49. Dmytro Gurin - The view from Ukraine

Today, I spoke with Dmytro Gurin, who is a currently serving Member of Parliament in Ukraine. Dmytro is originally from Mariupol, the besieged city in South-eastern Ukraine that is capturing global headlines, where he has spent his childhood and where he went to university. In the past, Dmytro has also spent more than a decade living in Moscow and is very familiar with Russian political and media machinations. 

He joins me today, just after midday on Sunday, 13^th of March, Eastern European Time, to discuss the evolving Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some of the topics we covered are:

• Current situation in Ukraine
• Change of Russian tactics to target civilians
• General Russian orientation towards Ukraine
• The reality faced by Russian troops
• Life in the besieged city of Mariupol
• Western predicament and possible ways forward
• What Ukraine needs from the West
• Possible scenarios inside Russia
• Difference between Ukrainian and Russian armies
• The state of the Ukrainian nation