The MP, the journalist and the businessman-turned-Molotov maker
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Almost six days on from Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Christopher Hope is joined by those on the ground for a bonus episode of Chopper's Politics.
From Kyiv, Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun sets out what she feels her country needs when it comes to help from the West, and fresh from Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv, the Telegraph's own Roland Oliphant tells Chris why he thinks trouble may be ahead for Russia.
Plus Peter Thomson, a Ukrainian resident originally from Scotland, tells us how the invasion has seen him swap running his agricultural business for making Molotov cocktails using the petrol from his lawnmower.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Shopist Politics. |
| 0:05.0 | My daughter and I spent an hour to this morning making Molotov cocktails from the petrol that's usually used for the lawnmower. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor, and this is Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, it's been just five days since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine |
| 0:27.5 | launching attacks by air, sea and land and in that time Russia has been strangled by sanctions and the world has watched |
| 0:36.8 | on as Ukrainians from all backgrounds are themselves and brace against war. |
| 0:46.0 | Later we'll be hearing from a British businessman battling with the idea of joining the civilian defense of his adopted country and our |
| 0:51.7 | correspondent in Kharkiv is watching the crisis all unfold. |
| 0:55.2 | He'll be here with an update. |
| 0:57.2 | But first, last week we put out an episode looking at how Britain should react to Russian aggression in Ukraine and as |
| 1:06.0 | we do every week we tweeted about it and we got a reply from our Ukrainian MP. |
| 1:13.0 | That's right, Ina Sovson, the deputy leader of one of the opposition parties |
| 1:16.6 | in the Ukrainian parliament, |
| 1:18.0 | tweeted simply, we need help. |
| 1:21.9 | Well, we couldn't ignore that appeal so we gave Inra a ring. |
| 1:25.0 | Ina Sofson welcome to chopper's politics. Now you're in Kyiv and you in the dark. |
| 1:31.8 | Why is that? Well because we are currently under air raid |
| 1:36.7 | strike alert it's been put off as of now so I can speak to you but we've been going in and out of the basement for the whole evening right now |
| 1:46.7 | This is our new reality so we are trying to turn up lights when the attacks are starting so that the houses are not visible in the dark. |
| 1:55.0 | And of course we're talking to you around 10-20 at night time so normally you'd have lights on but |
| 2:00.8 | this is the new reality you have here of fearing attacks from |
| 2:04.8 | Russian jets from Russian jets from Russian missiles from Russian ill-infutrators |
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