12 Months On: President Putin’s Next Steps?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ukrainecast comes together with Putin, the BBC Sounds and Radio 4 podcast which examines the life, times, motives and modus operandi of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Returning to the show are three lifelong Kremlin-watchers to cast ahead and speculate on just how this war might develop.
Professor Nina Kruscheva is an historian at The New School in New York and the great grand-daughter of Nikita Kruschev, Sir Laurie Bristow was the UK’s Amabassador to Moscow from 2016-2020, and Vitaly Shevchenko is the head of the Russia section for BBC Monitoring.
Today’s episode was presented by Jonny Dymond as part of a series of episodes marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. The producers were Fiona Leach and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | It's 364 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Johnny Diamond, and in this special episode, |
| 0:19.2 | Ukraine cast has teamed up with Putin, |
| 0:22.8 | the series for BBC Radio 4 and Sounds |
| 0:25.7 | that has charted and analysed |
| 0:28.2 | the career of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin |
| 0:30.6 | from his days as a young KGB operative |
| 0:33.6 | in St Petersburg to the man who has plunged |
| 0:37.0 | Europe into its deepest war since 1945. |
| 0:45.7 | In this episode of Putin, we change |
| 0:48.4 | tack and rather than looking back, |
| 0:51.1 | we cast a head and, yep, we will speculate. |
| 0:54.7 | What might Mr. Putin do next? |
| 0:59.2 | Now, unfortunately, we see that |
| 1:02.2 | the ideology of Nazism is already in its modern scale. |
| 1:06.2 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:08.2 | Ukraine cast for BBC News. |
| 1:11.2 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart-haired and pain. |
| 1:16.2 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:19.2 | Putin is the aggressor. |
| 1:21.2 | He will be ready to use nuclear weapons. |
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