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Tanksgiving

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01/25/23

29m

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Is the West’s supply of tanks to Ukraine a game-changer?

Adam is joined by Ukrainecast’s Vitaly Shevchenko and BBC Europe editor Katya Adler to discuss whether the delivery of battle tanks from Washington and Berlin to Kyiv will make any kind of difference in the war against Russia.

And we perform a check-up on the health service with Chris Hopson, chief strategy officer for NHS England.

Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray, Daniel Wittenberg and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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