Crisis in Ukraine: From the 18th Century to Today

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Since late 2013, Ukraine has been in crisis. But the problems there go much further back. To examine the history of the conflict in Ukraine, we welcome one of our first guests, Professor Chris Bellamy, back to the podcast. Chris takes us right back to the late 18th century to look at the sources and development of the crisis. Chris is Professor Emeritus of Maritime Security at the University of Greenwich and author of a number of books including Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and welcome to warfare a podcast that is on the front line of military history each week twice a week I bring you cutting edge military histories new historical findings and we place current world events into their proper historical
0:16.0	context.
0:17.0	In fact, that's exactly what we're doing in this episode.
0:20.0	As President Putin builds up his troops on the Ukrainian border, were joined by the acclaimed
0:25.2	war historian, veteran and war correspondent, Professor Chris Bellamy.
0:29.9	He is the author of absolute war, Soviet Russia in the Second World War.
0:34.8	Chris takes us through Ukraine's long history of conflict from the Russia-Turkish Wars of the
0:39.5	1700s through revolutions, famines, world wars and cold wars to bring us right up to the present
0:45.8	day. I know you're going to love this one. It is a fascinating history, so please pop us a five-star
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0:55.4	rate us on Spotify as well which is a great new feature for the new year.
1:00.0	But now here is the ever brilliant Chris Bellamy on war conflict and the history of Ukraine.
1:06.5	Enjoy. Hi Chris welcome back to the History Hit Warfare Podcast. It's been a while and in fact I looked through because I had to check this.
1:28.0	You were our first ever guest on this podcast. You did an excellent episode on the siege of
1:34.9	Leningrad so tell us it's been a while how is your new year going my new year is
1:41.7	going fine my wife is back from Zimbabwe where she works for a major NGO. She
1:48.6	managed to pick up COVID on the way thanks to the way that they ran Heathrow and the buses taking people from the terminal
1:56.2	to the quarantine hotels but she's tested negative they let her out before Christmas
2:02.0	and she's fine.
2:03.4	Oh, well that's so good to hear you were able to spend Christmas together
2:07.8	at least. And thank you so much for taking the time to come on during what sounds like
2:12.1	it's been a pretty turbulent Christmas period.
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