What did the Nato summit achieve?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As the dust settles on the Nato summit in Washington, we decode the diplomatic agreements and ask how much help it offers Ukraine. Matthew Savill from the London-based defence think-tank RUSI breaks down what the commitments might mean for Ukraine on the battlefield, as well as the geopolitical implications of Joe Biden’s continuing stumbles.
Kyiv has now suffered its worst week this year with 33 killed and 125 injured following the devastating set of strikes across Ukraine, including on a children’s hospital in the capital. We hear one young mother’s search for her daughter, who she feared had been buried under the rubble.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming, Sanjana Idnani and Nathan Gower. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 870 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.6 | The NATO Summit in Washington is over and at a ceremony marking the signing of a security |
| 0:15.5 | agreement for Ukraine. |
| 0:17.4 | This is how US President Joe Biden introduced Ukraine's President Zellensky. |
| 0:22.0 | Russia will not prevail in this war. |
| 0:25.0 | Ukraine will prevail in this war, and we'll stand with them every single step of the way. |
| 0:30.0 | That's what the compact says loudly and clearly and now I want to hand it over to the |
| 0:36.8 | president of Ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination. |
| 0:42.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. |
| 0:44.0 | President Putin, he's going to beat President Putin. |
| 0:48.0 | President Lewinsky. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm so focused on beating Putin. |
| 0:52.0 | We've got to worry about it anyway |
| 0:54.8 | Mr President I'm better you are a hell-off better |
| 0:59.1 | Thank you. Thank you very much. |
| 1:06.0 | So for most of that introduction, |
| 1:08.0 | President Biden was reading an autocue. |
| 1:11.0 | That whole introduction to President Zelensky was scripted. |
| 1:15.9 | And then he called President Zelensky, President Putin, at a time when so many people were |
| 1:21.4 | watching President Biden's performance how well he's going to do ahead of the elections in November. |
| 1:29.0 | In terms of watching that, which I was watching on news night last night from home. President Selensky just |
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