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Mar 2022
22m 58s

Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Russia’s invasion hasn’t delivered Moscow a quick decisive victory, but it is taking a terrible toll on Ukraine. How realistic is Kyiv’s insistence that this is a war they’ll ultimately win?

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