The story behind 2022's secret Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Russia-Ukraine war has lasted over two years. But just weeks after Russia's 2022 invasion, both sides came close to a settlement that could have ended the war and saved thousands of lives. What happened?
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:35.0 | This is on point. I'm Meghachra Bardi. On February 24th, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in the largest attack on a European country since the Second World War. |
| 0:47.0 | But what isn't well known is that just days after the war began, |
| 0:52.0 | Ukrainian and Russian representatives met to negotiate |
| 0:55.8 | a peace deal. |
| 0:57.6 | Here's Vladimir Madinsky, Russia's lead negotiator, talking to the press on March 3rd, 2022. |
| 1:04.0 | The Turkish |
| 1:05.0 | the Ukraine-Sstrand, who we padrobin |
| 1:09.0 | the three block |
| 1:11.0 | was the |
| 1:12.0 | negotiations with the Ukrainian side have just ended during which we discussed all three blocks of issues, |
| 1:17.3 | military issues and humanitarian issues and the issue of the future political resolution of the conflict, Madinsky said. |
| 1:25.3 | He went on, quote, positions are absolutely clear. |
| 1:29.2 | They are written down one item after another. |
| 1:31.6 | We've managed to come to an understanding on some of them, but the key |
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