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Oct 2024
43m 3s

Zelensky announces "Victory Plan" for Uk...

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Key elements include a formal invitation to join NATO, the lifting by allies of bans on long-range strikes with Western-supplied weapons deep into Russia, a refusal to trade Ukraine’s territories and sovereignty, and the continuation of the incursion into Russia's western Kursk region.

Also on the programme: we hear from a doctor in Nabatieh, one of the towns in southern Lebanon which has been under attack by Israel; and we meet one of the scientists who has helped to discover how to grow replacement human skin in a laboratory, a discovery which has the potential to help victims of serious burns.

(Picture: President Zelkensky addresses the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv. Credit: Ukrainian President's Office)

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