Q&A: How are global elections impacting Ukraine?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
There are number of elections taking place across Europe many have seen a move to the right. At the same time the Hungarian president, Victor Orban, who holds the current presidency of the European Union is in Moscow just a few days after he was in Kyiv. To talk about what this all means for Ukraine we put your questions to the BBC’s France correspondent Andrew Harding and Armida van Rij who heads up the Europe programme at Chatham House.
Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko. It was made by Farhana Haider with Arsenii Sokolov, Bella Saltiel and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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 You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast’s Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 863 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.0 | And here in the UK, we have a new Prime Minister and on X, formerly known as |
| 0:15.9 | Twitter, Voldimroselenski has already congratulated Sir Kerestarma on his convincing election |
| 0:22.3 | victory. He added that Ukraine and the United Kingdom |
| 0:25.8 | have been and will continue to be reliable allies through thick and thin. |
| 0:31.6 | This year it's packed with elections we've seen elections in Europe |
| 0:36.0 | with a swing to the right in the Netherlands Germany with AFD |
| 0:40.0 | gains and this weekend of course there's France. And of course one of the most |
| 0:44.6 | pro-Kremlin EU leaders the Prime Minister of Hungary, Victor Orbán, currently holds |
| 0:51.5 | the rotating presidency of the European Union. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, just three days ago he was in Kyiv, at the moment he is in Moscow meeting Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:02.0 | To talk about what all of this means for Ukraine will be putting your questions |
| 1:06.2 | to Andrew Harding, the BBC's France correspondent who's also reported extensively from |
| 1:11.5 | Ukraine and Armida Van Rai who heads up the Europe program at Chatham House. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Ukraine Cast. |
| 1:19.0 | Ukraine Cast from BBC. |
| 1:22.0 | Evil cannot be trusted. |
| 1:24.0 | Ask pre-Gosion. |
| 1:25.0 | You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster. |
| 1:30.0 | Is there a need for a serious opponent? |
| 1:32.0 | Why? Ukraine is unbroken. Is there a need for a serious opponent? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.