Three Wishes for 2023: Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
For the start of 2023, Sky News Daily podcast host Niall Paterson is asking people from across politics, entertainment, and sport how they would use three wishes to change the world, their country, and their lives.
On this episode, Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik tells Niall about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and her hopes for a braver world. Plus, we find out more about what drew her into politics in the first place.
You can hear more stories from Ukraine on our Ukraine War Diaries podcast.
Producers: David Chipakupaku and Alys Bowen
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Paul Stanworth and Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | If I could give you three wishes, what would they be? Everlasting life, perhaps, never-ending happiness, |
| 0:11.1 | or maybe just enough money to forget the cost of living. I ask you this because, for the next few |
| 0:16.3 | episodes, well, we're doing things a little differently here on the daily. To start 2023, we've gathered a few names you might recognise from across sport, politics and entertainment |
| 0:26.5 | who each have different dreams for their future. |
| 0:30.0 | I want to find out how they'd use their three wishes to change the world, their country and their own lives. |
| 0:36.1 | And most crucially, why? |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 0:46.7 | I wish that one day I can wake up and know that none of us is afraid of the air raid sirens, that we can go outside |
| 1:00.1 | with our families, not being afraid that it could be a last day for us. I wish that our goal |
| 1:08.5 | is rebuilding our country and not figuring out how to stay alive for another day. |
| 1:15.4 | A year ago, many of us weren't particularly familiar with the names of towns and cities across Ukraine. |
| 1:21.6 | Carson, Butcha and Denepro, while they weren't in most of our vocabularies, |
| 1:25.8 | and we all spelled Kiev very differently. |
| 1:29.0 | But in February, after months of concern at Russia's behaviour on its neighbour's border, |
| 1:34.2 | Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine, almost a year later, |
| 1:39.1 | and we're all living with the consequences of his war. |
| 1:42.6 | Since then, Ukrainian MP Kira Rud, has been representing not just her constituents, |
| 1:47.6 | but her country on the world stage. |
| 1:50.1 | She's the head of the Golos political party. |
| 1:52.7 | She's the vice president of the European Transnational Group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats |
| 1:57.3 | for Europe, and now regularly appears on British news to talk about just how much |
| 2:02.5 | of a strain Putin's war is having on her people. In this episode, she tells us her hopes and her fears |
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