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Podcast: Ukrainecast
Episode: Putin and Xi talk partnership and peace proposals
Description: Russia claims a Chinese plan for peace could be the basis for an end to hostilities. China expert, Isabel Hilton, and Arkady Ostrovsky, The Economist’s Russia editor, discuss China’s emerging role in the war, and what this might mean for Ukraine and the West. As President Putin visits occupied Mariupol, we talk to Odesa MP Oleksiy Goncharenko about how he felt seeing the Russian leader on Ukrainian soil.And Arkady talks through his podcast, Next Year in Moscow.Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko.
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