Can Ukraine survive without US military aid?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky says Ukraine is "ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership" to negotiate a peace deal and is ready to sign a minerals deal.
His comments come after the US decision to pause military aid. We get reaction from Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova and ‘Neo’, a soldier currently fighting in Donetsk region.
And we speak to Mark Galeotti, Director and CEO of the consultancy firm, Mayak Intelligence.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
It was recorded on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30pm UK time. The producers were Ryan Johnston and Ben Carter. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The assistant editor is Ben Mundy. 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 | Hello, Ukrainecasters. Thank you very much for listening to this latest episode of our podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | You've probably noticed we've been doing a lot more episodes recently and we'll keep trying to do them, of course, as and when a big story breaks. |
| 0:13.5 | We really appreciate you listening. We really appreciate you getting in touch. And we are here for as long as it takes. Thank you so much. |
| 0:22.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, it's 1,105 days since Russia began its |
| 0:29.7 | full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vitali, another huge development overnight, the US, pausing |
| 0:34.2 | all military aid to Ukraine. And not just what the US might be giving Ukraine at some |
| 0:41.7 | point in the future. This applies to equipment that's literally a few miles away from Ukraine |
| 0:47.0 | in eastern Poland. So equipment that's been in transit to Ukraine now that's not going to |
| 0:53.1 | Ukraine, none of it. We're going to react to that. We not going to Ukraine. None of it. |
| 0:54.5 | We're going to react to that. We're going to bring you analysis of that. We're going to |
| 0:57.3 | ask what this means for Ukraine. In the meantime, we got this voice note from Olga, who is a friend |
| 1:01.8 | of this podcast, who lives in Hearson right on Ukraine's front line. |
| 1:05.2 | The stoppage of military aid will cause more deaths of both soldiers at the front and civilians in all parts of Ukraine. |
| 1:13.7 | Our blood will be on Trump's and his cabinet's hands. |
| 1:19.0 | It won't bring any peace closer. |
| 1:21.8 | There will be more refugees if he thinks that four-hour regions can be just easily given to Putin to stop the war, |
| 1:33.1 | it's a lie. It's betrayal of people of Ukraine, not peacemaking deal. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, Ogad just sounds so downhearted there, doesn't she? |
| 1:45.0 | Hardly surprising. No, hardly surprising, but it's not her at all. |
| 1:47.0 | She is being one of the most upbeat, resilient. |
| 1:50.0 | You know, I'm staying in my country until my country is completely liberated kind of people. |
| 1:55.0 | But to hear her saying it's going to lead to, you know, further killing is just utterly disheartening. |
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