Will Trump's deal with Ukraine frighten Putin?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Trump has sent 50 million dollars of military aid to Ukraine - the first shipment of aid since he took power. The money started flowing after Ukraine signed that much discussed minerals deal: in it, America recognised Russia's “full scale invasion of Ukraine". So has the minerals deal finally made peace possible? Or is it little more than a shakedown of the Ukrainians?
Later, the Labour MP who says he wouldn’t be disappointed if more UK universities closed. Do we have too many universities? And are some Labour figures now starting to parrot the language and talking points of Reform?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | What were you and Zelensky talking about when you were nose to nose in the Vatican? |
| 0:17.7 | I was telling him that it's a very good thing. |
| 0:21.3 | If we can produce a deal that you sign it, because Russia is much bigger and much stronger. |
| 0:28.6 | Russia is just chugging forward. |
| 0:31.8 | It's a big, strong country. |
| 0:34.9 | They loan the money. |
| 0:36.0 | They're losing 5,000 young soldiers every single week, on |
| 0:42.6 | average. Russian and Ukrainian. They're not American, but they're human beings. And it's so, it's so |
| 0:49.0 | sad to see it. Remember that minerals deal. The deal that Zelensky and Trump were supposed to sign in the White House in the Oval Office on that day when it all exploded between them. |
| 1:02.0 | When we now know that a minerals deal, in fact, a better minerals deal from Ukraine's point of view has been signed between Ukraine and the United States. |
| 1:12.3 | A major moment in the history of the Trump administration, which has been so hostile to Zelensky and Ukraine itself. |
| 1:19.8 | And I guess the question we're really asking now is behind the Ukraine Minerals deal, is there a pathway to peace? In other words, is this Trump's way |
| 1:31.7 | of creating a peace plan through something that feels more like trade? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:42.4 | The Newsagents. It's Emily. |
| 1:44.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:45.3 | And this is an important day. |
| 1:46.7 | It's a big day in the history of the Trump administration. |
| 1:48.6 | There's still new Trump administration and its relationship with Ukraine. |
| 1:53.3 | We now know there is a nine-page deal which has been signed between the Ukrainian economy minister and Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, |
| 2:03.1 | it's not yet clear how it will work, but what is clear, the deal itself, the text of the deal, |
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