Russia's invasion: what could a peace deal look like?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have been underway this week. At the same time Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities have come under savage bombardment. If some sort of peace is to be brokered what compromises might be possible and what will be required to get there?
David Aaronovitch is joined by:
Oleksiy Semeniy, former advisor to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Aglaya Snetkov, author of “Russia's security policy under Putin” and a lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London.
Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a visiting professor at King’s College, London.
Dr Julie Norman, lecturer in politics and international relations at University College London and co-director of its US politics centre.
Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter Production Co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed Studio Manager: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:10.0 | The briefing room is the metaversal learning space, |
| 0:13.0 | where you and I get 28 minutes with the top experts to understand a big issue. |
| 0:18.0 | This week is a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine feasible, |
| 0:22.7 | and if so, what would it look like? As the bombing and shelling continues in Ukraine, |
| 0:30.0 | so too do negotiations between invader and invaded on what might bring it all to an end. |
| 0:36.1 | It's the obvious big question. |
| 0:38.3 | If some sort of piece is to be concluded, |
| 0:40.6 | what compromises might be required |
| 0:42.6 | and are those compromises at all likely? |
| 0:46.1 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 0:58.1 | First, let's consider the Ukrainian position. |
| 1:02.6 | Olexi Semini is director at the Institute for Global Transformations and is a former advisor to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. |
| 1:07.3 | He's in Kiev. |
| 1:08.8 | The briefing room's Rosamond Jones asked him about his country's negotiating position. |
| 1:13.3 | Much more better than it was the case of the previous rounds held in Belarus. |
| 1:18.7 | Firstly, humanitarian corridors, and maybe, and I hope it could be exactly in the next days, |
| 1:24.3 | maybe some agreements on ceasefire in concrete locations to provide these |
| 1:28.4 | humanitarian corridors. Then some agreement, for example, about exchange of detained or imprisoned |
| 1:36.1 | military persons or dead persons. That could be definitely. But they have not reached agreement |
| 1:43.3 | maybe on the major issues discussed. |
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