Panel discussion with Fred Weir of major current issues in the Ukraine war
Once again, Iran’s Press TV has hosted a wide-ranging and penetrating discussion of the Ukraine war on its Spotlight program last night.
It was my pleasure to join on the show Fred Weir, a Canadian journalist based in Moscow for more than thirty years. Fred has served a variety of newspapers around the globe. He is probably best known as the correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
This show opened with an evaluation of the newly announced latest G7 package of military aid to Ukraine. The moderator proceeded to walk us through other topical issues including whether the sides to the conflict are experiencing shortages of weapons and munitions, whether there presently are grounds for holding negotiations to end the conflict, Merkel’s recent statement that the Minsk agreements were just a cover to give the Ukrainians time to recover from their military defeats of 2014-2015 and the reported death and casualty figures on both Ukrainian and Russian sides till now.
Spotlight - G7 military aid for Ukraine .