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World Service,23 Feb 2026,49 mins

Zelensky says Putin has started WW3 and must be stopped

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Speaking to the BBC, the Ukrainian leader was confident that a thirty year American security guarantee as part of an eventual peace settlement could be be trusted. Violence has broken out across Mexico, after El Mencho -- the leader of one of the country's most feared drug cartels -- was killed in an army operation. The United Nations says that more that two-hundred-thousand people have been forced out of their homes as violence continues to threaten civilian lives in South Sudan’s Jonglei stat. (Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a statement before the Ewald von Kleist Award ceremony at the 62nd Munich Security Conference; Credit: Ronald Vittek/EPA/Shutterstock)

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