As war drags on in Ukraine, is it time to talk compromise?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
U.S. aid is helping Ukraine in its ongoing battle with Russian invaders. But ongoing conflict comes with a risk. As war drags on ... is it time to talk compromise? Anne Applebaum, Steven Simon and Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:32.6 | It's nearly four months since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:36.4 | While Ukrainians who fled the capital |
| 0:38.3 | of Kiev have slowly been returning, the situation in eastern Ukraine is very different. |
| 0:49.1 | The sound of fighting just a few days ago in several donates, a city in the far east. |
| 0:54.9 | Russia has been intensifying its attack there as it's slowly, very slowly, takes more ground. |
| 1:01.4 | Look at a live map of the conflict, like the one produced by the Institute for the Study |
| 1:06.6 | of War, and you'll see a crescent of red in Ukraine's east, sweeping from hair sun in the |
| 1:12.4 | south through melatopal and mariopol in the middle up and around to the suburbs of |
| 1:17.4 | Kharkiv in the north. |
| 1:19.4 | That crescent represents all the territory that Russia has taken from Ukraine since the |
| 1:24.2 | war began. |
| 1:25.9 | Earlier this month, President Zelensky estimated that Russia now occupies 20% of his country. |
| 1:33.0 | In back forces occupied part of the east before the war, but that territory has now tripled. |
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