2025-10-03
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It's 1,317 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
And after another major Russian strike, it lasted 12 hours.
Last weekend, Vice President J.D.
Vance's revelation that the U.S. was considering a Ukrainian request for long-range Tomahawk missiles was interpreted by some as the latest sign of Washington's waning patience with Moscow.
But despite Kyiv's insistence that the ability to strike deep inside Russia could give the Kremlin more incentive to pursue a peace deal,
the conversation around Europe in recent weeks has been about a growing war,
not a conflict approaching its conclusion.
And ahead of this informal summit we saw this week in Copenhagen, the Danish Prime Minister,
Mette Frederiksen, was clear that Russian aggression is not only a problem for Ukraine.
I think we have to leave our national perspective talking about security in Europe and look at the pattern with the hybrid war going on and look at the war in Ukraine,
not as a war in a European country, Ukraine, but as a Russian attempt to threaten all of us.
So as NATO Allies continue to emphasise their long-term will to defend one another,
has the West exhausted its diplomatic efforts to talk Putin down?
As always, our team are here to answer all of your questions on this episode of Your Crankcast.
Ukraine costs from BBC News.
This is a sovereign nation under unprovoked attack.
We are ready to finish this war as quick as possible.
Russia is not preparing for peace.
We are an enemy of NATO.