Russia invades Ukraine: how should the UK respond?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A dark day for Europe. Armed forces minister James Heappey joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion pub to talk about how the government should respond to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The MP for Wells warns that decisions made in Western capitals over the next week cannot be viewed as a "quick fix" for such an 'epoch changing' moment, and why the UK will not be committing troops.
Also on the podcast, Bob Seely MP, decries years of what he calls 'government complacency then panic' towards Russian aggression.
Plus, Chris is joined by two journalists covering this unfolding story on the ground - the Telegraph's own Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow describes the shock of the Russian people and banks running out of foreign currency and The Times' Askold Krushelnycky in the East of Ukraine talks about the calm, quiet determination of the Ukrainians in the region.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on chopper's politics. |
| 0:06.0 | Putin is costing the Russian nation, tens of thousands of the |
| 0:15.0 | life life of its bravest and best. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics and this is Chopper's |
| 0:19.7 | Politics. |
| 0:21.7 | Hours ago, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, and we're here in the Red Lion Pub to bring you the very latest |
| 0:27.4 | analysis of what Vladimir Putin's decision means for the West, and what Britain must do now. It's a fast moving |
| 0:36.3 | situation and we're recording our podcast before Boris Johnson has addressed |
| 0:40.7 | the nation and MPs about the rapidly evolving crisis in Europe. |
| 0:46.0 | Coming up we'll be speaking to James Heepy, the Armed Forces Minister, |
| 0:51.0 | and Bob Seely, Torrey MP Fiale of White and a long time Russia critic. |
| 0:57.6 | But first, the UK is painting Vadimir Putin as out of touch with his people by launching this attack on Ukraine. So how has it |
| 1:05.9 | gone down in Moscow? Natalia Vassileva, the telegraphs Russia correspondent, is in the city |
| 1:12.1 | right now. |
| 1:13.0 | Natalia, welcome to choppers politics. |
| 1:16.0 | Good morning. |
| 1:17.0 | We're talking you from the Red Line pub. You're in Moscow. |
| 1:21.0 | How has Vladimir Putin's comments gone down amongst Muscovites, amongst ordinary Russians? |
| 1:27.6 | It was a complete shock to say the least, both ordinary people and pundits have been saying for years that a full scale |
| 1:36.1 | invasion of Ukraine was completely inconceivable. It's quite telling that Russian |
| 1:41.3 | State TV doesn't use the words war or Ukraine. They call it a special |
| 1:47.2 | operation in the Donbus in Eastern Ukraine. We're seeing reports, and I have been to one of them, we're seeing reports that banks and Moscow running out of cash, they're running out of |
| 1:56.3 | foreign currency. |
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