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The Sunday Debate: Should the West Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine?

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As the war in Ukraine reaches its one year anniversary, there is still no clear end in sight. And while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipates Russia’s spring offensive, he’s been clear in asking the West for one thing - fighter jets. On this episode of the podcast defence expert Rajan Menon and policy expert Anatol Lieven discuss how crucial jets could be for Ukraine’s defence, what the western countries’ national interest is in giving them, and whether support for Ukraine in this war could wane as time goes on. Our host for this episode is The Sunday Times Special Correspondent, Josh Glancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm producer Catherine Hughes. Today on the Sunday

1:54.3

debate we're asking, should the West and fighter jets to Ukraine? As the war in Ukraine reaches

1:59.5

its one-year anniversary, there is still no clear end in sight. And while Ukrainian President

2:04.8

Vladimir Zelensky anticipates Russia's spring offensive, he's been clear in asking the West for one

2:09.8

thing, fighter jets. On this episode of the podcast, Defence expert Rajin Menon and policy

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