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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.

This week we're going to concentrate inevitably on the huge breakthrough by Ukrainian forces near Kharkiv

and the recapture of more than 8,000 square

kilometres of territory since the start of September. But what does all this mean? Is this the

beginning of the end for Russia's brutal occupation of southern Ukraine, the Dombas and the East,

or even Crimea, or is it a significant but not necessarily game-changing realignment of the

front lines before winter puts an end of the fighting on the battlefield and makes it more likely

that Ukraine's less staunch allies, feeding the pinch from high energy prices, might start

demanding a negotiated settlement.

Who better to try to answer these questions than General Lord Danett, the former head of the

British Army, who has been keeping a close eye on events in the Ukraine?

Was there anything the West could have done differently to prevent the war in the Ukraine,

do you think? Did, for example,

NATO and the EU miss an opportunity to forge closer links to Moscow at the end of the Cold War?

Well, there's no doubt in my mind that had NATO and the West agreed that Ukraine could become a NATO member, then the collective responsibility, the collective

defence arrangements provided by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty would have deterred

Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine in the first place. But for, I think, understandable and very good

reasons, NATO hesitated about allowing Ukraine to join.

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