Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
Hosted by Mark Leonard · ECFR
4.6from 310 ratings
- 653
- Episodes
- 43
- Transcribed
- 310
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 325K
- YouTube views
About Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- ECFR
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
43 of 653 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ukraine’s winter of pressure
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Ukraine’s winter of pressure
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's not just energy or military infrastructure. It's a lot of civilian infrastructure as well, including shopping malls, warehouses, storage places, and so on. So whilst previously you asked me how the life in Kyu has changed, well, I think for four and a half years, Kyu and some of the other major cities have been shielded from many of these attacks because of its air defense. That's no longer the case. There is simply not enough missiles interceptors. that would cover the area that Ukraine needs. And the jet-powered drones, which Russia is using almost on a daily basis, are also becoming increasingly problematic, which means that this winter, a lot of people are thinking and considering whether they should stay in areas such as Kyiv or move out before the winter strikes, because it might be a very difficult winter ahead. […]
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- Jana Kobzova
- Cary Fowler
- Jim O’Brien
- Jana Puglierin
- Ellie Geranmayeh
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- YouTube views
- 324,858
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 108 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 202 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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