All eyes have been on Gaza since October, but what has been happening in the confrontation between Ukraine and Russia - the biggest European land war since 1945? Has the West lost hope of defeating Vladimir Putin here, and is President Zelenskyy being persuaded to turn a stalemate into some sort of truce? Ukrainian doctoral research scholar and security specialist Igor Shchebetun at Sumy State University, tells Phil and Roger his country is deliberately being starved of weapons to make such a settlement inevitable - containing Russian ambitions but not defeating them
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[00:00:00] The Y-curve with Phil Dobby and Roger Hearing
[00:00:04] Remember Ukraine?
[00:00:05] The biggest land war in Europe since 1945?
[00:00:08] The conflict that defined the power rivalry of the 21st century?
[00:00:12] Tens of thousands dead?
[00:00:14] And billions spent on the latest weaponry to hold back Vladimir Putin?
[00:00:17] Our attention turned to the Gaza fighting.
[00:00:20] But where have things got to in Ukraine?
[00:00:23] There are mentions of stalemate.
[00:00:24] Suggestions that the US, facing multiple and Britain who've been really backing Ukraine are feeling their resources are not necessarily achieving what they want achievable. Well, the price is so high. This is the thing, I was talking to a Ukrainian friend a couple of days ago who lives here and he says he's lost eight friends in the last few months because everybody has signed up. So many people, you know, not just ordinary soldiers, but people who signed up altogether to go and fight and many of the course are dying and you're taking out a great tranche
[00:03:00] of huge talent really because of the fighting goes on.
[00:03:04] Yeah.
[00:03:05] Just how far would you go?
[00:03:06] How much would you fight for your country?
[00:03:07] I wonder. Would he go to Finland for example? I mean, I've read pieces saying, well, maybe that's going to be next, because it gives what Crimea gave him. It gives him a freshwater port. Yeah, I mean, it's very different in the sense that he... A sea-dressed water, ice-free port, I should say. Not a freshwater port. Where he can...
[00:04:20] So he's got more free trade over the rest of the world.
[00:04:23] But he's very different.
[00:04:24] So one of the things with Crimea armory and resources even to save these territories that we have for now for this day. Right. So because so because of that are things going backwards then is Ukraine losing some of the
[00:05:41] territory that it's perhaps gained?
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