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Radio 4,19 Dec 2025,45 mins

EU agrees €90 billion loan for Ukraine

World at One

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European Union leaders have struck a deal to give Ukraine a €90bn loan after failing to agree on using frozen Russian assets valued at €210bn. At Vladimir Putin's end-of-year address, he says the West is "making Russia the enemy". Sir William Browder, the American investor who now campaigns against Putin, gives his reaction. Plus the new leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Archbishop-elect Richard Moth.

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