Zelensky: US offered Ukraine 15-year security guarantee
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The Global Jigsaw looks at the world through the lens of its media. Find us wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hi, I'm Ankur Desai, and on Monday 29th December, these are our main stories. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, says the United States has offered security guarantees against Russia lasting 15 years, but he would like them to last a lot longer. Elsewhere, Taiwan has put its forces on high alert after China began a live-fire rehearsal of a blockade of the island. And after these protests in India last week... India's Supreme Court stops the suspension of the life sentence given to a former regional BJP legislator for raping a 17-year-old girl.
Also coming up in this podcast, we hear from the man who disarmed a gunman on Bondi Beach in Sydney after 15 people died when two men opened fire at a Hanukkah gathering at the famous beach location in mid-December. And football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is still enjoying playing, he says, and he won't stop until he's scored 1,000 career goals. We begin with our top story and the ongoing efforts to find a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. The US says an agreement is getting a lot closer. Moscow says negotiations are at a final stage. And Ukraine's President Zelensky described recent meetings with Donald Trump as great. So a lot of optimism then, but it doesn't seem to have reached the streets of Kiev just yet.
That's according to these Ukrainians. Unfortunately, the talks won't have an effect. They're good for the people to understand what's going on, but I don't think the war will end soon. And yet we have to wait for the deal to be reached. Even after a deal, Russia could attack Ukraine.
Trump is an unpredictable person. He changes his mind as the wind blows. But we have very high hopes because we want the war to end. My husband has been fighting for four years and I want peace and victory.
So just what are the sticking points? Well, speaking a few hours ago, President Zelensky said the main unresolved issues in the 20-point peace plan were control over Ukraine's eastern Donbass region and the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. He says he wants any plan to end the war with Russia to be signed by Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the United States. And he said it should be put to a referendum in Ukraine. Well, our correspondent in Kiev is Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasulov, and he told me more about President Zelensky's comments.
He has outlined some of the details of what has come out from the meeting with Donald Trump. President Zelensky says that the security guarantees have been 100% agreed, and they're pretty much ready. He says that the US offers those guarantees for 15 years, and Kiev wants them to be in place for much longer, for at least 30 years. And President Zelensky says that Ukraine has been at war for nearly 15 years. And if you look at the annexation of Crimea, which happened in 2014, that means Ukraine is effectively at war for 12 years. And therefore, Zelensky says that those security guarantees must be in place for a much longer period. And there are some other details that he mentioned about these guarantees.
So there will be a monitoring mechanism. And he mentioned that there will be presence of partners.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:07
2
What security guarantees did the US offer Ukraine?
7:07–7:56
3
How is Taiwan responding to China's military exercises?
7:56–9:07
4
What recent developments occurred in India's Supreme Court regarding a high-profile rape case?
9:07–18:05
5
What are the unresolved issues in the Ukraine-Russia peace talks?
18:05–19:02
6
What was the outcome of the meeting between Zelensky and Trump?
19:02–34:35
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