March 4, 2022: Can a wider war be prevented?
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by America's Plastic Makers. |
| 0:04.1 | Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Roku Mono Boland. It's Friday. In today's show, |
| 0:08.7 | a look at the latest on the war in Ukraine. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. |
| 0:17.6 | Here's what broke overnight in Ukraine. This comes by way of the Associated Press. |
| 0:21.5 | Quote, Ukrainian firefighters on Friday extinguished ablaze at Europe's biggest nuclear |
| 0:25.9 | power plant that was ignited by a Russian attack and no radiation was released, as Russian |
| 0:30.3 | forces seized control of the site and pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite |
| 0:34.8 | global condemnation. |
| 0:36.1 | The head of the United Nations Atomic Agency said that the Russian projectile hit a training |
| 0:40.3 | center at the plant. |
| 0:41.4 | Ukraine's state nuclear regulator earlier said that no changes in radiation levels have been |
| 0:45.4 | recorded so far after the Zaporizia plant came under attack. |
| 0:48.8 | The White House said Thursday night that President Joe Biden had spoken with Ukrainian President |
| 0:52.7 | Vladimir Zelensky and top U.S. nuclear security officials about the incident. |
| 0:57.8 | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, |
| 0:59.8 | Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe. |
| 1:04.7 | The UK announced it would seek an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the matter. |
| 1:09.1 | Biden has been adamant that he'll protect every inch of |
| 1:11.6 | NATO territory and that no American troops will step foot in Ukraine. The discipline to prevent |
| 1:16.5 | escalation that leads to a NATO-Russian war and to remain firm about his no boots on the ground |
| 1:21.2 | pledge is being tested every day. The pressure on Biden to intervene is increasing. Biden's first |
| 1:26.7 | test is the no-fly zone. |
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