Your Questions Answered: Trump, Putin and minerals
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Ukrainecast team answer listener questions on BBC Radio 5 Live
Today’s episode is presented by Lyse Doucet, James Waterhouse, Nick Eardley and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producer was Ryan Johnston. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The assistant editor is Ben Mundy. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast’s Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord
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| 0:00.0 | It's 10094 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion. |
| 0:10.0 | We've been overwhelmed and grateful by the volume of questions that you, our loyal listeners, |
| 0:16.4 | have been sending in to us over these past few weeks. |
| 0:20.1 | And today, Vitaly, James and I, join BBC Radio |
| 0:23.2 | 5 live presenter Nick Erdly to answer some of your questions. This is Ukrainecast. |
| 0:30.0 | Ukraine cast from BBC News. |
| 0:32.9 | Evil cannot be trusted. Ask Pregojin. |
| 0:36.3 | You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster. |
| 0:40.9 | Is there a need for a serious opponent? Why? |
| 0:44.0 | I will prevent World War III. |
| 0:46.9 | It's not just about Ukraine, it's about the whole future of Europe. |
| 0:50.2 | I don't understand what this war is for. |
| 0:55.0 | So many questions after the past few days, domestic questions, international questions. |
| 1:01.0 | And we wanted to take as many of yours as possible. |
| 1:04.1 | So you can still get in touch on 08085-90963 or Texas 8505. |
| 1:09.0 | But let's just jump straight in with Matthew in Suffolk who sent us this. |
| 1:13.4 | Hello Ukraine cast and 5 Live. |
| 1:15.5 | There is a lot of talk about NATO not being able to stand up to Russia without the USA. |
| 1:20.9 | However, the Ukrainian forces have been able to hold off the Russians for three years. |
| 1:26.2 | Surely Ukraine and the European forces overwhelmingly |
| 1:29.8 | dominate the Russian army. James and Kiev, why don't you take that one first? Well, there is no doubt |
| 1:36.1 | that Russia played its best hand militarily in those early weeks and months of the full-scale invasion, |
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