CER Podcast: War in Ukraine: Where are we two years on?

Centre for European Reform

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4.4 • 52 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast Dame Melinda Simmons, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine 2019-2023, and Hanna Shelest, Director of Security Programmes at the Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian Prism, join the CER's Deputy Director, Ian Bond, on the two-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They examine the media's portrayal of the conflict and shed light on the mood in Ukraine before suggesting how Ukraine might navigate its defence production challenges and what Europe can do to help. Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Octavia Hughes

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:28.2	Well, hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Center for European Reform.
0:33.6	I'm Ian Bond, the CEO's deputy director.
0:36.4	Ukraine marks a number of anniversaries in February.
0:39.6	On the positive side, it's the 10th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity,
0:43.9	which ended with the flight of the leptocratic president, Victor Yanukovych, from Kiev.
0:49.6	But more sadly, it's also the 10th anniversary of the appearance in Crimea of little green men,
0:55.8	Russian forces without insignia, which led a few weeks later to Russia's annexation of the
1:01.3	peninsula and then to Russia's intervention in eastern Ukraine. And of course, it's also
1:06.7	the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February the 24th, 2022,
1:13.4	an invasion that launched a war that has cost, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky,
1:19.1	the lives of 31,000 Ukrainian troops, and many times that number of Russian service personnel,
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