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Preview: Colleague Jeff McCausland Diagrams the Heart of the Talks to End the Ukraine Tragedy, Crimea. More

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Jeff McCausland Diagrams the Heart of the Talks to End the Ukraine Tragedy, Crimea. More
1824 CRIMEA

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:32.1

This is John Batchelor.

0:36.1

Conversation with Jeff McCawson, my colleague at CBS News,

0:42.7

about the offer from Putin and the offer from Trump to Zelensky.

0:46.8

Putin says, give up Crimea, the war will stop.

0:50.3

Drum says, give up Crimea and the war will stop.

0:53.3

Zelensky says, I can't give up Crimea. It's that simple. More of this tonight.

0:58.6

The way the deal seemed to have going was this bilateral negotiation between the United States and the

1:04.0

Russians, really over the heads of the Ukrainians and the Russians then trying to urge us to

1:09.1

impose an agreement upon Ukraine, which is still,

1:11.8

I think, in the cards, at least as far as the Trump administration is concerned.

1:16.2

That particular agreement would have forced the Ukrainians to acknowledge the sovereignty of Russia

1:22.1

over Crimea, which they occupied in 2014.

1:27.1

It probably also forced the Ukrainians

1:31.1

to publicly decide that they would not

1:35.0

become a member of NATO at any time and future

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