What are Putin's ceasefire terms?
Ukrainecast
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4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine rejects Putin’s ceasefire proposal ahead of Swiss peace talks.
It’s been a busy week for President Zelensky. At the G7 meeting in Italy, world leaders agreed on a $50bn loan to help fund Ukraine’s war effort and a ten year bi-lateral security agreement was signed between the US and Ukraine. All this before President Zelensky heads to Switzerland for a Ukrainian Peace Summit. Meanwhile, President Putin has proposed his own ceasefire plan which Ukraine has rejected.
The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent James Landale and security correspondent Frank Gardner reflect on what has been agreed so far and what progress could be made this weekend.
Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko. It was produced by Clare Williamson with Bella Saltiel and Natasha Mayo. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 842 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and President |
| 0:11.0 | Putin has this morning set out his requirements for a ceasefire in Ukraine. |
| 0:17.0 | Now, Vitali, has he done this before? |
| 0:19.0 | No, he hasn't and these remarks are definitely designed to sound significant. |
| 0:25.7 | He said his troops in Ukraine will be prepared to cease fire if Ukraine withdraws its troops from Dagnets, Leuansk and all of Zapparizia and Herson regions, including the |
| 0:39.2 | parts that Russia currently does not control. Another condition is that Ukraine officially promises not to even try to join NATO and also he wants all the numerous Western sanctions imposing Russia to be lifted. |
| 0:58.6 | Now these conditions are pretty far-fetched and I just can't see Ukraine or its Western |
| 1:06.5 | allies agreeing to them. The timing of this though Vertale is it because he's |
| 1:11.4 | rattled perhaps by all these high-profile appearances of |
| 1:14.4 | President Zolensky this week and of course this much heralded peace summit |
| 1:17.6 | we're seeing this weekend in Switzerland? Yes the timing is interesting and we know that Russia has been trying to upstage and |
| 1:26.6 | reduce the number of participants in that summit in Switzerland really really hard |
| 1:32.2 | so I'm pretty sure that in Switzerland really, really hard. |
| 1:32.8 | So I'm pretty sure that what Vladimir Putin said |
| 1:36.5 | was said with that summit in mind as well as other things. |
| 1:40.5 | That's what we're talking about today. |
| 1:42.2 | Summits, diplomacy, and whether all this |
| 1:44.6 | talking will bring us any closer to an end to the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:49.0 | This is Ukraine Cast. |
| 1:51.4 | Ukraine Cast from Vibis. |
| 1:54.0 | Evil cannot be trusted. |
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