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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome to another episode of Battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, as the full-scale war in the Ukraine enters its second year, the main news from the battlefield

this week is the growing possibility that the struggle for control of the town of Bakhmut

may be reaching a conclusion, with a growing likelihood that Ukrainian forces may be forced to

withdraw or surrender. Now, said against that, we're getting the first hints of when and where

Ukraine will launch its much-anticipated spring offensive. And on the diplomatic front, rather

surprisingly, perhaps, President Zelensky

has given a cautious welcome to China's recently issued peace proposal. We've also got some news about

our podcast. From next week, we're going to be moving from one to two episodes a week.

The first episode on Wednesday will be an in-depth interview followed by our

usual discussion about what we learned from it. And this will be followed by a second episode

in the usual Friday slot that covers the latest news and listeners questions. Well, we want to come in

with a bang with this new format. So we're opening with a wide-ranging

interview with Simon Seabag Montefiore, who over the years has proved himself a brilliant

interpreter of Russian history and culture, and his work's been applauded everywhere.

He even has a big fan in the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin is on record as having liked Simon's book on Catherine the Great

and Prince Pottenkin. Anyway, it runs for about 45 minutes and it's packed with fascinating

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