot 150 Ukrainian men trying to swim across the river to escape to Romania to avoid being thrown in a meatgrinder on front lines, Untrained!! AGAINST THEIR WILL ! They are ethnic Russians AND Ukrainians! While 50 Ukrainian army men A DAY!! defect to Russia from front lines REFUSING to fight !!

[@TheMagicLemur]

Ask Russia, who's a direct ally of NK. 😅

[@robertsteele474]

@@TheMagicLemur 👈Lots of SBU bots on here giggling about a war.

[@APW-ry2ok]

Russia should of been dealt with when the UN voted. Why the delay ?

[@wesley135]

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

[@BlueboyIvyandRubythedogs.]

Hell no America we do not support damn ukraine

[@wesley135]

@@BlueboyIvyandRubythedogs. ok Ivan

[@yuglesstube]

Zelensky has destroyed ukraine because he accepted US and UK assurances that sanctiins would cause Russia to fail. He should have negotiated. What a disaster.

[@diego5079]

Tried negotiating before, learned the hard way not to trust Putin's Russia

[@yuglesstube]

@diego5079 it was the West that deceived Russia at Minsk. It was the West that violated their promise not to expand NATO IN 91 and again at the Bucharest Summit in 08. It was the West that failed to honour the Black Sea Grain Deal. Tell me which treaties or agreements the Russians did not honour. It was the West that persuaded Zelensky to pull out of the agreement being forged in Feb Mar 2022 that the Ukrainians wanted to sign and would have avoided war.

[@gpadd_ow]

The west doesn’t want negotiation either they want to destroy Russia and it’s economy.

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

Correct! Not only that! Ukranatsies shot 150 Ukrainian men trying to swim across the river to escape to Romania to avoid being thrown in a meatgrinder on front lines, Untrained!! AGAINST THEIR WILL ! They are ethnic Russians AND Ukrainians! While 50 Ukrainian army men A DAY!! defect to Russia from front lines REFUSING to fight !!

[@John_13_35]

Negotiate? Can't negotiate w a lion while your head is in its mouth.

[@ananamu2248]

Multi polar world sounds great ...but not with those bullying and aggressive countries ...russia and china are both run on fear ,not sharing and caring .....ukraine combines both caring and protection .

[@duggdog9102]

What sanctions have china and russia put on other countries ????

[@yuglesstube]

That's delusional. The West are the aggressors. They caused this.

[@richardwilson57]

Weren’t we the bullies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam??

[@Meld61]

This should be the BBC the Bellendsky broadcasting Coup

[@DarkCriimes]

Lviv sounds absolutely beautiful. Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦🫡

[@richardmarsden5610]

It's links to Ukrainian fascism isn't beautiful in any way, shape or form.

[@casard5235]

A question over the decades : What does the U. N. do to moderate, ameliorate violent situations around the world? If they are doing something, better P. R. is needed. Slava Heroiam Ukraini, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 from Canada 🇨🇦 Stay strong, keep smart.

[@CatherineMitchell-vw3ix]

So sad.

[@marisabenson1222]

Yes putin descibes one attempted assassination as "a monstrous crime " but says nothing about another that was recently thwarted. He is a man of great honour and care deeply for the rule of law.

[@mitchyoung93]

@marisabenson1222 In one case we have an abundance of video evidence, independent reporting, and a prime minister in the hospital. In the other case we have the Ukrainian governments word for it.

[@jasft9746]

​@@mitchyoung93Dear leader wouldn't hurt anyone. 😢

[@Bird_McBride]

Meanwhile down in the trenches

[@Bird_McBride]

Zelenski's like only got threatened ten times.

[@davewilson6022]

IAM AMAZED OF ONLY ONE ASSINATION APTENT GIVEN THAT PUTIN IS RESPONSEABLE FOR THE LOSS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS INNOCENT LIVES WITH HIS CRAZY UNJUSTIFIED ON UKRAINE AND BEING CONTINUALLY ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER.GO FIGURE W.T.F..HI FROM AUSTRALIA TO ALL THE UKRAINE'S POPULATION

[@SirKeefyKeef]

43:49 I am with Lindsey Graham on that one… Great Value for Money!

[@user-qp8uj1lc3j]

Is it though? Over 600,000 Ukrainian military are de@d ! 100's NATO officials and Thousands of "mercenaries" NATO troups are de@d also Not only that! Ukranatsies shot 150 Ukrainian men trying to swim across the river to escape to Romania to avoid being thrown in a meatgrinder on front lines, Untrained!! AGAINST THEIR WILL ! They are ethnic Russians AND Ukrainians! While 50 Ukrainian army men A DAY!! defect to Russia from front lines REFUSING to fight !!

[@Bird_McBride]

No one smokes cigars.

[@danp2965]

‘ Xi is not stupid ’ must be the political analysis apex of the year so far …

[@darrenhopkins6829]

Ghe propaganda is ridiculously strong today

[@Cuzthatwouldbeweird]

Comrade vova go to the front

[@TheMagicLemur]

Yea - says someone who listens to Kremlin propaganda without question. 😂

[@robertsteele474]

@@TheMagicLemur 👈👈👈Lots of SBU bots on here giggling about a war.

[@TheMagicLemur]

@@robertsteele474 Laughing at the hypocrisy of anyone who's pro Russia claiming they're not influenced by propaganda. 🙈 Still not SBU.

[@robertsteele474]

@@TheMagicLemur Laughing at the hypocrisy of anyone who's pro US claiming they're not influenced by propaganda.😬

[@abrakadavra3193]

Fico sometimes prononunced as Fiko? By whom? By ignorant people who have no bussiness being journalists?

[@jozefeiben4104]

Pro Kremlin politician???? Pro slovakian politician who almost died for looking after slovakian interests!!!! Stop spreading lies!!!!

[@RadcliffeWilliams-cn9qd]

Ukraine courting America in Russia bedroom .This must stop.

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Explain

[@jasft9746]

russia can leave anytime it wants to

[@lance9150]

Ukraine could keep what they have now if they negotiate a peace settlement. The longer it goes on, the smaller Ukraine will be at the conclusion. They will never get Crimea back, they'll be lucky to keep Kharkov now.

[@nathanhoffman20000]

Russian AI is about as good as Chinese construction it seems.

[@AkenValle]

Propaganda here is of charts.

[@Bird_McBride]

Liz died. Putin looks at Charlie like daaa.

[@diva3577]

Liars

[@errolkim1334]

Francis Dearnley has the voice of a geeky nerd

[@standardjoyperu]

They all do. Makes me thank my ancestors for leaving the the land of snarky clown presenters.

[@errolkim1334]

I only listen to them to get an idea of how corrupted they are..

[@SpinneyVerdun]

unfortunately words cannot help make artillery tubes, here in Britain we gave up manufacturing in the 1980's, thanks to Margaret Thatcher, in fact we sold anything of value to the highest bidder, shame