On 24th February Russian troops invaded Ukraine … Since the war began more than two million people have fled Kiev, over half its population; those that stayed have been asked to fight. Dispatches: Ukraine: On the Front Line with Johnny Mercer, Channel 4 2022
On February 25th Russia assaulted Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city. Trying to force its people to surrender. They refused. This is the story of the 12-week blitz, of the people in the eye of the storm. And those who risked everything to protect them. Dispatches: Ukraine: Life Under Attack, Channel 4 2022
The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. Jeffrey Sachs, ‘Ukraine is the Latest NeoCon Disaster’, 27th June 2022
This summer as the Ukraine surges towards independence the people have been re-burying the dead of crimes committed over fifty years ago. Secret History s1e2: Unquiet Graves, Channel 4 1991
On 24th February 2022 Vladimir Putin rocked the foundations of European security. This is the story of the year that followed. Putin vs The West: At War s2e1: Invasion, BBC 2024
Putin’s invasion exposes cracks in the global order. And as the Russian president digs in, the resolve of Ukraine and its allies is tested like never before.
British and American Intelligence reported there were up to 150,000 Russian troops massing on the border with Ukraine. ibid.
The assumption that Ukraine would be overwhelmed by Putin’s forces was fast proving wrong. ibid.
What we were confronting was an awful evil. Putin vs The West: At War s2e2: Doubling Down
On 24th February 2022 launched an invasion that shook the world … The impact of the war is felt across the globe. And as Putin tries to build his own allies, Western support for Ukraine starts to fray. ibid.
Putin has this idea that it’s [Ukraine] really where Russia was born, and it’s an integral part of Russia. Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War VII: The End of History, Mary Sarotte
This is the story of a comedian who played the president, and then became the real president of Ukraine. The Zelensky Story I, comments, BBC 2024
He played the kind of character Ukraine dreamed about. ibid.
Vladimir Putin watched the fall of the Berlin Wall with horror. ibid.
Viktor Yanukovych – he is the Ukrainian that Vladimir Putin wishes to have in power. ibid.
Yanokovych became president of Ukraine in 2010. ibid.
He made Ukraine a laughing stock. He looted the state, and made his dentist son a billionaire. And he jailed his main opponents. ibid.
February 2014: Crimea, southern Ukraine: There were not Ukrainian troops. ibid.
Zelensky was an actor but he was telling us something true about the society in which we live. ibid.
He became even more popular because of Servant of the People. ibid.