Can President Zelensky sell his ‘victory plan’ to the Americans?
The Ukrainian President is on a diplomatic mission in the US
President Zelensky’s in the US for a diplomatic mission to try and sell President Biden his ‘victory plan’. But what’s in it? And can he persuade the Americans to back it?
Two friends of the pod, defence expert Matthew Savill and Russia expert Angela Stent, join Lyse to assess how it might go down with the President, and the two candidates hoping to succeed him, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Today’s episode is presented by Lyse Doucet.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming and Julie Ball. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Richard Fenton-Smith.
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