Your Questions Answered: Putin, Witkoff and ceasefire plans
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What’s to stop Russia from escalating the conflict? Who is Steve Witkoff? Can Trump stop Ukraine from joining Nato?
These are some of the questions you’ve been sending in - and today, Lyse, Vitaly and Matthew Savill from the Royal United Services Institute think tank, joined presenter Christian Fraser to answer them on the BBC News channel.
The producers were Ben Carter and Ryan Johnston. The series producer is Tim Walklate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Ukrainecasters. Thank you very much for listening to this latest episode of our podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | You've probably noticed we've been doing a lot more episodes recently and we'll keep trying to do them, of course, as and when a big story breaks. |
| 0:13.5 | We really appreciate you listening. We really appreciate you getting in touch. |
| 0:17.4 | And we are here for as long as it takes. Thank you so much. |
| 0:22.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. It's 1, 115 days since Russia began its full-scale |
| 0:31.1 | invasion of Ukraine. It's been another busy week and you've been sending us a lot of questions. |
| 0:36.9 | So today, me, Vitaly Shepchenko, |
| 0:39.5 | Lee Doucette and Matthew Saville, director of military sciences at Russey, teamed up with Christian |
| 0:44.9 | Fraser on the BBC News channel to answer some of those questions. This is Ukraine cast. |
| 0:51.7 | Ukraine cast from BBC News. Evil cannot be trusted. |
| 0:56.0 | Ask Pregojin. |
| 0:57.0 | You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster. |
| 1:02.0 | Is there a need for a serious opponent? |
| 1:05.0 | Why? |
| 1:06.0 | I will prevent World War III. |
| 1:08.0 | It's not just about Ukraine, it's about the whole future of Europe. |
| 1:11.7 | I don't understand what this war is for. |
| 1:16.4 | Welcome to you all. We've got a question here, Lee, from Sue Parsonson. She says President Trump |
| 1:21.7 | wants to be this Nobel peacemaker, yet he's surrounded himself with a cast of friends with |
| 1:26.7 | absolutely no experience |
| 1:28.1 | or qualifications to be skilled and effective negotiators in a peace deal of such huge importance. |
| 1:34.3 | Why does he think that's a good idea when so much is at stake? |
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