Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Hello, Ian.

Good evening, Simon.

Talk about last minute there.

Yes, apologies for the slight confusion.

My Wi-Fi decided to throw me out.

So I'm on alternative arrangements, and hopefully they will last.

So welcome to this evening show.

Indeed.

What our viewers won't know is the last minute Scrabble panic.

Just as we were in the countdown to go live

Ian dropped off the call so so we we press ahead we carry on because we've got serious matters

to discuss this evening and we have a highly esteemed guest from from Portsmouth University

in the NS we have we have Dr. Paul Flenley, the senior

lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in

Russian politics and foreign policies. So we've got him on the show to talk about the situation

in Ukraine. Yeah, and welcome, Paul, and our usual listeners know that we talk about the situation in Ukraine. Yeah, and welcome Paul and our usual listeners know that we tend to take a reasonably lighthearted and irreverent look at most things political.

So obviously with this subject being as serious as it is, our usual tone might be a little bit more focus. But thank you, Paul,

for joining us on, you must be a busy man at the moment. Pleasure, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

Nice to join you. Lots to discuss. Lots to talk about. Indeed.

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