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Today in Focus

Should we believe Putin’s war talk?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How discussions over long-range missiles led to war threats from Vladimir Putin. Dan Sabbagh reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.0

Today, Ukraine has weapons capable of striking hundreds of kilometers inside Russia.

0:16.7

Will it be allowed to use them? From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular

0:29.4

change in the last hundred years and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster.

0:35.2

From electric cars to the Metiverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic

0:39.9

sequencing.

0:40.9

We're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today, but are also shaping the future.

0:47.0

The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford, Invest in progress, capital at risk. We're in the third year of the war in Ukraine in this moment where analysts are being really blunt.

1:08.0

Russia is winning.

1:10.0

The Russians used a combination of drones and cruise missiles,

1:13.0

one of them hitting a hydroelectric dam north of the capital Kieve.

1:17.0

This attack shows signs the Russian assaults are getting ever more sophisticated and more accurate.

1:23.2

Ukraine is desperate to change the game and it has an idea of how to do that.

1:29.0

Last month it invaded parts of Russia, the first time that it happened since the Second World War.

1:37.3

Now it's asking its allies in the West for permission to do something

1:42.0

that so far Washington and London have been dead against.

1:47.0

Something that would take the war to Russia in a way that it hasn't experienced before.

1:53.0

If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of NATO countries

1:59.1

in the war in Ukraine.

2:01.8

And this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict.

2:06.0

Something that comes with risks not just for Ukraine, for Europe and the wider world. It's just waiting on Joe Biden's answer. From the Guardian,

2:25.0

Guardian, I'm Michael Safi.

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