Peace Talk Promises
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Russia has promised to reduce attacks around Ukraine’s capital at face-to-face talks in Turkey. Victoria, Vitaly and Newsnight’s Lewis Goodall ask if that’s a hopeful sign or just empty words.
After reports about the poisoning of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian peace negotiators, we speak to Max Colchester, one of the journalists who uncovered the news, and former Soviet intelligence officer, Dr Boris Volodarsky, a spy expert who himself was poisoned in 2005.
And we get an update on the situation in Russian-occupied Mariupol, where the mayor has pleaded for all remaining residents to be evacuated, with Ukrainian MP Dmytro Gurin, who is from the besieged port city.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Phil Marzouk, Emma Forde and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 33 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, and a new round of peace talks |
| 0:10.2 | face-to-face talks are underway in Turkey, chaired by their president, Recep Edouin. |
| 0:16.2 | We believe that a just peace will not have any losers. |
| 0:23.4 | It's not to the benefit of anyone for the conflict to be prolonged. |
| 0:27.8 | It will be to the benefit of everybody to achieve a cease-fire and establish peace as soon |
| 0:33.4 | as possible. |
| 0:34.9 | At this stage, you, as the members of the delegation, have assumed an historic responsibility. |
| 0:41.8 | The whole world is waiting for good news from you. |
| 0:46.9 | And there have been developments, which we will bring you on this edition of Ukraine |
| 0:50.8 | cast, but who can be seen at the talk, suggesting their translator had phones non-other than |
| 0:57.6 | a Roman Abramovich, who looks like he has recovered from his poisoning. |
| 1:04.1 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:06.1 | Ukraine cast, from business. |
| 1:09.7 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:18.9 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:23.6 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:25.8 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:30.9 | Hello, this is Victoria in Kent. |
| 1:33.6 | It's Lewis Goodall here too, BBC News and I, it's policy editor also in Kent. |
| 1:37.6 | And it's Vitaly and the studio in London. |
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