Putin and Zelensky deliver messages to the world
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben record a second episode this week on Ukraine to discuss President Zelensky’s speech to Congress, the latest on US weapons transfers to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s terrifying authoritarian speech, Russian attacks on civilians, hope for peace talks, bad faith attacks on Biden by Republicans and the frustrating way Ukraine is being covered in the US. Then Ben speaks with Sviatoslav Yurash, the youngest member of Ukraine's Parliament about the post-Maidan generation and his close friend, journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova who was killed while covering the war.
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- Nova Ukraine: donate to humanitarian aid for Ukraine
- Vox: How you can help Ukrainians
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsay for World on Tommy VTour. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:15.1 | Ben, good to see you again. |
| 0:16.5 | We're doing another extra episode this week because it just feels like there's been |
| 0:20.9 | a lot. |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah, I mean, it's been like not even three days and it feels like it's been three weeks. |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah, so it's five, fifteen Pacific time on Thursday. |
| 0:31.7 | Things we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:33.1 | President Zelensky speech to Congress on Wednesday, the latest on the US assistance |
| 0:36.6 | to Ukraine, including weapons transfers, Vladimir Putin's terrifying, bizarre authoritarian |
| 0:42.3 | rant, peace talks and attacks and civilians. |
| 0:46.4 | And then I just have to do it, Ben. |
| 0:48.2 | I know this is a serious foreign policy show, but I just need to talk about bad faith |
| 0:51.3 | attacks from Republicans and press coverage because I'm starting to lose my mind. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, well, I mean, unfortunately, that's part of the background noise that we're going |
| 1:01.0 | to be dealing with. |
| 1:02.0 | That will never escape. |
| 1:03.0 | And then you spoke, I used to interview this morning with the youngest member of Ukraine's |
| 1:07.0 | parliament. |
| 1:08.3 | Can you tell us a bit about the conversation? |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, I checked at Vyatislav Yurosh, who's the youngest member of parliament in Ukraine's |
| 1:14.8 | 26 years old. |
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