Zelensky: Ukraine needs a 'dignified peace'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will speak to Donald Trump in the coming days about the new peace deal put forward by the US. Mr Trump's plan includes significant concessions to be made by Kyiv. What is his strategy with this provocative proposal? Also: Schools have been closed in parts of Nigeria after a new wave of attacks and abductions. Spain's attorney general has been found guilty of leaking confidential information about the boyfriend of a leading politician. And the old VCR gathering dust in your basement could be worth good money at auction.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Keith Adams, and in the early hours of Friday, the 21st of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.5 | President Zelensky says he'll discuss the US proposed peace plan to end the |
| 0:23.1 | Ukraine war with President Trump in the coming days. A diplomatic row between the US and South Africa |
| 0:29.2 | has intensified ahead of the G20 summit this weekend. Schools have been closed in Nigeria's |
| 0:35.8 | western Quara state after an attack by gunman. |
| 0:42.5 | Also in this podcast, the official advice on vaccines changes in the US, but it's controversial. |
| 0:49.6 | To have this on a CDC website is actually pretty shocking. We're going to see a drop in vaccination |
| 0:54.4 | rates, which will cost lives. And Spain's Attorney General has been found guilty of leaking |
| 0:59.7 | confidential information. In the last edition of the podcast, we reported that Donald Trump had introduced a new 28-point plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:16.4 | The details of that plan have not been officially confirmed, but it's believed to call for significant concessions from Ukraine, including limits on the size of its military and the surrender of some territory to Moscow. |
| 1:28.8 | President Zelensky has now seen the proposal. |
| 1:31.6 | He said he'll speak to Donald Trump in the coming days. |
| 1:34.3 | But in his nightly address, he said that Ukraine's priorities had not changed. |
| 1:41.7 | Since the first days of the war, we have taken one extremely simple position. |
| 1:47.4 | Ukraine needs peace. |
| 1:49.4 | And the real peace, one that will not be broken by a third invasion, a dignified peace, |
| 1:55.7 | so that the conditions respect our independence, our sovereignty and the dignity of the Ukrainian people. |
| 2:02.5 | We must ensure these very conditions. |
| 2:06.7 | Russia occupies about 20% of Ukrainian territory, and President Zelensky has repeatedly ruled out |
| 2:12.9 | giving up any land as part of a deal. So what is the U.S US strategy here? That's a question I put to the BBC |
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