Russia's war on Ukraine: European reaction and analysis

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This episode focuses entirely on Russia's war on Ukraine. We have reporting from inside Ukraine, news of the European response and analysis of the global repercussions. POLITICO's Andrew Gray hears from colleagues David M. Herszenhorn in Ukraine, Matthew Karnitschnig in Berlin and Lili Bayer in Brussels in a conversation broadcast live on Twitter hours after Vladimir Putin launched his massive military attack. POLITICO editor Zoya Sheftalovich joins the podcast to share stories she's hearing from friends and family in Ukraine. Zoya also describes what it was like to handle the news that Putin had declared war on the country in which she spent her childhood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.1	These are among the darkest hour for Europe since the end of World War II, a major nuclear power
1:23.4	as a attack and neighbor country and is threatening reprisals of any other states that may come to its rescue.
1:32.6	Welcome to the EU Confidential Podcast. I'm Andrew Gray, politics editor at Political Europe in Brussels.
1:39.5	Thank you for joining us on the kind of day many of us had imagined or at least hoped we wouldn't
1:45.8	see in the 21st century. You just heard the EU's foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell, reacting
1:52.2	to the news that early on Thursday morning, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a massive military
1:57.8	attack on Ukraine.
1:59.6	This is not only the greatest violation of international law.
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