Can President Zelensky sell his ‘victory plan’ to the Americans?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky’s in the US for a diplomatic mission to try and sell President Biden his ‘victory plan’. But what’s in it? And can he persuade the Americans to back it?
Two friends of the pod, defence expert Matthew Savill and Russia expert Angela Stent, join Lyse to assess how it might go down with the President, and the two candidates hoping to succeed him, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Today’s episode is presented by Lyse Doucet. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming and Julie Ball. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Richard Fenton-Smith. 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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 944 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.0 | And this week, President Zelensky is in the United States for a marathon |
| 0:16.4 | diplomatic mission. The timing is critical. How are you? See you soon. Again. |
| 0:23.0 | The timing is critical. |
| 0:26.0 | President Biden only has months to go in the Oval Office. |
| 0:30.4 | And President Zelensky, with his sense of timing wants to ensure victory for Ukraine is on the top of his agenda when he comes to think of his legacy. |
| 0:42.0 | So in a very, perhaps we can say a very |
| 0:44.8 | very president Selensky way he started his time in the United States in |
| 0:49.2 | President Biden's hometown Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he visited a weapons factory. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you, 400 people, save millions of Ukrainians because of the |
| 1:04.4 | right now the Ukrainian president is in New York for the United Nations |
| 1:09.2 | General Assembly the top table of world leaders President Biden has delivered his |
| 1:16.4 | farewell address. We cannot grow weary. We cannot look away and we will not let up on our support for Ukraine. |
| 1:26.0 | Not to Ukraine wins with just an adorable peace when you went charter. |
| 1:30.0 | So President Selensky will rub shoulders with world leaders from the world over |
| 1:38.0 | before he heads off to Washington where he'll sit down with Joe Biden and with the two candidates vying to be his |
| 1:47.4 | successor and to all of them he wants to pitch what he calls his victory plan. |
| 1:54.0 | It's a bridge to diplomatic way how to stop the war. |
| 1:59.0 | The bridge is a plan of victory or victorious plan. |
| 2:03.0 | It's strengthening... |
| 2:04.0 | I was President Zelensky speaking in an interview with ABC News. |
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