Will France derail Trump's Nato weapons plan? | BBC Ukrainecast

After the US threatened to slap secondary tariffs on nations dealing in Russian oil and gas within fifty days, how is the Kremlin reacting? Could France derail Donald Trump’s plan to sell Ukraine weapons via Nato allies? And what’s behind President Zelensky’s most significant wartime reshuffle?

Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko answer all that and explain why Ukraine is unlikely to consider an operation against North Korea, with Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse and BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson.

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