The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What future for Ukraine? Your questions answered. Global News Podcast teams up with Ukrainecast for a special Q&A, in a week that has seen US military aid halted. Can Trump and Zelensky get back to talks on a peace deal?
Jackie Leonard will be joined by Ukrainecast's Vitaly Shevchenko, the BBC's Ukraine Correspondent James Waterhouse and Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet.
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is a special collaborative edition of the Global News podcast |
| 0:05.2 | with our colleagues from Ukrainecast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Jackie Leonard, and in the studio we have Ukrainecast presenter Vitali Shvchenko and our chief |
| 0:14.7 | international correspondent Lee's Doucette, and in Kiev we have James Waterhouse. |
| 0:19.2 | We are recording this edition at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 7th of March. |
| 0:24.7 | That's 1,108 days since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:30.5 | Events are moving very fast and we'll be putting your questions to our experts |
| 0:34.5 | and trying to unpick some of the issues that have come to the four in the |
| 0:38.2 | last week. Now, we want to get through as many questions as possible, so let's begin with |
| 0:46.3 | Denise. Hi, my name is Denise and I'm from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm exploring worst case |
| 0:51.7 | scenarios and my question and concern is what happens if U.S. stop supporting Ukraine and eventually they will have no choice but to surrender to Russia. |
| 1:00.8 | Now, for the last three years of war, America has been Ukraine's largest donor. The decision to freeze military aid follows that very public disagreement in the Oval Office between Volodymya Zelensky, |
| 1:11.8 | Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. James, if we begin with you, what if the US never |
| 1:18.1 | restarts its military support? Would a Ukraine surrender be the most likely outcome? |
| 1:22.9 | Well, I mean, what any Ukrainian will tell you on a Kiev street is that they would never surrender. |
| 1:28.1 | I mean, the idea of sticking it downing weapons and allowing Russia to occupy, take over the country, |
| 1:34.2 | install a puppet regime, is, and as always has been, a non-starter. |
| 1:38.5 | I think when you speak to those in military circles, it is accepted that Ukraine could probably fight on for months, |
| 1:47.1 | maybe a little bit longer. But that is the reality, such as the quality and quantity of what |
| 1:53.3 | America does provide. Now, it is true. European allies as a whole have donated more military |
| 2:00.4 | aid collectively than America. But when we're talking |
| 2:03.2 | about American intelligence, its quality, have the broad scope of it. We're talking about |
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