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Hello. Hello and welcome to the Battleground podcast with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Our special guest today is Eddie Scott, a 28-year-old British volunteer who lost a leg and an arm in a Russian drone attack while he was evacuating people from the frontline town of Percrofts in February.

But first, before we get to that incredibly moving and inspirational interview,

let's look at the news this week, and it's been, I have to say, Patrick, a week of mixed

fortunes for Ukraine.

It started out brightly enough with an encouraging meeting

between Presidents Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump

on the fringes of the NATO summit in The Hague,

but it ended with the shocking news

that the US is halting supplies of key weapons systems to Ukraine

as the White House puts America's interests first.

Yeah, that's a very worrying development, which we'll come on to later.

But just to get back to that NATO summit, while the members agreed to raise their spending targets

by 5% of GDP on core defence requirements as well as a wider category of

defence and security related spending. So that sounded like a positive development. But as I said

last week, there's a lot of smoke and mirrors involved in arriving at those figures. That goes for all of the countries involved. And the UK,

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