Exclusive: ‘My son moved to Russia for love. Now, he’s missing on the front line’

Exclusive: ‘My son moved to Russia for love. Now, he’s missing on the front line’

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)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/civil-servant-sacked-telegraph-appeal-son-missing-ukraine/

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)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/volodymyr-zelensky-press-secretary-drugs-ukraine-russia/


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)

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin


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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Contact the team on ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk. We continue to read every message, and seek to respond to as many as possible.


HIGHLIGHTS:


  • Exclusive: ‘My son moved to Russia for love. Now, he’s missing on the front line’
  • Denmark condemns ‘reckless action’ after a Russian frigate fired flares at a military helicopter



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