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🗓️ 17 June 2024

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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's top aide pronounced the peace conference this past weekend a success. It was derided just as quickly as ineffectual by the Kremlin. More than 90 nations attended the conference in the Swiss Alps. Nick Schifrin sat down with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to discuss the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0	A top aid to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky today called this weekend's Ukraine Peace
0:06.3	Conference a success.
0:08.4	It was derided just as definitively by the Kremlin as ineffective.
0:12.6	Russia was not invited.
0:14.2	More than 90 nations attended the summit in the Swiss Alps.
0:17.2	Nick Schifrin sat down yesterday with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,
0:22.2	who accompanied Vice President
0:23.6	Kamala Harris. Last night PBS News Weekend aired part one of that conversation.
0:28.6	Tonight part two begins on the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
0:32.4	Jake Sullivan thank you very much. begins on the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
0:33.0	Jake Sullivan, thank you very much.
0:35.0	Welcome to the news air.
0:36.0	Thanks for having me.
0:37.0	Does the agreement that you've made with Ukraine to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons
0:41.0	just over the border into Russia at Russian forces that are about
0:44.6	to attack into Ukraine. Does that extend beyond the Harkey region, including
0:49.2	into the Summa region where Russian forces have also been targeting Ukraine.
0:54.0	It extends to anywhere that Russian forces are coming across the border from the Russian
0:59.4	side to the Ukrainian side to try to take additional Ukrainian territory.
1:03.3	That's happened in Harkhev.
1:05.2	We've seen initial indications that Russia has made exploratory moves
1:11.5	across Insumi, and so it would apply there as well. This is not about geography,
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