Russia's invasion: what more can the west do to help Ukraine?
The Briefing Room
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's a month now since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. The west have sanctioned Russia and provided aid packages to Ukraine but what more can it do to help Ukraine win the war?
Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:
Gustav Gressel, senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Berlin office.
Dr Sarah Schiffling, International research fellow at the Humanitarian Logistics Institute in Helsinki, Finland and senior lecturer in supply chain management at Liverpool John Moores University.
Javier Blas, energy and commodities columnist at Bloomberg and co-author of the 'The World for Sale’.
Algirde Pipikaite, cybersecurity and digital transformation policy expert at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
Producers: Ben Carter, Kirsteen Knight, Octavia Woodward and Louise Clarke-Rowbotham Production Co-ordinators: Iona Hammond and Siobhan Reed Studio Manager: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:09.9 | The briefing room is the metaversal learning space, |
| 0:12.7 | where you and I get 28 minutes with the top experts to understand a big issue. |
| 0:17.7 | This week, the Russian invasion has turned into a brutal war of attrition. What more can |
| 0:23.5 | be done to help Ukraine survive it? A month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what was |
| 0:31.9 | supposed to be a lightning campaign, has turned into an exhausting and bloody war of attrition. |
| 0:39.3 | Fighting a war like this, especially if you're the smaller, weaker side, is desperately hard. |
| 0:45.6 | From missiles to energy embargoes, what more can and could the West be doing to help Ukraine survive this battle? |
| 0:54.1 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. Thank you. the West be doing to help Ukraine survive this battle. |
| 0:56.4 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:06.2 | First, let's start in the obvious place with military aid. |
| 1:10.4 | Western countries have pledged billions of pounds worth of weapons for Ukraine, |
| 1:16.3 | but President Zelensky recently told Boris Johnson that Ukraine is getting through in 20 hours what is supplied in a week. So what more can be done to help? |
| 1:21.3 | Gustav Gressel is a senior policy fellow specialising in security with the wider Europe programme |
| 1:26.6 | at the European Council on Foreign |
| 1:28.4 | Relations. Gustav Gressel, billions of dollars worth of military aid has already been pledged to |
| 1:33.9 | Ukraine. Do we know how much of that pledge material has actually got through to Ukrainian |
| 1:40.1 | military hands? Well, actually, quite a lot. I mean, first, there are sort of the military |
| 1:45.7 | aid that is delivered in arms, and that works quite well. So the supply lines from Europe into |
| 1:52.7 | Ukraine are open. The Russians try to interdict, but that doesn't happen. And then, of course, |
| 1:58.6 | there is, in terms of money, provided to the Ukrainian |
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