Daily: Despatch from Kyiv with John Sweeney

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What’s the situation like on the ground in Ukraine? Nearly a week after Russia invaded, veteran war correspondent John Sweeney dials in from Kyiv to give Arthur Snell the lowdown on Europe’s first ground war since 1945, and why Putin’s gamble might have backfired. “From day one I thought Putin had made a mistake, and this invasion is not going well.” “This feels to me like Twilight of the Gods, Putin has made a miscalculation.” “Putin is pulling the military levers and they’re not working.” “Putin is a rational actor, blundering around in a dark bunker of his own making.” “It feels like this war is very 20th century. Putin is a Tsar, entirely out of touch with his people.” “I think Putin is finished. His regime has reached the beginning of the end.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Arthur Snell. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.0	wearing his lucky orange beanie, pounding the streets of Kyiv via his Patreon platform. If you're not following him you should be. John, a veteran
1:24.6	war correspondent, is joining us right now from Ukraine's capital on Monday the
1:29.2	28th of February as Russia's tanks are only a small number of miles from the city.
1:34.4	John, welcome to the bunker from your bunker.
1:37.2	No, my name is John Sweeney, not Vladimir Putin. I'm not on a bunker. I'm in a nice flat with windows and Italian red wine and stuff like that.
1:50.8	I know I've actually sourced the bunker which I can't actually disclose its
1:54.9	location but if it gets nasty I'll go below ground but at the moment it's okay.
2:00.8	Well John it is for me and for all of our listeners very good to hear your
2:04.8	voice and hear you in good spirits. Tell us first of all what today the 28th of
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