Zelensky: US offered Ukraine 15-year security guarantee
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky says the US has offered security guarantees for fifteen years although he wished it could be longer. Also; China conducts large-scale military exercises around Taiwan; India’s Supreme Court puts on hold an order that suspended the life sentence of a former member of the governing BJP party for raping a teenager; Israel's announcement that it will formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region, Somaliland, is condemned by regional blocs and neighbouring countries; a crackdown on bird poaching in China and Cristiano Ronaldo says he won't stop playing football until he has scored one-thousand goals.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.3 | Hi, I'm Ankara Desai, and on Monday the 29th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:15.6 | The president of Ukraine, Volodymy Zelensky, says the United States has offered security guarantees against Russia |
| 0:21.3 | lasting 15 years, but he would like them to last a lot longer. |
| 0:26.1 | elsewhere, Taiwan has put its forces on high alert after China began a lifefire rehearsal |
| 0:30.9 | of a blockade of the island. And after these protests in India last week, India's Supreme Court stops the suspension of the life sentence given to a former regional BJP legislator for raping a 17-year-old girl. |
| 0:49.6 | Also coming up in this podcast, we hear from the man who disarmed a gunman on Bondi Beach in Sydney after 15 people died when two men opened fire at a Hanukkah gathering at the famous beach location in mid-December. |
| 1:03.5 | And football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is still enjoying playing, he says, and he won't stop until he scored a thousand career goals. |
| 1:20.3 | We begin with our top story and the ongoing efforts to find a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. The U.S. says an agreement is getting a lot closer. Moscow says negotiations are at a |
| 1:26.5 | final stage. And Ukraine's present, Zelensky, |
| 1:29.3 | described recent meetings with Donald Trump as great. So a lot of optimism then, but it doesn't seem |
| 1:35.4 | to have reached the streets of Kiev just yet. That's according to these Ukrainians. |
| 1:43.6 | Unfortunately, the talks won't have an effect. |
| 1:46.2 | They're good for the people to understand what's going on, but I don't think the war will end soon. |
| 1:51.0 | And yet, we have to wait for the deal to be reached. |
| 1:53.7 | Even after a deal, Russia could attack Ukraine. |
| 1:59.2 | Trump is an unpredictable person. He changes his mind as the wind blows, but we have very high hopes, |
| 2:06.2 | because we want the war to end. My husband has been fighting for four years, and I want peace and victory. |
| 2:13.9 | So just what are the sticking points? Well, speaking a few hours ago, President Zelensky |
| 2:18.5 | said the main unresolved issues in the 20-point peace plan were control over Ukraine's eastern |
| 2:24.7 | Donbass region and the Russian occupied Zafarizia nuclear power plants. He says he wants any plan |
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