Can Diplomacy Prevail In Ukraine?
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🗓️ 17 March 2022
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Marie Yovanovitch is skeptical. The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine tells NPR a no-fly zone should be kept on the table, citing the unpredictability and ruthlessness of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Yovanovitch has written a new memoir, Lessons From The Edge. More from her conversation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly here.
Former Naval Intelligence Officer Steven Horrell says there's an emerging possibility of a so-called 'frozen conflict' in Ukraine, with Russian forces failing to advance but also refusing to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | In Ukraine, President Vladimir Zelensky says right now every night is like 9.11. |
| 0:07.0 | Every night for three weeks now, various Ukrainian cities, Odessa and Khartichrnyi, |
| 0:13.8 | even Sumer, Jotomer and Lviv, Marok well in Dimpros. |
| 0:17.4 | Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people. |
| 0:25.7 | He was talking about terror from the skies in the form of Russian air strikes. |
| 0:30.1 | This video addressed this week to US members of Congress, speaking through a translator. |
| 0:35.1 | Zelensky said he's grateful for American support so far, but he called on the US to go |
| 0:39.6 | farther by helping establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine. |
| 0:44.1 | He showed a brutal two-minute video. |
| 0:48.8 | Graphic images of bleeding civilians, small children dead in the street, buildings destroyed |
| 0:54.7 | in fiery explosions. |
| 0:56.4 | At the end, text on the screen red, close the sky over Ukraine. |
| 1:03.1 | In the darkest time for our country, for the whole Europe, I call on you to do more. |
| 1:11.5 | But a no-fly zone would mean shooting down any Russian aircraft that's treason to it, |
| 1:16.4 | and US officials are very wary of that. |
| 1:19.4 | So where does the conflict go from here? |
| 1:21.9 | Every war ends with negotiations and diplomacy, and this one will as well. |
| 1:27.1 | Maria Ivanovich, former US ambassador to Ukraine, longtime diplomat, she told me this week |
| 1:32.6 | that even as negotiations between Ukraine and Russia continue, she thinks the Biden administration |
| 1:39.3 | should keep all military options on the table, including a no-fly zone. |
| 1:44.1 | We can't let Putin set the conditions for this war of choice that he started in a country |
| 1:52.1 | not his own. |
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