Shadow defence secretary speaks out ahead of Ukraine talks

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Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said it is "incredibly important" that Ukraine is at the heart of any negotiations held regarding the Ukraine war.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well as I understand there will be subsequent meetings which will include

00:03President Zelensky, that's incredibly important. For me right from the beginning

00:07it's been an absolute priority that Ukraine is at the heart of any

00:10negotiations and we can't have an outcome where Putin is in any way seen to gain

00:15but I hope today there is progress and certainly you know all of us want to see peace.

00:19I think the key thing is that it's difficult to try and speculate what might happen

00:23we'll obviously hear hopefully later. We've had a number of these sorts of meetings

00:27and let's be honest the war has continued so it's a big question mark over to what extent we can

00:32we can trust the noises that we get from Putin certainly especially

00:36remembering he is the aggressor in this after all. So I wouldn't want to speculate

00:40but I think it's really important that the key principle in all of this

00:43is that we get a lasting peace if we get peace and that peace must be one where Ukraine feels secure.

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