Could Zelensky Still do a Deal With Trump?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today, in this extra episode, Laura and Paddy get back together to talk after Laura met President Zelensky.
He told her, and a group of other journalists, that he is still "ready to sign" a US-Ukraine minerals deal after leaving the White House without it being agreed.
Laura explains what it was like to be in the room as he also explained he wants “the Ukrainian position to be heard."
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we're doing a bonus episode of newscast. |
| 0:08.0 | You can judge if it's a bonus. |
| 0:09.3 | It's an extra one. |
| 0:10.2 | Laura's spoken to Vlodomere Zelensky. |
| 0:12.5 | There's been a four-point plan agreed by the European leaders meeting at Lancaster House in London. |
| 0:17.3 | Laura, you've been up for 23 hours. |
| 0:20.4 | Are you going to make any sense? |
| 0:24.1 | Probably not, but I will do my best. The question is whether any of this situation makes sense. |
| 0:30.3 | So the Europeans have been talking about ponying up to spend more on defence to have Kirsarmer's |
| 0:34.9 | four-point plan, which is the UK and France coming up with their ceasefire deal, then giving that to the US, |
| 0:40.2 | then getting more European countries to promise troops to police any potential peace. |
| 0:44.8 | But then also tonight, just before he got on the plane, |
| 0:47.5 | and genuinely, absolutely, just before he got on the plane. |
| 0:51.1 | And then we saw his plane leave from St Stansted Airport after he finished speaking to us. |
| 0:55.5 | President Zelensky, after a wild weekend, |
| 0:58.6 | I think kind of wanted to get the last word in. |
| 1:01.1 | So they invited a small group of journalists |
| 1:03.1 | to the VIP bit of Stansted Airport |
| 1:05.7 | where we were able to ask questions to him |
| 1:08.0 | for nearly an hour and a half |
| 1:10.0 | about all the roller coaster of things |
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