Hello there, listeners, Vitaly Pashenko here. You've probably heard me on the podcast before

talking about life as a student in Kyiv. And before you dive into today's episode, I just wanted to

let you know that I'll be on a special edition of this podcast, marking three years since the

full-scale invasion began. Some other friends of the podcast will be joining me. If you have any

questions for us or about the war in general,

please send us an email or a WhatsApp message.

You can find the contact details in the episode description on the website.

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Hello, it's 1884 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And we've had this question from a Ukraine cast listener. Hello, Ukraine cast. This is Claudia from London.

I was wondering what are the rumors that you hear with regard to Trump and Ukraine. Is it going to announce something soon? Thank you very much.

While Claudia, have a listen to President Trump speaking to Fox News on Monday.

We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars and, you know, they may make a deal,

they may not make a deal, they may be Russian someday or they may not be Russian someday,

but we're going to have all this money

in there and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent like $500 billion

worth of rare earth. And they've essentially agreed to do that. Whoa, Vitale. That's a lot to

unpick. It is and it's definitely not going to go down particularly well in Ukraine,

being told that, well, you may be Russian someday, but I want my money back.

Does that mean Russia might win this war?

Well, I think it means two things.

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