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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.

I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.

And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

This week, will Putin invade Ukraine?

Plus, is Brexit working?

And finally, what is the allure of a classified advert?

First up, for this week's cover story, Owen Matthews argues that if Putin is going to invade Ukraine, he will do so later rather than sooner.

He joins us now, along with Julius Strauss, who reports on the mood in Odessa

for this week's magazine. Julius, thank you very much for joining us on the edition. So you're

calling us now from Kiev, but you write in the magazine this week about Odessa, where you

were before. I'd like to start by asking, from speaking to people there in Odessa and now in

Kiev, do you get the sense that they consider invasion probable? Oh gosh, difficult question.

It depends who you talk to. I think most people consider invasion probable at some point.

Because they've seen Russia sort of turn up the temperature and then

turn it down and turn it up again and turn it down, they're not quite sure that this is the point.

They're not quite sure about when. So unlike Western analysts who all seem to think,

or the popular thing is that it's going to happen sometime in February,

Ukrainians are far less certain about that. And it depends who you talk to. And there's all kinds of

different reactions. Some people are totally fatalistic. There's a general sense of fear, but it's not

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