Dec 2021

23m 20s

Is Russia on the brink of war with Ukrai...

Financial Times

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Gideon talks to Kadri Liik, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about Russia’s military build-up on the Ukraine border and about how policymakers in Nato and the EU are responding.

Clips: Nato News; VOA; BBC

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