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US envoy to EU ‘convinced’ Ukraine will win ‘with the weapons we’re providing’

By France24
08 February 2023   |   10:49 am
Talking Europe hosts Mark Gitenstein, the US ambassador to the EU and a close confidant of President Joe Biden since the 1970s. Gitenstein took up his position in Brussels a year ago, and it proved to be a baptism of fire, with the war in Ukraine starting just a few weeks into his job.

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