The Weekend Intelligence: A nation on a knife's edge
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, return to Kyiv to to find out if cracks are beginning to emerge in the iron shield of Ukrainian unity and to ask how the war with Russia is reshaping a nation living on a knife’s edge.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all so busy. |
| 0:02.1 | Buzzing about, like bumblebees, |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:05.9 | So this is Leviv Station at about 10 o'clock in the evening on March 24th. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm sitting against a pillar. |
| 1:13.6 | The seats are all completely taken. |
| 1:16.6 | If you're a regular listener to the intelligence, |
| 1:20.6 | you'll have heard our editor-in-chief interviewing world leaders, |
| 1:24.6 | CEOs, even representatives of Hamas. But it's not often that she gets to report |
| 1:33.2 | from the field. There is a very distinctive smell, the smell that Arkardi calls the smell of war. |
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