2025-09-18
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It's 1,303 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
And this week, Donald Trump has been here in the UK on an unprecedented second state visit,
as Prime Minister Sakir Stammer royally ramped up the charm in his attempts to win round the US president with just a little help from King Charles.
In two world wars, we fought together to defeat the forces of tyranny.
Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe,
we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine to deter aggression and secure peace.
Observers in Kiev will be hoping that all the pomp and ceremony goes some way towards softening Mr Trump's resolve to only introduce new sanctions against Moscow once Europe stops buying Russian oil.
In a prime time interview on British television on Sky News Volodymyr Zelensky insisted the US should be strong enough to go it alone on sanctions.
Retrick that was echoed by a growing number of Republican senators who were reportedly becoming tired of American in action.
And with events in Guards,
we're expected to dominate the agenda at the UN General Assembly Anger in New York next week.
The Ukrainian president will hope the UK and others can keep Ukraine on the mind of key decision makers in Washington.
Well, as always,
our team are here to answer all of your questions on where we stand after a week of soft power diplomacy.
That's coming up on Ukrainecast.
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Life is not safe in Ukraine, nowhere in Ukraine.
We've had three years of bloody conflict now.
We need to get to that lasting peace.