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on the BBC World Service where we are asking how Russia is transforming occupied Eastern Ukraine.
The status of the self proclaimed Donetsk
and Luhansk people's republics is far less clear cut than it seems.
An independent reporting from there extremely difficult.
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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We'll be hearing some strong words from a senior Canadian politician
about Donald Trump's plans for tariffs in about 30 minutes,
but we're beginning
with the latest illustration of just how violently the relationship between the US
And Europe is currently being shaken up.
None more so than over the fate of Ukraine.
Since Friday's on camera bust up between President Zelenskyy and President Trump,
European leaders have been scrambling to assemble a coalition to shore up Ukraine,
to formulate some sort of alternative peace framework between Ukraine and Russia