Zelensky announces "Victory Plan" for Ukraine
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Key elements include a formal invitation to join NATO, the lifting by allies of bans on long-range strikes with Western-supplied weapons deep into Russia, a refusal to trade Ukraine’s territories and sovereignty, and the continuation of the incursion into Russia's western Kursk region.
Also on the programme: we hear from a doctor in Nabatieh, one of the towns in southern Lebanon which has been under attack by Israel; and we meet one of the scientists who has helped to discover how to grow replacement human skin in a laboratory, a discovery which has the potential to help victims of serious burns.
(Picture: President Zelkensky addresses the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv. Credit: Ukrainian President's Office)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to live from London. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:10.0 | Coming up later, a scientific breakthrough which could lead to new treatment for burns and skin diseases, |
| 0:15.0 | arrayed wrinkles and defeat hair loss. But first, members of the NATO military alliance |
| 0:20.7 | will this week debate what Ukraine's President |
| 0:22.8 | Elegsky calls a victory plan addressing the country's parliament he said |
| 0:26.7 | the objective was to force Russia to negotiate in good faith. |
| 0:29.9 | The approach of Ukraine of NATO, |
| 0:32.3 | more just this fundamental An invitation for Ukraine to Ukraine to join NATO could become truly fundamental for peace. |
| 0:40.0 | We understand that NATO membership is a matter for the future, not the present, but Putin must |
| 0:46.4 | see that his geopolitical calculations have failed. |
| 0:50.2 | I thank all our partners who support the idea that inviting Ukraine to NATO now with |
| 0:56.1 | membership later strengthens everyone. |
| 0:59.4 | Well after Mr. Zolensky's address the new Secretary General of NATO, the former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rota, |
| 1:06.1 | said the organisation was fully behind Ukrainians. |
| 1:09.2 | NATO stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine now and into the future. We are working and with urgency |
| 1:17.6 | to deliver a new NATO command to coordinate security assistance and training for Ukraine. |
| 1:25.0 | More support to build Ukraine's future forces. |
| 1:29.2 | A financial pledge of at least 40 billion euros of military aid within a year and initiatives to support Ukraine |
| 1:38.8 | on its irreversible path to NATO membership. On the streets of the capital, Kyiv, these people were broadly supportive of the plan, but also weary of the war. |
| 1:49.0 | I think the people want to enter the war just as soon as possible. |
| 1:55.0 | Many victims from our country has been died and now we don't know for what we are struggling. |
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