231. Ukraine kills Russian general on the Kremlin's doorstep.

Battleground

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode Saul and Patrick digest the two major events of the past week: Donald Trump’s interview with Time magazine, with some highly revealing comments on the Russia/Ukraine war. And the extraordinary assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian nuclear, chemical and biological protection forces, by agents of the Ukrainian security service in Moscow. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.0	This week, two events dominated the news. Donald Trump's interview with Time magazine with some highly revealing
0:54.4	comments on the Russia-Ukraine war and the extraordinary assassination of Lieutenant General Igor
1:00.0	Kirillov, the head of the Russian nuclear chemical and biological protection forces, and his
1:05.5	assistant major Ilya Polikarpov, by agents of the Ukrainian Security Service, or SBAU, as it's known, in Moscow on
1:13.6	Tuesday.
1:14.8	Well, let's turn to the Trump interview first. This came on the back of his selection as the
1:20.2	Time magazine Person of the Year, as they now call it. It's a kind of strange award,
1:26.7	isn't it? It's had some curious, well, doesn't it? It's all. It's had some curious.
1:29.3	Well, not curious.
1:30.2	I suppose they were very significant in their day,
1:32.0	but people who came to a sticky end,
1:34.0	Pierre Lavalle,
1:34.8	the Prime Minister of France,
1:36.5	won it in 1931.
1:37.6	He ended up being executed for collaboration.
1:41.3	Adolf Hitler, unsurprisingly, I suppose, in 1938,
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