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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the face of President Putin鈥檚 Russia, insists that his country didn鈥檛 invade Ukraine in a rare interview with the 麻豆约拍. Victoria and Vitaly unpick the interview with Patricia Lewis, Director of the International Security Programme at Chatham House.
She also tells us about the significance of Ukraine getting a step closer to European Union membership. Is this purely symbolic?
And we hear from Joy, the fianc茅e of a US former marine, reported missing in Ukraine.
Today鈥檚 episode was produced by Alix Pickles, Osman Iqbal and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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