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The Story

How Putin played the West in the prisoner swap

The Story

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Last week, 24 prisoners, spanning seven countries, were exchanged in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War. Is this a triumph for diplomacy, or just a triumph for Putin?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guests:

  • Grainne McCarthy, Chief Digital Editor International, The Wall Street Journal.
  • Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence and honorary professor at UCL.

Host: Luke Jones.

Clips: ABC News, The White House, Sky News. 


Further reading: Prisoner swap doesn’t mean Cold War 2.0 has eased. It may get worse

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Turns apply. From the Times and Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. On Thursday, Groyna McCarthy from the Wall Street Journal, arrived at work as some long-awaited

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news was finally breaking.

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There was groups of reporters kind of like

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standing around the newsroom sort of talking quietly

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and because you know a bunch of us kind of more senior editors were on a meeting in a conference call and

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They were sort of trying to figure out what was going on everyone knew something big was brewing and some other news organizations began to report that Evan had been released.

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We're coming on the air because there's breaking news. We're getting a word of potentially

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