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Olga Ivshina: BBC Russia Correspondent on the meeting between Putin and Trump · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Confirmation from the Kremlin overnight that a meeting between Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Persian will take place as early as next week.
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  Speaker 1: Time is running out for a six five I deal.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Trump's threatening oil sanctions on Russia by tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Question is will he now wait for the potential meeting? Olga?
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  Speaker 1: If Shina is the BBC Russia correspondent, Olga, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the program. What do you think will happen?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's you know, that's a good question. If I knew,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I would be somewhere else or working somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the truth is, the things are developing really fast.
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  Speaker 2: But the latest from Trump administration it seems that now
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  Speaker 2: they say that in order for Putting a Trump to meet,
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  Speaker 2: Putting must meet Zelenski. But then earlier today, when Putting
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  Speaker 2: was challenged by reporters if he's ready to meet Zlensky,
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  Speaker 2: he said certain conditions must be fulfilled, and they are
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  Speaker 2: not fulfilled yet, which basically signals that Moscow is not
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  Speaker 2: ready to meet Dansky, which puts the subsequent meeting with
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  Speaker 2: Trump into question. But I doubt that Trump will hit
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  Speaker 2: with tariffs on Friday, bearing in mind the meeting is
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  Speaker 2: so close and possible and his PR so called PR victory,
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  Speaker 2: his possible PR achievement is so close. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he's going to risk it by introducing tariffs on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But does that not just show that person is again
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  Speaker 1: stringing Trump alone.
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  Speaker 2: It seems that up to now Moscow has been quite
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  Speaker 2: successful in dragging on in postponing negotiations and in a way, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: playing with Trump's administration on its terms. And we have
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  Speaker 2: seen that Putin has achieved, not too much, but he
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  Speaker 2: has achieved something. Meanwhile, First of all, he managed to
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  Speaker 2: push most of the Ukrainian forces out of the coast
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  Speaker 2: region of Russia after the Ukrainian centersion in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: He managed to capture a few more little villages in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, he seems to have initiative on the FUNCT,
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  Speaker 2: not as much as he wants, but he definitely has
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  Speaker 2: achieved something in this last five six months. While he
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  Speaker 2: tries to pretend he's still open for the peace deal
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  Speaker 2: with Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: What's going to stop potent? I mean, he's obviously not
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  Speaker 1: scared of more sanctions. He's obviously not scared of Trump
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  Speaker 1: moving as nuclear as subs around.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a good question. I mean, definitely, Russian economy
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  Speaker 2: is not performing marvelously. I mean it it does avoids anxious,
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  Speaker 2: it does evade anxious quite successfully on some fronts. But
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  Speaker 2: on the other front, we see that it's dependence on
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  Speaker 2: the trade with China, it dependence on military equipment from
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  Speaker 2: from North Korea is raising, and there's something which is
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  Speaker 2: mister put not happy about. And of course if Trump
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  Speaker 2: hits with tariffs, it Trumps manages to cut Russian oil
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  Speaker 2: supplies to the global salt, that might hit Russia quite hard.
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  Speaker 2: So definitely mister Puttin will try to avoid that either
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  Speaker 2: we diplomacy all with chess games on the on the
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  Speaker 2: global chess board, but definitely he won't stop, and he
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  Speaker 2: definitely wants to achieve some guarantees of how he sees it,
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  Speaker 2: European security and Russian security how he sees it, which
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  Speaker 2: means promise of NATO, not not not including Ukraine and
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  Speaker 2: basically not not not enlarging to the east.
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  Speaker 1: Oh goat, appreciate your insights as always. O'llgative. China the baby,
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  Speaker 1: says Russia correspondent. For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge,
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