The new US defence secretary has delivered an uncompromising message to Ukraine three years after Russia's full-scale invasion began, saying Nato membership is unrealistic. We get a response from Ukraine's former prime minister. Also on the programme: A BBC investigation has uncovered allegations that the energy giant Shell ignored repeated warnings that a one-billion-dollar clean-up operation of polluted land in southern Nigeria has been beset by problems and corruption and why a Dublin city councillor is campaigning for the removal of key lockboxes. (Photo: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group on the eve of a Nato defence ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 12 February, 2025. Credit: Johanna Geron/Reuters)
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I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin today in Ukraine
and these questions Will President Trump manage to get both Ukraine
and Russia around the negotiating table?
And what will it take to end the war?
War Almost exactly three years after Russia's full scale invasion,
the White House has set a deadline of 100 days for a deal.
And today, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper,
President Zelensky said he would be willing to offer Russia an exchange of territory,
giving up land that Ukraine has occupied in Russia's Kursk region