There is a huge risk of us simply handing to russia the er opportunity for an operational it will just strengthen puten's hand for more push against ukrane. I think this is why it's so important right now looking at the bottle for herson ar, what's happening in terms of the ucranian counter offensive to push back some of the russian lines. Because pretty sure that if puton had already got full control of oll danetz and lohans, having recognized all this in its administrative borders, and the herson oblest and the gon at tn of the whole region around the city of hersona few hundred thousand people who live in the
We welcome back Fiona Hill, the foreign affairs and national security expert, to discuss Putin, foreign policy, and what could lie ahead for the war in Ukraine. Hill has been an advisor to three US Presidents and is former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the United States National Security Council. She is author of books including Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and There is Nothing For You Here, which she joined us to discuss earlier in 2022. She returns to give us the latest on the ongoing war and assess what Vladimir Putin's next move might be, joined in conversation by Edward Lucas, the writer, author and European and transatlantic security specialist.
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