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Bekenness to the European Europe,

a part of our state's resolve.

A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,

because an integrated Europe remains vital to our

international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.

This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.

Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Centre for European Reform. I'm Ian Bond,

the CEO's foreign policy director. And it's almost exactly a year since Russia launched a full-scale

invasion of Ukraine. At the time, many observers, me included, suspected that Ukraine's armed forces

would collapse quite quickly, although I thought that Putin would face an impossible task to

control the country as large as Ukraine, particularly if it seemed quite likely, there was an

insurgency. But a year later, Putin only has control of around 20% of Ukrainian territory,

and that has come at a terrible cost to Russian forces, depending on whose estimates you believe

perhaps 200,000 killed and wounded, or perhaps even more. But Ukraine has also lost

many servicemen and women and many civilians. We still don't know how this war will end or what kind

of Ukraine will emerge from it. But joining me today to help me work out some of the answers

are General Sir Richard Sherif, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and Dr. Odessia Jormechuk,

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