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Diplomatic correspondent. so wherever you are in the world, welcome, this is ukrainecast and the global news podcast. time to try and answer some of the many questions sent in. given the shock of it all, quite a lot of people still want to know why. let's begin with anthony torres in new york. what are the motivations behind putin's invasion of ukraine - and how is he trying to rewrite the past in order tojustify- violence in the present and, thus, control the future? i hi, i'm bart, and i'm writing in from leeds, uk, and the question i have is why did president putin decide to invade ukraine ...

See any movements of significant extra troops from inside russia towards ukraine's borders. now, i am speculating here, but what does that tell us? perhaps it tells us that the russians are preparing to sue for peace and are prepared to accept something substantially less than what they were asking for a couple of weeks ago, which was kind of getting all the nato military out of the east european countries and that kind of thing. the big question, as you alluded to, vitaly, is will the ukrainians accept this? will they accept giving away sovereignty of crimea, the separatist regions? will they...

Will putin be judged as a war criminal in the international court? could vladimir putin end up. being charged with war crimes and wanted by international arrest warrant for crimes i against humanity? let's go to you, james. i think it's highly- likely that at some point the international criminalj court will charge vladimir putin with something. i think it is very, very- doubtful he will ever end up ina court. the problem with this i is that the international criminal court has. a very, very high bar. you know, you've got to prove a war crime is taking place. i you've got to prove the intent ....

And also, ukrainians have seen now what the russian army can do to their cities. there's very little love lost now. i mean, the reality is that all wars, all conflicts, end in some sort of negotiated solution, right? so that eventually is going to happen. and it was really interesting looking on monday, that dmitry peskov, putin's spokesman, came out with a with a list of demands for peace that were actually a lot less than what putin was demanding a couple of weeks ago, before this whole thing started. i noticed one other really interesting thing that happened last night, that the pentagon an...

Into a room and say, "vladimir vladimirovich, "thank you for your 22 years of service, "your car is waiting" or something... ..some variation on the palace coup. and that's how you know that a lot of preparation had gone into this, because he has made sure there's no potential challenger, there is no potential force that could unseat him. he's... he's a towering presence. but there was a moment where i thought, all of those people around him, the sort of three legs of putin's stool of power — the oligarchs, the technocrats, the strongmen, the siloviki — many of them will be thinking, "i di...