Ukraine

YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8LglBIPwSM

Day 1,076.

Today, as Britain’s Prime Minister prepares to hold defence and security talks with EU leaders for the first time since Brexit, we report from the front line near Pokrovsk in the Donbas and, later, interview a West Point Professor who says negotiating with Moscow is a doomed enterprise.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on X.

Inna Varenytsia (Ukrainian Journalist). @InnaVarenytsia on X.

Francis Dearnley (Associate Editor, Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

With special thanks to our guest Dr. Robert Pearson (Associate Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point). @RTPerson3

Content Referenced:

Battle Lines, our sister podcast, exploring wider global affairs:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/trump-edition-americas-ai-war-with-china-what-his/id1712903296?i=1000687394662

Why Ukraine Shouldn’t Negotiate with Putin (Dr Robert Person in Journal of Democracy):

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/why-ukraine-shouldnt-negotiate-with-putin/

UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine press release:

https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/Alarming-Rise-in-Executions-of-Captured-Ukrainian-Military-Personnel