308. Is Kyiv Risking Western Support?

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A week after President Trump's stunning U-turn, Saul and Patrick discuss a surge of renewed Western support for Ukraine. With Europe announcing its 18th sanctions package, imposing a landmark oil price cap to cripple Russian revenues and targeting the shadow fleet used to evade them. However, as Western aid floods in, a tide of protest is rising on the streets of Kyiv. President Zelensky has signed a controversial law bringing independent anti-corruption agencies under his control, sparking the largest public dissent since the full-scale invasion and drawing serious warnings from the EU about Ukraine's membership path. Plus, we look at Putin's plan to create a "digital Gulag" with a new mandatory spy app, 'Max', designed to monitor all Russians. And we speak to friend of the podcast Julius Strauss, who has just returned from a trip to the Baltics. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	Until 9th of September from 11 AM, participating restaurants only subject to availability. Hello and welcome to battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop. In a moment we're going to speak to podcast regular Julius Strauss, who recently returned
1:11.7	from a trip to the Baltics. But first, a quick roundup of the latest news from Ukraine. And the big
1:16.7	story this week is that a week after Trump's welcome U-turn, Europe is standing firm in its support
1:22.5	for Kiev. More concerning, however, are the first reports of anti-government protesting Keeves since the full-scale invasion.
1:30.9	We'll come on to that, Patrick.
1:32.3	But let's start with Europe's standing firm.
1:35.2	It seems encouraging, doesn't it?
1:36.9	That's right, Saul.
1:38.1	Yeah.
1:38.6	We had the announcement last weekend that the European Council of the European Union has approved its 18th sanctions
1:47.8	package targeting Russian oil revenues and sanction evasion schemes. Now this is a lot of detail
1:55.7	of this but it does and you might say well if they've had 18 or 17 before, why should this make most difference?
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