Olga Malchevska
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
For Ukraine it's a huge blow, a huge diplomatic blow, because Ukraine feels left out. And seeing not just normalisation between the USA and Russia, but what is perceived as normalisation on steroids, can't but hurt Ukrainian feelings.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
The best pointer was from Marco Rubio's US State Secretary's Presser when he said that this is not even pre-negotiations to discuss any potential peace deal. It's just the starting point to launch some sort of a dialogue between the sides and Ukraine.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Both Europe, the EU, as potential guarantor of any peace deal, and Ukraine as a party to this war, which interestingly Marco Rubio kept calling conflict only. So there was a slight shift in vocabulary, if you want. So I think that would not be interpreted or looked at kindly by Ukrainian side either, because they see...
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Es gibt einige Zeichen, dass die amerikanische Position auf die Entschädigung der Sanktionen schwingt. Und dafür braucht die USA Europa, weil, interessanterweise, auch in Lavrovs Lingo, Europa ist der Feind, Europa ist eine Anti-Russische Kraft, auch wenn es eine europäische Krieg ist. Und es wird eventually auf Europa gehen, würde es nicht sein?
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Er ist zurück in Kiew, wo er morgen das erste Face-to-Face-Meeting mit Keith Kellogg, dem neuen US-Repräsentanten, auf der Ukraine hat. Und hoffentlich bringt er für ihn, für die Ukraine, die Botschaft. Und er versucht auch, sich zu korralieren. Europe at large.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
In Turkey he sort of raised the possibility of Ankara, official Ankara and Turkey and Erdogan being involved, because Erdogan really liked hearing that, playing the regional leader that he is. Und auch das Vereinigte Königreich. Er hat gesagt, dass Europa als solches nicht nur die Europäische Union ist, sondern auch das Vereinigte Königreich, es ist auch Türkei.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Also breitet er diese Unterstützung für die Ukraine, hoffend, dass, wenn die USA vom Prozess der Unterstützung der Ukraine in der Zukunft weggehen, er jemanden zurückhalten wird.
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Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
It's not life anymore. It's like being in hell. I've been in this house for 65 years. My children grew up here. My grandchildren. It's been a long time. It must be very hard to leave. You know, in the beginning it seemed possible. We thought we'll sit it out. But already the ground is shaking. And it seems to be that it's dangerous to stay here.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
So I'm here at Senpankro station and we can hear this beautiful music which is performed by Ukrainian refugees. Now we can see now the beautiful Ukrainian choir is replacing the music and they will sing some Ukrainian songs for us and we will have a special guest, Sivan Fry, who came kindly to support here today these beautiful events.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
And why do you think it is important for you to come here and support the events?
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
I know you went to Ukraine, and what was one thing which impressed you the most, or maybe surprised?
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
And yet, as you were saying, humour is so important for Ukrainians that they once even elected a president who used to be an actor, working as a comedian before, the most popular comedian in the country, right? And I just wanted to jump on that as well and just to ask you, well, you have here in Britain all generations who are united in the love to you and your art.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
You have people who remember you about your masterpiece... A bit of lorry and fry, right? And you also have people who are watching you on TikTok today, younger generation. And what would be your message to all the Ukrainians? A very short one, and then we'll jump into the choir.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Thank you so much. And now we are... Well, let's listen to the beautiful Ukrainian choir who will sing Silent Night for us, which is the silent night in Ukrainian, and it is called Sveta Lich. Let's listen to them.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
I think it's really interesting about generally how Putin is playing Trump at the moment. Because I just keep, when I look at the reports and what we are seeing right now, I just keep thinking about some of the biographies of Putin that mentioned that he worked with assets in Western Germany when he was president. Part of the Russian intelligence community there.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And you can just, you know, he knows how to work with businessmen and Trump is, after all, a businessman. But I found the comparison with Alexander Lukashenko really fascinating because it's purely, it's not scientific, but purely anecdotally, I can remember some cases of Alexander Lukashenko actually being more critical of Russia than als Trump jahrelang war.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Denn ein paar Jahre ago hat er Russland literally verurteilt, dass sie Menschen, die sie auf der Grenze mit Belarus verhaftet haben, verurteilt haben, aber auch gesagt hat, dass sie Russland nicht erlauben wird, uns zu verurteilen, weil das sonst Krieg bedeutet. Das ist fast eine hartere Rhetorik, als was wir von Trump so weit gehört haben.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And I think it's really important to get the language right here. Because when we're talking about the supposed maltreatment of Russian speakers or threat of NATO to Russia, these are not rude causes of the conflict. These are excuses, as Vitaly rightly put it, that Russia used to invade. And in reality, you know, when it comes to maltreatment of Russia,
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
supposed maltreatment of russian speakers you know that whole narrative that russia was pushing that was baseless it was accompanied by massive years long propaganda effort from russian state media with multiple examples of completely fabricated evidence of maltreatment of russian speakers in ukraine and the most famous story was the crucified boys in slymansk in 2014 and they just simply never happened
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
I'm just dying to start talking about Kirch. Go for it. Because it's such a verified story. Ukraine has twice successfully attacked the Kirch Bridge.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Well, it's still there, but causing damage, as in partially successful. Good correction. So there have been two attacks, one using a truck that exploded, another one using sea drones. And we know from satellite imagery, if you look from space onto the area around the bridge, you can see that Russians have now built protections there.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
like floating protections against the sea drones, but also there are literally air defenses on the bridge protecting it. But also it's important to know that after the repeated attacks, partially successful, by Ukraine, that there's evidence that Russians have been, for logistical purposes, have been using ground routes through occupied territory rather than the main Kremlin bridge.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And I'm Olga Robinson, a Russia expert at BBC Verify.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
And that means that it kind of diminishes the importance of it for Ukrainians as a target.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Not an expert on the Ukrainian Church, but on the Russian Orthodox Church. I think what you need to understand about it is that it's effectively in its current state an extension of the Russian state. So they're fully on board with the invasion and support it. In fact, the Russian Orthodox Church literally has a daily compulsory prayer
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
for the victory of the Russian soldiers against their enemies and those very, very few priests who have refused to say it, they have been ousted or have faced sanctions. So we're not looking at the Russian Orthodox Church as a peacemaking force.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
Yeah, but it's more of an exception. I think conscripts in Ukraine have been more of an exception. But I just wanted to weigh in as somebody who was born and raised in Russia. You just get used to conscription. It's just like part of your life. It's something that happens all the time. In fact, when I...
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
When my son was born three years ago, I remember my friend called me and said, well, congratulations on having a child. And I bet you're very happy that now that you live in the UK, you don't have to worry whether you will actually have to hide him from the army when he's 18. So it's absolutely like a regular thing that does happen.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
But it's the current draft that's been kind of the largest in years. It's kind of... Part of the wider drive and focus on the kind of military activities and the army.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
I think when it comes to North Koreans, if you just look at verified footage that we've been getting from the course creation in the past weeks, we haven't really seen much evidence of them being actually present on the ground. And I think they used to be a bigger factor, like particularly last autumn when they were just brought in. And we just kept seeing footage and suggestions.
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The Ukraine War: Your Questions Answered
There was a lot of talk about them. It's just like it feels like it has diminished significantly. The talk and the visual evidence of them being present on the ground. But also, yeah, according to some of the latest assessments from the UK Defence Ministry, they had 5,000 casualties of March and a third of them dead.