The Ukraine War: How Far Away Is A Peace Deal?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The past week has seen international diplomacy turned upside down as the US began talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. The decision to exclude Ukraine - and Europe - from these talks led to an emergency summit in which European countries sought to establish some influence over the process.
But with the US and Ukrainian presidents embroiled in a dispute that led to President Trump calling President Zelensky a “dictator”, is their relationship beyond repair? And will Ukraine have any say over the terms of a peace deal?
Newscast, Americast and Ukrainecast gathered in the studio for a special collaboration to unpack the enormous shift in international politics that’s unfolding.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, slightly different episode of Newscast for you. |
| 0:07.2 | We wanted to really meet the momentous moment that we've all been living through when it comes to Russia, America and Ukraine. |
| 0:14.0 | So we've brought together loads of our podcasts to try and work out what's going on. |
| 0:17.9 | So you'll now be hearing from me, from Alex Versaith, from Newscast, Mariana and Justin from Americast and Vitale from Ukrainecast is here too. |
| 0:25.8 | And we will just try and work out what on earth is going on on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:30.1 | Newscast from the BBC. I like landscape. I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:34.7 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda. |
| 0:38.4 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:40.7 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:42.6 | Soul hurt that a miracle with us happening. |
| 0:44.7 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 0:46.6 | Take me down to Downing Street. |
| 0:48.3 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 0:49.9 | Blimey. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. Hello, it's Alex in the studio. |
| 0:55.6 | And it's Justin in the studio. |
| 0:57.5 | And it's Mariana, also in the studio. |
| 0:59.6 | And it's Vitaly. I'm in the studio too. |
| 1:04.8 | Vitaly, I was very struck when you were recording the intro for Ukraine cast and you always do the tally of the number of days since the start of the conflict. |
| 1:08.5 | And it's 1093, which is almost exactly three |
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