Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Russia accuses Ukraine of launching a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences.
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Chapter 2: What warning did President Trump give to Hamas regarding disarmament?
After Donald Trump met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, the mood was cautiously optimistic. Mr. Zelensky said the U.S. had offered Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years. And Mr. Trump said an agreement on this point was close to 95 percent done. But on Monday, a new stumbling block emerged.
Russia accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences, a claim which Kiev has denied. It's accusing the Kremlin of trying to derail peace talks. Steve Rosenberg, our Russia editor in Moscow, told us more.
The official line coming out of Moscow is this attack really happened. That's what Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump on the phone earlier today.
Chapter 3: What accusations did Russia make against Ukraine concerning a drone attack?
That is what Russian television told its viewers. This story playing very big in the main evening news bulletin here in Russia. However, no images were shown on TV of any aftermath of the attack or any debris. The Russians haven't presented any evidence so far to back up the claim. And, of course, we heard that categorical denial from Kiev that this had happened.
I think there's one thing that we can say with certainty, and that is that Moscow is using this moment to try to get Ukraine into a lot of trouble with Donald Trump. Portraying Ukraine as a terrorist state ā that's the language the Kremlin is using ā
And I think clearly trying to drive a wedge once and for all between Washington and Kiev, whether that's going to be successful, we'll have to wait and see.
Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. Well, next year should see the start of a high profile trial in Germany, which has big implications for its relations with Ukraine. Prosecutors are expected to bring charges against a Ukrainian former military officer who's accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022. At the time, it was a major route for Russian gas to Germany.
But the prosecutor's pursuit of justice is controversial. When a second suspect was detained in Poland on a German arrest warrant... The Polish judge refused to extradite him, arguing that Russia's war on Ukraine had made the pipeline a legitimate target. Neither of the suspects nor any officials in Kyiv have admitted to involvement in the deep-sea sabotage.
Our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford has been following the case throughout the year. This autumn, TV crews crushed into a Warsaw courthouse to capture the moment when a Ukrainian man was led past in handcuffs for an extradition hearing. I shouted a question, but he kept his head lowered and walked on in silence.
Vladimir Zhuravlov was accused of attacking the Nord Stream pipelines from Russia. Before the invasion of Ukraine, Germany got almost half of all its gas through Nord Stream. But in September 2022, it was blown up in Europe's biggest act of sabotage in decades. For a while, Russia itself was the prime suspect.
Vladimir Putin had been threatening to cut off the energy flow to Europe, trying to force governments to stop supporting Kiev. But the evidence soon began to point towards Ukraine. Three years on, German prosecutors tracked Vladimir Zhuravlov to Warsaw, and they issued an arrest warrant. His wife, Yuliana, told me what happened next.
It was morning. We all were at home. Police came and it was six person, I think, started to talk with husband and they say that they need to take him. It really was a shock.
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