How serious are Putin's nuclear threats?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Your questions answered on ATACMS, land mines and the risk of escalation
Jamie and Vitaly are joined by the defence editor of the Economist, Shashank Joshi, to examine how useful ATACMS can be for Ukraine, what exactly are anti-personnel land-mines and whether we should take Russia's change to its nuclear doctrine seriously.
Today’s episode is presented by Jamie Coomarasamy and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producer was Ben Carter. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sara Wadeson. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 1,00 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.6 | And Vitaly, in that last day, the last 24 hours or so, rather a lot has happened, hasn't it? |
| 0:16.1 | Yes, there have been significant developments, such as the US President, Joe Biden, agreeing to provide Ukraine |
| 0:23.0 | controversially with anti-personnel landmines. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has |
| 0:30.9 | approved changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine, significantly lowering the threshold to using nuclear |
| 0:37.3 | weapons. |
| 0:38.2 | And on Tuesday morning, a strike confirmed to have used US-supplied attack-ams missiles |
| 0:43.6 | targeted a Russian weapon storage facility in Bransk region, bordering Ukraine to the north. |
| 0:50.0 | Yes, and there's been a clip circulating online, showing US-supplied attacker missiles being fired from Ukraine, |
| 0:55.9 | which we are relatively confident happened yesterday. Let's have a listen. |
| 1:05.2 | We are going to try and make sense of all of this and answer some of your questions in this episode. |
| 1:12.3 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:21.3 | Ukraine cast from BBC News. Evil cannot be trusted. Ask Pregojan. You are not dealing with a politician, |
| 1:32.7 | but with a bloody monster. Is there a need for a serious opponent? Why? I will prevent World War III. It's not just about Ukraine. It's about the whole future of Europe. |
| 1:35.7 | I don't understand what this war is for. |
| 1:43.9 | Hello, this is Jamie Kimara Sami in the Ukrainecast studio. And this is Vitaly Shavchenko, also in the crane car studio. And I'm pleased to say, |
| 1:45.4 | joining us Shashank Joshi, defence editor at The Economist. Busy few days, I think, Shashang. |
| 1:52.4 | It's been a busy few days. We've been busy getting to grips with attackms and other missiles. |
| 1:56.9 | It never quiteens down, does it? No, certainly doesn't. And let's start with the news that broke this morning. |
| 2:02.7 | A US defence official telling the BBC that President Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel landmines. |
| 2:10.0 | Let's start with that, Shashank. |
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