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.

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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)
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/my-son-m…

Civil servant sacked after asking Telegraph to find son missing in Ukraine (Dom Nicholls for The Telegraph)
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/civil-se…
Russian frigate fires flares at Danish military helicopter (The Telegraph)
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/nato-ita…

Zelensky sanctions press secretary who accused him of using drugs (The Telegraph)
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/volodymy…

Putin’s plan to paralyse Ukraine (Antonia Langford for The Telegraph)
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/putins-p…

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin (ProPublica)
propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding…

Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy (New Yorker)
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/jared-kushne…

Learn more about the Ukrainian Film Festival in London:
uil.org.uk/ukrainian-film-festival-2025-throug…

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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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