UK Column News — 16th October 2026

Mike Robinson (0:18)

Good afternoon. It's Friday the 16th of October, 2026, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host, Mike Robinson. Joining me in the studio today is Patrick Henningsen. Welcome to the program, Patrick.

Patrick Henningsen (0:27)

It's great to be with you, Mike.

Mike Robinson (0:29)

By video link, we have Basil Valentine. Later in the program, we'll be discussing this week's Supreme Court hearing into the inability to request judicial review when the Attorney General refuses to reopen inquests into someone's death and will be joined by a special guest for that. We'll be looking into Hamish de Bretton-Gordon's connections to MI6 and we'll be reporting on Wes Streeting's view of the future of US-UK defense relations. But we're going to begin, Patrick, with you and Zelensky's latest visit to the UK.

Patrick Henningsen (0:58)

Well, here he is, he's arrived. He's arrived, the little green goblin has landed in the UK. As you can see, he is there with King Charles. And well, I guess he's hoping to get things.

Certainly his ultra-nationals are expecting that he arrives back in Kiev and not empty-handed here. So what are we looking at? This is the shakedown artist who is in the UK, he's doing rounds of interviews, Mike. I don't know if you've seen it, but the Piers Morgan media opportunity for the Ukrainian president, I don't want to call him elected because he's two years out of mandate. He suspended elections indefinitely until such a time that he claims it's safe to have elections, i.e. the war is over on his terms, which means there'll never be elections. Either he goes first or leaves the country or whatever. But so extraordinary things were said in this Piers Morgan interview, and also extraordinary things were said, not only by Zelensky, but by Piers Morgan himself. The first thing was this incredible claim that Zelensky has made about the true number of casualties. And he just can't answer this question straight. Here it is.

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:14)

Huge amount. The biggest during all this...

Piers Morgan (2:18)

How many casualties?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:19)

43,000 each month now.

Piers Morgan (2:21)

Really? Can you... On the Russian side alone?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:23)

On the Russian side alone.

Piers Morgan (2:25)

How many are you losing on the Ukrainian side?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:29)

I can't share. But between us, for today, it's from 7 to 10, 1 to 7, 1 to 10

Piers Morgan (2:39)

The ratio?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:39)

Yeah.

Piers Morgan (2:40)

From Ukrainian to Russian?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:41)

Yes.

Piers Morgan (2:42)

So for every Ukrainian being killed, 7 to 10 Russians are being killed?

Volodymyr Zelensky (2:46)

Every Ukrainian now kills from 7 to 10

Patrick Henningsen (2:51)

Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. So that's the claim made by Zelensky, Mike. 43,000 Russian troops per month are getting killed. Well, all the experts that we've been speaking to, and the ones that seem to really know what's going on are saying, well, it's more like the opposite. The ratio, he's saying 10 to 1 We reported on the exchange of dead bodies. Ukraine doesn't have any to trade with the Russians. When they do the meetup points, the Russians, however, have a lot of Ukrainian dead conscripts to trade. So the evidence suggests that Zelensky is lying. That's a very important line, Mike, because this is key in selling the war to the Europeans, to the British public, to get people to think we need to keep going. We're winning. Remember in the summer, Ukraine's turned the corner? What was that, July? Suddenly, in August, they weren't. So anyway, that's how the propaganda is going.

But we'll put it in perspective. Look at this man.

Sorry.

Mike Robinson (3:54)

We'll go back. Let's keep talking.

Patrick Henningsen (3:59)

Yeah. So this man here, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson here. The West should have armed Ukraine earlier to deter Russia. He's flogging his book. This was just a few months ago. This is the man that's really responsible for this conflict.

Boris Johnson basically sabotaged the Istanbul Peace Agreement in March and April of 2022 and promised Zelensky that not to sign this agreement, which would have given him, ended the war effectively. They would have kept their territory minus Crimea, of course.

But now people are basically saying, no, that never happened. That's historical fact. But this is the information campaign that's going on. We'll bring this up here, and you'll see a lot of these here. US and Boris Johnson forced Ukraine not to sign the peace deal in Istanbul. This is by the European Union is calling this disinformation. And if we go through the media, we see tons of stories like this. This is a PR campaign here. This is a disinformation campaign. Putin repeats nonsense claims that Boris Johnson scuppered efforts to end the Ukraine invasion. So there's clearly a campaign going on here. That is an actual disinformation campaign. As we said last week, the only hybrid war that we can see going on in Europe and the UK is the hybrid war being waged by our governments against the population in Europe and the UK and the West more broadly. That's the only hybrid war that we're seeing here. Now, the other thing, Mike, that you continually see in this conversation is this fetishization of the Second World War. Like, we can't, Putin can't be allowed to win. How many times have we heard this?