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Speaker 1: Kevin grays our men in the UK Poland scrambling as

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Speaker 1: air force because of these massive Russian attacks on Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: That's just as winter's coming, right s given, we'll just.

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Speaker 2: Try and sort of force Ukraine into a miserable winter,

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Speaker 2: and of course it does get bitterly cold there if

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Speaker 2: they knock out all these power plants. Now, we've just

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Speaker 2: heard in the last few minutes that the death toll

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Speaker 2: of those overnight strikes missile and drone attacks from Russia

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Speaker 2: killed ten people, has just gone up from seven and

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Speaker 2: there are of course others in hospital. And indeed it

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Speaker 2: was the largest coordinated assault since early September. One hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty missiles and ninety drones were launched. So what

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Speaker 2: is the response from Europe. Well, Poland, Ukraine's neighbor on

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Speaker 2: the western side, scrambled fighter jets to patron its own airspace.

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Speaker 2: And that is because some of these drones, some of

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Speaker 2: the missiles will go into the westernmost part of Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: in other words, very near to Poland and also Hungry,

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Speaker 2: which neighbors both Ukraine and Poland, also on a lord

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Speaker 2: with drone attacks just twenty kilometers from the border, and

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Speaker 2: the country's Defense minister. They're saying the situation is being

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Speaker 2: monitored continuously.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two and a half he is under this war.

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Speaker 1: What's the vibe because obviously Trump's come in he says

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Speaker 1: I'm going to end at You had Zelenski at the

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Speaker 1: weekend saying if anyone can end it, you know, Trump

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Speaker 1: has a bit of chance of ending it. Given as ritric.

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Speaker 1: Then perhaps Biden did this talk of a DMZ zone

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Speaker 1: between the countries of Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO

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Speaker 1: for twenty years. What's the vibe? Is it likely?

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Speaker 2: I think here in Europe the concern is Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: will simply turned the tap off, either completely or largely

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Speaker 2: on aid to Ukraine, financial aid and military aid. And

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Speaker 2: then the big question is will Europe step up to

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Speaker 2: the plate and fill the void. They said they will,

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Speaker 2: but well, plenty of you're skeptical about that. And indeed

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Speaker 2: the German Chancellor, the leader of Germany, on our Schultz,

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Speaker 2: he put a call in to Vladimir Putin. They spoke

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Speaker 2: for over an hour. It was the first time they

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Speaker 2: were spoken directly for nearly two years, and it infuriated

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Speaker 2: many in Europe who believed that the opportunity for diplomacy

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Speaker 2: has gone. There should be no appeasement and indeed they

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Speaker 2: should step up the support of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Interesting Givin thank you for that. Givin Gray are UK

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Speaker 1: europe correspondents.

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