studying the canon and the curriculum that we went towards was handed down from elsewhere. it was an inherited curriculum that is the image of architecture in the west of to text it may a valley and our 100 ravenna pub, one that was for something that social housing cannot provide, which is personal expression, fried studio, be unscripted on al jazeera washington general assassinated by ukraine in moscow. he's accused him of using chemical weapons on the battlefield. that says, russian forces academy more ground in the us, presidents and waiting. don't have trump is calling for the water. and so can that happen? this is inside story, the hello again on james baseball from the battlefields of ukraine. a russian general

has become one of the was late. his victims, killed by a bump, lost in the central, must go along with his assistant, hidden in the school to the device explosion. is sophisticated ukrainian operation . the tenant general eagle carry off was chief of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, accused of ordering chemical weapons attacks on ukrainian troops on the battlefield . ukraine's been struggling, losing ground to russian forces helped by north korean soldiers, all this weeks before donald trump returns us, president saves, he wants to end the war. so how much is the return of trump influencing russian to new trading and tactics? now, what are the chances of land the war? and if so, how might, what might happen if russia decides to press on against a weakening your training. we will discuss all of this development without gas. but 1st, this report from how does the bahamas, the russian general killed

a central most cool, bought from the buckle fields in ukraine. ukraine says eagle capital was that legitimate target, ordered the use of chemical weapons against ukrainian soldiers. must go describe the kid as a terrorist attack. say that besides that i see, but on the permanent mission of russia to the un raise the issue of the committed terrorist acts during the human security council meeting on the supply of western weapons to ukraine, requested by russia on december. the 20th, we are confident that all the organizes and perpetrators of the matter of ego career of will be found unpunished. ukrainian government sources of confirmed intelligence of this organize destination as it was coded out your korean president for the musicians who had been meeting the leaders of senior officials called for sure unity against russia now. but they have not seen it. now. we need a strong coming position of old partners and we need real piece of the most

important thing is that this is the kind of piece that can be achieved through strength is a freshman forces. make advances on the back of the east. then you create some exploits. see the talk was inc, leaning more liberal with the united states before donor trump, refunds us preston because of the battlefield setbacks. ukraine has a very hard time and a very short window of opportunity was therefore, it will use all means at its disposal in order to undermine some how rushes ability to wage this war and to position itself in a better way when it comes to negotiations. when donald trump enters the oval office, the trump has about to push for a seaside between the warning sites when he picks office in january, but does not provide the details, the test but fusing, keep and you, the to clean could be pushed into making concessions to most cool, we'll be talking to president button and we'll be talking to the representative. so

let's get representatives from u. k. we gotta stop it. it's, it's carnage. russia occupies nearly 20 percent of the opinion to 3 that it's easy to keep on sites a waiting to see what trump we do on whether he can succeed in getting a ceasefire, agreed to them and just need for insight story the well, let's discuss this more with today's gas in washington dc, we'd have until leaving his director of the racial program at the quincy institute and the member of the valve cloud, the russian think tank in moscow. powell folks, and how he's an independent defense military analyst. i think he would like to see melnik is co director of the rest i'm call center ukrainian public policy research institute. thank you. all of you for joining us. let me start with you. and the told us seems to be in a particularly all day shifts attack. and it seemed to have very sophisticated

planning and execution. yes, indeed. it's not the 1st attack organized by the ukrainians. i mean, it's estimation, but didn't russia, but it's certainly by far, you know, the highest profile well. and yes, it does indicate to your friends, no ability to, to describe crushing targets. the problem tell us how this is being viewed in moscow and what this saying about how this took place because it was designated we sent an electric scooter just as the general and his assistant were leaving the building. i think he just stopped us. 6 am in the morning to set it off at that exact moment, required precision and some sort of visual surveillance as well. yes, there was visual surveillance, but the attack was made possible because generally the q up didn't have any security detail whatsoever. you simply didn't have it,

and of course the band director shrink to splinter is normal in moscow at most times, but not tried now because it was covered with ice and snow and old as good as were removed by the company's cool waste them. so if so if there won't be at least some kind of detail, they would know that step as crude they're running around. and december, moscow is now dried. so it was just simply not he was not gonna to is that considered a it's a serious thought. is that the route the premiums to do that rather easily. there was, of course, the person who was with the bomb this, you was monitoring the building and when the general appear, she just seemed great. that's a very good through a mobile phone. that was it. but she was soon, apparently the russians found out the rush at moscow as a very sophisticated system of close uh, uh, television cameras, uh,

securing all the moscow streets and the eclipse with the computer system of a recognition of faces. so be russian authorities swift. we found out who that was, where she went and found him trying to find in the, some kind of village outside of moscow. so it was very so swiftly and effective way . i figured out the whole, so the whole key here, let me just pick you up on something. you said that people, but you said, you said, you know you, you say he had no security detail. and yet this was a person with a very important job in the military hierarchy, and he was a very prominent and outspoken figure. is this considered that as a major security failing to the, the, the one right now are, so you're promoting that the less the directions or the services very smooth,

free a crack the case. but yes, that's the failure. of course, not to say that this could be a, a secure or a security threat to this particular in general the, the troops that he is commander of, are also in charge in battlefields of ukraine. ad for the usage of heavy plays throwing equipment plus systems of the team. and also deal which are very much used visa or around guided missiles with fuel bomb warheads that are very much used to dig through, breaks through the rest of the brain. you don't get big guns and they've been defensive. so these are the troops that are very much involved in the russians role, but stadium brands and you great. so they should have asked you and given him some

kind of deep, i'd like to see i'm interested by the fact to the officially ukraine has said nothing about this. numerous media, hoping spacing to source is in the training security service, the s b u. and they all saying they did it normally. that's sort of plausible deniability about these things, but they seem to be advertising that they did it this time. i think the 2 slides calling for emma security services. so for instance that isabel, thank you for your and your premiums are doing just a resort and thing of a visual face time. as usual, we didn't do my and the responsibility. but also as having said, claimed to the responsibility behind your tax. but obviously, based on the service, please, are you talking to killing for the very professional manner again,

from the, from the point of view of the highest banking, the actual general with the most civilian casualties. and this, i assume that the guy was captured by the mattress. the box was big nationalities, the most probably j t is just the pointed to the survey. and i'm quite sure that says options. uh, what i was trying to find and the delay as be fine. just that fact. so someone probably just tell me a little bit more about this general general eagle, cool off 54 years old. his job chief of the radiation chemical and biological defense troops. but i think it's also was remarking on the fact that he was quite a regular on russian television, quite a pro kremlin voice with quite outspoken views to see if there's

a lot of speaking to journalists and, and briefing the defense ministry talking and telling us about the american laboratories um bear logical laboratories, in crane and another for marco. so yet the nation's a, a saying this is the nav story. that menu, russian officials got a beam promoting that these are can capture biological war orientated laboratories which has been denied by washington and by other uh, probably it states. so yes, he has been telling you about a bad marriage and activity, but i don't think that that was actually really the intention of uh, the tax on him for what you said to journalists, i believe just a regular. he was

a prominent general and he didn't have a security detail. so she was an easy target and you create him or was a parent we took the opportunity to if it's an easy chart and it's all the old that in washington dc. how do you think this will be seen in the us and by the west? because rushes claiming this was a terrorist act, the planning to raise it the un security council? yes, he was a military man, but he was on russian soil and he was not targeted in the battlefield environment. do you think? so i'm in the west to be a little uneasy about ukraine's tactics. here. we've got some legal point of view, i think because also, you know, it is russia just way jubal within ukraine. the big question is, has the incoming trumpet ministration will do this kind of thing from a, from a political point of view. because of course they are or at least

trump himself and vice president vance. i'm a peer anxious for. busy an early piece that for them to state some guesses. and so the question that they will be addressing will be how this affects the chances of a piece. that's how the russians will this phone. whether this will lead to a new, neutral escalation that will impede piece towards the end. we. we don't know that yes, i mean, clearly from the ukraine in point of view, this is an attempt to rattle. so the russian establishment to tell them that they are not safe, even within most of um bots. uh well, you know, we, we now have to see what russia does in response. i one can imagine what the response will be to uh to try to target for it goes in into alexi. you had on the told that say that, that he thinks is ukraine trying to rattle the russian establishment. what's your

view of the message that ukraine was trying to send with this particular attack? and i agree with the probably that to one of the target audiences be awesome religion. all utilities just want to show them that they don't say anymore. and that is the key audience is that i can tell you this a fucking from the very beginning to these 4 is trying to frustrate so that i found that this se so called special military operation. and most go leaves the lights up and use going on now, and that's the number for the tax on let's go and the i think that this particular case actually shows the, not just the following some general, but many of our, some uh,

highlighting this the shots that said, you stay officer is to take him to responsibility, athletics him getting professional criminal parts from. so i only know that you can't just real trying to establish justice in him. the only thing i don't know after i did this is the one that does have an assault about hours in a classical sense. and so i said, i'd say that. and then i also agree that said, i know how for a care for you and your opinion, leadership does either of the, a simple actions problem, washington, dc. because in number of cases, what i'm call main partners trying to persuade you claim not to do it. the sort that like for instance, during cube papers in the mail last last year or you can, you know, the facts on that option. the us nuclear facilities or

russian. the is me. so do you find that these at voyles storage is the so i think the, this is one of the ukraine shall take you should consider very carefully, but the wire planning such effects. pothole. how is this being perceived by ordinary people in russia? because the will perhaps, and ukraine can feel a long way away, but we have had drug and strikes. we have had previous assassinations and bombing. does it begin to feel that? well, that's a long way away is coming to moscow. hospitalization, quite a city that's removed from the war. it's not cold here much at all in the streets and the care phase and rest. some concert halls based, flew up that was of course won't cause the sun,

but it wasn't attached as much. now for a new one and the phone bed is not enough where you wait to change the url mode of the moscow population ability, something more dramatic adventure that can really the thinking that they have the bicycle from a front line straight gauge right now. it's not upwards at all. and that's all, let's quickly examine the claims of chemical weapons use in ukraine. this general was in charge of if they are true. what do you make of some of these claims that more than 2000 ukrainian service members have been treated in hospital that they've been using a chemical weapon called a chloral pickering, which was 1st used in the world will want to talk sick ation. what do you make of those claims as well the, the status of, of this chemical is,

is rather ambiguous. it's not to be full agent as was used in, in syria. um, so it's an ingredient in other things including a complete 2 legal uses of pesticides. and forms of riot control. gas. the question is the quantity. but russia has been using it, it seems not to kill people. a box to as of you guys, right, please use it to, to, i'm disabled, but in the end about a whole, to full su, craniums out of bung cuz um, and it's that for not mean this is not a weapon of mass destruction. but as i say it's exact legal status is something that the you know, that the lawyers would have to. ringback debates alexi,

let's look at the context of all listen where we are now. the 3rd anniversary on the will will be if it was still going on february the 24th. so we're approaching that. the end of the street. it's a war of attrition with huge human costs, but it's a lot to is it not that your country crane is slowly losing. what's your assessment as of as a former military man in defense, defense official is going badly. is it not? yes, i'm due to the baby to success the a couple days later on the battlefield. so you can use the forces ukrainians force to grow from a something positions are the same time and there is no significant progress on the russian side is just our shot is made in the 2nd control in advance is on a daily basis. beds the actual page,

the normal price for these practical expenses. and so we have 5 casualties for scratch. it wouldn't be of the time for a flash in advance is something was, is killing me through the man per months. so it throughout will pay cash. uh uh, even you know, to capture the debt score was to control probably a one year or more. i showed that i shall forces on the table to come to tactical successes into racial brain. so but anyway, as i said, it is very illegal. altima, just my thoughts, the ukrainian possibilities to come back and all that kind of answer. yes, it's been a, was a tradition book, just a simple solution for both sides. and then the question is, which size will be able to find longer because they talk

about so i mean, upset if as long as the resources of fine ukraine can count on less than support but, but it comes through manpower restaurant. they have d s at least 3 times a year for those ational source. and uh, how much seems like the only way to understand why ship to use to, to, to find, to some level of compromise have seems that the registration probably share about the assessment of the situation and kind of russia it may be, gaining ground, can't continue to bad, these huge human costs. i mean, want us to do. i have with us estimates admit late 600000 dead and wounded since the start of the war and russia now sitting in one area and to us having to rely on

north korean forces. who are also taking large casualties, a more packet and like provisions of bean, or the ground throughout the waste mobile numbers to test their capability to get a call or a comp at to cooperate with the russians. troops on the battlefield and, and get there. and then the numbers that are not afford will be about $10000.00, which is not the really big compared to the size of the russian non pricing on the front line. so i don't think that factor would be the size of a, there's hope, expressed by the russian press that by the my point in the back of the crate. and, you know, these law says i'm scroll rushing a draft, so break the morale of the cranium. troops and that the crane will collapse or increase degree to russian terms. and there is some hope that may be of a new american this duration will hope that's happened. and the, this is going,

there is going to be a compromise with a compromise on was russian or a pressure believes it's, it's terms and a russian favorable compromise that has come on. it's all, would you agree with that? i mean we, we, obviously this has been going on for nearly 3 years, but the time line right now, all you play is just a month. that's when donald trump is in the white house. that's when things could change when he takes office. it was yes, but i mean, i don't think that the from administration is simply going to devolve so i'm degree to russian times. that will be negotiations and it will be compromised. both sides will have to give up to the maximum positions. and of course, it's on the russian side, it will be determined to a great extent, by what prussia thinks it's chances are on the baffled sales. mean if,

as my colleagues have said, of the russian government thinks that this is going to be a war of attrition. going on and on and on with enormous law says fullness for very small games, then they will be inclined to compromise. but if they think or if there is a complete ukrainian collapse, then of course they will want to go for much more. and that's something that we've really kind of easily judge because you know, there is the analogy of the 1st floor was you know, that was attrition for years and years. and then one side or the other did collapse . part of the problem is whole, can speak to that much more than i do, that we're getting a lot of wood from western john this from the premium side about the exhaustion of ukrainian troops. but of course, we're not guessing that what's in the russian side. so we have a much less clear idea of what the condition of the russian on forces in the front

line is on that scale. um, well, president zalinski said originally you wanted to regain all the territory. now it seems to be floating a new position that he might be prepared to freeze things if there are guarantees given to the western half of you crying. what he currently can talk shows up maybe even making it a native member or a sort of what some of the 2nd, a west germany, east germany, solution just a bit to where you are to it does. it's not practical, but some changes in the brain. so control very much, so i'm always the position that i was enjoying skin knowledge that you wrote a few months ago now. and she's talking about the possible compromises. but that as they will so they all have liked serves for the 1st and last and

that is the red line. so the level of pumps should be carefully considered to guess what? through cranial societies like to accept the membership is fine. i'll do, i don't use it as it can be either adjusted or post code. uh, no, it's a big deal, but i know something that you can use for the billing those features for face. okay, i'd like to, i'd like to bring it in purple, just to respond to that problem. do you see any mood from the must go side from president putin, for compromise right now as well right now deficient one is not for the which is why should that she wants to go get its objectives on the objective is to uh before problem and says should be accepted as russian don't change. who knows with pride, media and may go membership

a should be totally close and forever for your brain and as so on. but again, what happens on the battlefield in the coming months will determine which way or which side goes, i mean, oh to freeze a more that's getting no one nowhere right now really seems a good idea, but they don't. even if that is, do you ever have to clean the boat? we agreed actually time right out a ceasefire. what the, the miller try zone? why can career somewhere in cyprus or that will require so much show the ground word for diplomats or a is some kind of peacekeepers. i mean, right now the goal seems rather remote because simply declaring as the fire, where people who are forced to stand right now on the ground,

that won't work the door have worked out some kind of, you know, try zone thing. and that will also require a lot of negotiations a lot of time. and while that's happening, there's going to be fine. thing is going to continue. so i don't see much prospect, even if there is a desire on both side to find the compromised dash. we switched, we work out a compromise. thank you very much. thank you to all guess today, alexi mount mc pablo feldman. hi, and i'm a to leave and if you join this part way through our discussion, remember you can always watch the program again whenever you want on a website, which is their adult calm. well, actually costs the inside story spot and like next time please send us your comments. some suggestions. find us on facebook, facebook dot com forward slash a j inside story on x. we are at a inside story for me, james base. i'll see you back here. very soon, a little the team here, please stay safe bye for now. the

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