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that foreign minister says the west has effectively declared a war on russia by trying to destroy its economy. she wouldn't be a mom of eulu to day a real hybrid war. total war was declared on us. this term, which was used by nazi germany, is now used by many european politicians when they talk about what they want to do with the russian federation. and the goals are not hidden, they are declared publicly to destroy break annihilate, strangle the russian economy. and russia as a whole. russian selling has struck the international airport in ukraine, 2nd biggest city, how to keep these pictures from airport surveillance cameras show. the moment it was bombed medical clinics and humanitarian aid stations have also been hit. us president joe biden has visited american troops in eastern poland. the closest he's been to the conflict, he praised poland for taking in more than 2000000 refugees from neighboring ukraine

. is scheduled to visit a refugee center on saturday. emmons, who the rebels say they've hit several targets inside saudi arabia. thick cream of black smoke was seen rising above the city of jetta. on the red sea coast. i saw the state oil giant. aramco has several facilities. authorities, confirmed jetta and other areas were hit. several drones and missiles were fired from m and the u. s. is calling for strong the sanctions against north korea after it testified its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile. washington introduce a resolution to the un security council. i'm going to stop further provocation from, from young. that's off the north korea's leader said he's preparing for confrontation with the u. s for those over headlines and use continues hair on al jazeera after inside story. the latest news, as it breaks the russian hill met with fierce ukrainian resistance to punish her if

the risk is historical. with detailed coverage as the us and other countries imposed sanctions. almost all the russia has been offering all and other commodities to india and other and from around the world, a position need 87 vote. and for that they need members of your own political party to turn against them. a show of unity and support. western leaders announced new plans to punish russia for its war in ukraine, including sanctions and near military age for heave. nato will also send additional battle groups to eastern europe, but when it be enough to deter president vladimir putin, this is inside story. ah

hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully battle. the war in ukraine has now entered its 2nd month, the leaders of nato, the european union, and a group of 7 nations have met in brussels condemning russia's actions. and announcing more sanctions, the 30 nato ally said russia invasion of ukraine was the gravest threat to euro atlantic security in decades. their aim was to show solidarity to ukraine, but only up to a point. many have been willing to supply weapons, but the alliance has also made clear, it won't become directly involved us present. joe biden also committed more humanitarian assistance to ukraine. nato has never, never been more united than it is to day partners getting exactly the opposite. what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine, we brought that shame unity with our european, the european union,

and with the leading democracies of the g 7, while nato a great, more support for ukraine, it also announced it would deploy additional battalions to protect what it called it's eastern border. so we are, lee said, think nathan turns and the fence forwarder a long term, or with more troops or wither more air assets and more maritime capabilities. we have all of the increased our presence in the east, and today we decided on for new battle groups. and that the leaders agreed to task our mentor commanders to provide options of for a long term reset of our presence, our military posture in the eastern part of the lions on the across the whole alliance as anita and had got underway in brussels leaders had a call for more help from ukrainian president vladimir lansky, who addressed the gathering virtually. mr. hood more, but it wasn't necessarily the ukraine never wanted to fight. we just want to survive. we are entitled to live like other countries. i am not blaming little,

it's not your muscles that are ruining our country this morning. phosphorus bombs have been used, and adults and childrens have been killed. alliance can still save our country by giving us those weapons. we never thought natal can be afraid of russia. i am sure you understand russia will not stop in ukraine and will go further against the eastern members of nato, who the baltic states and poland. ukraine was just asking for one per cent of fear tags, either to give us or to sell them to us. but we haven't had any response. this is the worst that can happen during a war is more or less. take a look at what the west has done so far to support ukraine. the u. s. senate salads have delivered weapons and financial aid to ukraine, including anti aircraft systems, anti armor systems and drones. they've also shared intelligence. they've imposed sweeping economic sanctions against russia, and the u. s. has announced additional measures against more than $400.00 individuals and entities. billions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid have also been flowing in to assist people inside ukraine. washington says they'll provide

$1000000000.00 more in humanitarian assistance. but presidents zelinski repeated requests for a no fly zone over ukraine have pretty much been ignored. while it's now bring in our guests for today's inside story from odessa in ukraine, we are joined by hannah charlotte's. she is the director of security programs with ukranian prison. that's a ukrainian foreign policy and security think tank vladimir sought sneak of joins us from moscow. his, the director of the consultancy, russia, east, west center for strategic studies and analysis. and from washington, d. c, were joined by nigel gold davis. he's a senior fellow for russia and eurasia with international institute for strategic studies in a former u. k. ambassador to bellows. welcome to your thank you very much for being with us on inside story, mr. sneakers in moscow. let me cite with you if i can. western leaders have been touting unity in response to russia, announcing new military aids, ukraine,

and new sanctions against moscow. will this be enough to deter, present fatima put it well actually i think that sir, the result softly. sir. 3 are very important for western leaders meetings and in brussel supp. ah, according to the opinion or for western way to show the unusual unity against against russia. but ah, my point is that even the growing up, paul, for all the other rapids rapids increase, increasing also the a native forcing ah, on the borders of 4 arms on the western borders with russia and near side ukraine. and the very much harsh economic sanctions will only a speed up the are hard, the we'll offer russian present was in repulsion. and he already announced that his

expect that the solution to pay in rouble. so for all the guest supplies in 2 european countries to actually to europe and community countries, europe and you didn't cut the saw. i think that i eventually, i think that the, at the end of the day it might be looking like a, like a loose position. then i'll talk about that when position, because actually russia will fly in the, at my opinion, or some are, some are symmetric measures like, ah, suggesting, bang rubles interesting anisha let's a, your thoughts are, are ukrainian leaders. how are they viewing this sir? additional support from the west? does it go far enough? first of all, i would like to clarify that sounds really old when we are seeing that additional back move that nature is going to settle in the vacuum when we're mainly at you've jumped on the rushing waters considering is that you use 1005 kilometers from

romania to the nearest washing territory. so that is definitely the huge as the duration of that something was would you or would you money relate with a lot of in the future. but at the same time, we are speaking about how the brain reacted to the yesterday. the fisher, 1st of all, for us, definitely being important that the unit you can change it within the countries both in the or in the natal. we understand that the nature 1st was trying to protect their territory. that's why the battle moved off 1st was to protect and to defend the nate, a member states, but feel that it was very nice to hearing the statement, the joint statement. i need to be safe. those are both the not only what me to can not do, but what me to do. we know what need to cancel for ukraine, including all talks about additional ammunition. we're in to town and into style. that is additional support in terms of cybersecurity, biological, security,

chemical weapons, security. that is new threats that allow founding from moscow. and that is doc, one of the additional commitments in charge of the security and how many terry and a for ukraine. we understand that the biggest part of the agreements were not publish and they were not. and now, and that is really for us because of that is very sensitive information. i would like to be say, we would not tell the 5 new sound because the phone is for the for example, are immediately becoming indeed we did not hear the details about what additional weapons were going to be supplied to mister nigel, gold davis. in washington d. c, western leaders are clearly faced with a delicate balance between influencing the course of the conflict in ukraine and avoiding dangerous escal and beyond it. at the show of western unity that we saw in brussels on a thursday, a very strong symbol, no doubt. but how practical is it in terms of security, both defense and energy security?

yeah, and you're right to mention the energy dimension as well. because let's remember that the, the meeting sort of taking place this week, not only of nato, but the, you and the g 72. and this indeed is a, i would say, unprecedented display of collective weston unity. and i put this into context who's really the 3rd time since the 2nd world war that we've seen a russian or during the cold war. it was so if you are over region of threat to europe, invoking a collector western response. the 1st time to like $940.00 is the seconds like 19 seventies. and the 3rd most from static is today. but yes, of course, there are dilemmas are always and balances be struck in the way, but this is done and i think it's important for the west down so. so one of the main purpose is that these meetings to demonstrate, continue to resolve. and the western unity won't diminish or weaken. no,

there are expectations or on the russian side took the western position, was pressure to soften as it has in the past. and that is really that actually, how hard will it be to maintain this unity if that conflicts becomes more brutal? we're already starting to see some cracks within the european union with countries that want more sanctions imposed against russia. and those like germany who thinks that the sanctions have gone far enough how long and, and you know, how long can they maintain this unity? yes. what if sir, the next sanctions measures that could be taken up quickly against russian energy are the hard ones and the more costly ones and i think the west is doing the right things and preparing the ground. so one of the most interesting announcements, sir, yesterday, was that, that germany would, in effect when itself, off dependence on russian gas by 2024 is painful and difficult to do. but they are

preparing the way for a post russian energy future. and are already, we've seen this on, on other aspects of this whole issue of germany moving in ways that no one really predicted. i would say it's less a matter of cracks at this moment and more a matter of the unequal speed of progress. but again, overall, i think it's been a very impressive display of unity and continues. what i think is been a highly effective diplomatic campaign. going really back to last october on the part of the united states. mrs. sought me call your thoughts about this is the war weakening president putting position in russia as the west hope seat is stuff all i would like her to actually on route taken into notice the remark by on, on the other side, i didn't mean actually the, the the russian border, so just a writer, the other western congress, like all, i'm actually anyway,

ultimately this is the western western western bottles of russia. it's not like that's russia actually isn't ukrainian territory and they say it is claiming that this is a russian church and stuff like that. a. secondly, i would like to have my remark on the nigel. so nigel show remarks, actually i think that the jobs are fat a g. it's a rather difficult her immediately or just even by the year to, for 2024 to so to substitute the russian supplies. because it seems to me that even though i will show up that light on the light, that actually is sad that so there will be an and i sent all saw that all system or foss concluding the contract. sir, it's rather rigid system actually, barbara, which is functioning already and it's difficult to understand how it will will

function in the future. and how successful wilbert and sir 2 and a half for the adequate volume supplies from carter norway from any other country which would like to supply the alan g as regard, sir. so to say quickly repeat your question or 2. again, my question was about whether the war in ukraine was ok, a weakening the president getting position in russia because ultimately this is what the west is looking for. ok, i probably, i might as well disappoint you, but it's a very unusual that the, the support of a russian president section and russia in russia, it's more than 70 percent. so you can imagine that because nobody actually an agent they so fig us. well, a month ago the special operation started. so i don't think that this special operation, even the economic hardship. so we shaw looming, ah, not existing, but looming. are in the prospective for time will allusion to my, my inter, ah,

a rapidly or not rapidly will losing the position all will a weakening the position of president to 200 your response to that your thoughts about what to have. let me just said that he think say he says at that to present putting some position within russia is only actually getting stronger as a result of this operation. yes, definitely. we also have this information and so it can be easily supported not only by the social logical surveys, but the actual situation. how many of the russians of worked at the war against ukraine and plenty of the international journal we've been trying to get youth youth on the streets and different cities around russia asking about of these weren't russian aggression. and we've really been shocked by the positive attitude . people didn't feel anything now that you've about being of archival mary. what. and that's really c r just because previously in the west talking with a lot of diplomats, i heard for many years that are kill us. just wait,

mr. would you would step down or retired and jason would change and the russians the duration. we also wanted to be the same optimistic, but now seeing the strong support of the military actions, no, just the policy inside of the country. it's really shocking, and there is no the same cold that just the retirement of russian presidents can actually change the attitude of the russian federation against all other on neighbors of this country. when let's take a closer look now at the situation on the ground a month on from the russian invasion of ukraine. the areas in red are held by russian forces and their separate his allies. their military advance has largely sold ukrainian forces in besieged mary paul are holding out, and ukraine says it's successfully pushed back russian advances with counter offenses on the outskirts of the capital. keith nigel, what is your sense of where the conflict fans and where it's headed? and how long can ukraine hold out where this additional support that's been provided by, by nato and other western countries?

very little about this war has gone in the way the roger hoped or intended. and it's based a series of cert, but, but of exposed weaknesses in it. sir, it is political assumptions about the, the situation, ukraine and about the performance, the logistics, the communications, and the tactics of russian military forces themselves. that said, russia still has a very large number of forces, it could continue to commit to this, but it knows russia knows that out the flow of. busy western support comes into ukraine. it will become harder rather than easier still for russia and all the reports we have about the more raul and the motivation on the 2 sides in the field suggests that ukraine's of forces are far more disciplined and far more motivated in spite. so things are looking very difficult for russia, which is precisely why there was the fear in the west. busy of

a potential escalation, and it's really escalation scenarios of a racist worry here. and we've heard in the last few days, serious, incredible war is from western sources. but russia might be contemplating the use of chemical even more dangerous weapons. and there are steps being taken, protect nature against that, right. and the other aspect of it back to an earlier part of the discussion, the economic costs that russia was facing on the home front. so it's facing military cost in the field. economic costs at home and the sanctions. they are only just beginning to do their work. the russian economy in every respect basis, unprecedented and rapid difficulties in coming months. let's see what happens to russian public opinion as those consequences worked themselves out in russia, and not just the effect on russian public opinion. and elite says, well, why, what russian television and watch these curated, sort of footage of russian

a lease. i see lots of lots of unhappy and worried faces, and i think those around a privately very alarmed and very unhappy about the consequences of this war. vladimir in moscow is the war going, the way russia one says russia see this war as being a winnable one? well, what i will like to say in this regard that so probably i am not a military expert. i am not connected with general chief of staff. i cannot miss you. i assumed that the 1st of festa, that's 1st the operation, the special operation could be regarded as the as the strike, which is a lightning strike. but then the, probably the a strategy which are a russian military plan us have in their mind, i had changed because it's something, it's understandable letter one, the actual war is weight on the ground. so that means that the,

there will be with them on both sides and ready and side in the russian side. and the, in the other part go be strategy probably a 3rd to avoid unnecessary chassis because casualty solar rush actually. so to my mind is trying to do this, well, is that so i think that the ground is to show differently unfortunately, as far as civilian casualties. i the law, shall i? i can't can't i say doesn't that because i was fortunate. i cannot say a lot of videos and all that we have blocked the youtube and other other western ah, west star gadgets. i mean, i could list you that the strategy is working better. try to avoid as mod, chair civilian casualties as a roster can do. how do you enjoy resubmitted the destructive sorry to interrupt. you know that that is strategy yet. how if you want to jump in,

go ahead. i really wanted to jump on either send that youtube is blocked, but i will be glad to send us through the messages of some video. and the problem is exactly the opposite. that the original operation being the are definitely in for dinner sense of the lightening, the idea of the lightening. but when it haven't happened like these, the next level was the lending operation. try to capture the city of keel. it's also didn't work out well because of the last 8 years ukrainian armed forces, b, repairing training and modernizing, so they were rated to 5. but then one of the slaughter started from the russian side would be in children. it is the use of they have a reference 1st won't be sales and we're bergman's of the cities of the civilian object. and we concede to are not only about money. well, the cell also views of the tragedy is what is happening there are now all the wrong . the international media are just the ras and bomb wise of the dramatic theatre aware. right. 100 people being hiding kind of been outdoors. all people died last.

also let's move to the city of hockey. that is completely destroyed. ok, let's look to the why, maybe the hospital, us 100 schools and all are the city and objects wrong. the country ended, and i just want to ask you and just to move the conversation for a little bit, because we are aware of the different reports on the ground in ukraine. as the nigel said, their fears of what steps russia might take next to unblocked this campaign, and perhaps force ukraine to make concessions at the negotiating table because the 2 sides are talking. what is ukraine prepared to concede? would ukraine be willing to seed any territory, for example, in order to gain a ceasefire with moscow? no escrow. now if we speak about the territory that russians tried to control off the 24th or february, we unfortunately don't see the screen. what map you've been showing, but i can assume that is the same map that explain the other shows up. so that is

not the whole territory. ret cemetery the to the russian federation is controlled. they are controlling predominantly the wards around their problem. regional centers only want your school on of being occupied as well. that is on the south new frame . in other territories, the russians are both being, but they are not controlling completely and they didn't occupy the seat is themselves. so that's why s one. now ukraine can not surrender or to later keep some of the territories because they are still controlled by the russian federation . ok, let me, as we see in some of the places like when we go live, we've been moving them up for their deal. it is, the issue has been at school guns and crate me of the territory that being occupied by the russians ration earlier. ok you to the 2014 events and you are i and to sound that one of the compromises can be returned back to the negotiations. craft february 2022. we've been just discussing the future of the afghan will want succeeded. ok, read me it. would russia consider some of these concessions? what would it take for russia to stop this war today?

let me just 1st director discussion on some of the direction i'm in the regarding discussions. i think that the, at the end of a day, both sides who are worrying with each other. ah, whatever you name it, ah, could be that both sides should give for art. and should the gift concession, son shoot the productively walked to watch that be sir peaceful settlement. so think that to the situation which you are asking before. the 24th alpha. ah, treasury's not realistic for a moment because of the situation completely different. so i mean that the, probably, this is my assumption promoted to reach a peaceful. this will settle. ok. ukraine shoot to negotiate the or giving of independence or ok to recognize this. ah, the next can lugens, can cry me as a part of russia and russia should continue on. lisa, their conditions,

ultimately an organized license and brain briefing, nigel, you have the last word. what choices as russia face now up put in is all in all this war. he's committed a great deal of mimicry, political capital, to it. the only thing that will stop him continuing it is if you read cuba conclusion that it's more risky to carry on the war than it is to stop. it is unfortunately far from that situation right now, despite the costs that he has incurred on the battlefield. and that sanctions will impose on him at home. and that's why the west coast of displayed this unprecedented degree of unity. the final point i make is, i'm sorry, there's absolutely no doubt whatsoever, but russia is deliberately targeting civilians in large numbers. now they are no longer confident they can defeat ukrainian courses. they are trying to coerce you

credit into making concessions by hurting large and killing large samples of innocent people. you can see when you put it through, we'll leave it there. thank you very much for a very, a dynamic conversation. thank you. hi, nationalists, vladimir, so to me call and nigel gold davis. thank you and thank you for watching. you can always watch this program again any time by visiting our website at al jazeera dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. you can of course, also join the conversation on twitter handle if at ha, inside story from me for the bachelor and the whole team here in doha. thanks for watching bye for now. or china in the u. s. sleep walking their way to war. in the struggle over ukraine, here is the test for president joe biden. what proven is really trying to do is rewrite the security architecture in europe. if your personal united states,

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