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a massive toll on russia's economy. can rely on china help, whether the storm will look at new trade ties between the 2 countries and talk to our expert blown welcome to show i'm severely in berlin. prices for commodities sword wednesday as russia's war with ukraine and the resulting sanctions put pressure on global supplies of oil, gas, and even agricultural goods. some shipping companies have avoided black seaports around russia and ukraine, fearing they could be attacked. western sanctions have been down hard. meanwhile, tankers and ports are staying away from russian commodities out of fear they might cross the new sanctions. russian oil so toxic that one major player is or good nestor gus couldn't find buyers for it's 9 tankers on wednesdays, wednesday with 6 and a half 1000000 barrels of oil sitting on board. well that's adding to the pressure on global prices, even though there are as of yet no official oil sanctions on russia benchmark.

brent crude jumping 7 and a half percent around $1113.00 a barrel oil cartel. opec didn't provide any help. they're deciding in a wednesday meeting to stick to current production plans. meanwhile, benchmark newcastle, coal jumping 30 percent for may contracts. while we prices were up by almost 8 percent. that's a 14 year high. russia and ukraine, or both major wheat, ex porters, those rising energy costs come at a delicate moment for europe. new figures show euro's own inflation sort to another record high last month. consumer prices in the 1900 countries that use the euro currency increasing by an annual rate of 5.8 percent in february inflation in europe. as in other major economies has been fueled by those surging energy prices . that were, that was the case even before russia's invasion, and it's left governments with few tools to fight it. and yet in the us, that's just what president joe biden says he intends to do. here he is during the state of the union address on tuesday, with all the bright spot, our economy,

record, job growth, higher wages to many families is struggling to keep up with their bills. inflation is robbing them of gains they thought otherwise. they would be able to feel i get it. that's why my top priorities getting pressure under control. all right, over the years, quarter now in new york. yes, it's top priority, but what can buy really do to combat inflation? i think he's actually under pressure to sanction oil from russia, which would just drive prices further off the seems like a, a tricky bind. well, i mean, what we're hearing here is that bilateral talks and congress are intensifying to a, been an import some of a russian oil when and if that's going to happen, nobody can tell at this point, if you look at the oil industry and doyle market and it's really tricky and even in the united states, as the biggest producer of oil a globally,

it still depends on heavier oil that is produced and overseas. so market. but if you look at russia, for instance, about 3 percent of oil imports are coming from a russia. but clearly, i mean, if you limit the supply site and that is in general, pushing prices higher. but on the other side, that would be a pretty useful a tool to put pressure on a russia if you of start. and yet, while limiting or even stopping in imports of from a russian commodities against federal reserve chairman jerome pals saying to day that he will seek a quarter point rate increase in the coming weeks. will that help? well, i mean, definitely it won't do the trick. curt, immediately as tiffany hit would be the 1st a baby step. i mean, recently was breed expected that by a mid to march, we might even see a 50 or base as point an increase of interest rate. so that seemed so, less likely was all the turmoil going on with the war in the or crane. i mean,

what the federal reserve tries to do is if money gets more expensive with multiple interest rate increases. so you're what it is sort of a cool down of the economy a little bit at this point, cooled down a demand and was that it was such a taking pressure of a price or so that's the basic idea. but that's going to take time and won't happen just because the federal reserve changes. there are interest rates that policy was in the next couple of months in florida and new york. thank you very much. bull and economically battered russia can in theory, still turned to neighboring china for help. the aging is also a strong critic of western nations. it's refrained from criticizing moscow's invasion and recent months have seen the 2 countries strengthen their trade ties. it's been a months since the winter olympics opened in beijing with fireworks and chinese

president deeds in ping waving proudly from the stands abandoned by most international leaders. she had only one prominent visitor, russia's flooded mir putin who certainly knew at the time that the relation between the 2 powerful nations would soon change. that's because russia needs china after the west test distance itself from moscow. russia might be optimistic last year. trade with china reached a record $147000000000.00. it's set to reach $250000000000.00 soon. that's 40 percent more than current trade volume between russia and the u. currently, russia is china, 2nd biggest oil supplier providing over 15 percent of its imports. the country also covers 5 percent of china's demand for natural gas. meanwhile, the food trade has been growing fast. in 2019 china allowed the import of soybeans from russia last year. it added beef to the import list, and just last week, wheat,

china is also a huge buyer of timber from rush us, far east, with imports worth over 4000000000 dollars last year. asked for trade in the other direction. china sells machinery, mobile phones, cars and consumer products to russia with exports up 34 percent last year. china is also russia largest foreign investor having issued at least $125000000000.00 worth of loans for infrastructure projects that are largely tied to china's belt and road initiative. as russia counts on china as its new key trade partner, aging might show some hesitancy, though wary of trouble with its western partners. should it run afoul or sanctions or for more on this our own, clifford kuhn and joins means to do more. and clifford, why exactly is china not condemning russia for this invasion? well, if the big issue, the moment and clearly the back in early february,

we saw that they met just in the run up to the winter olympics in which they declared that their friendship was, had no limits that and they were, they deepened tre, ties as we've seen in the report, and so since that is clearly the chinese knew something about it, certainly she jumping, knew something in advance. and there's growing intelligence. credible intelligence suggests that they did know something was coming, which puts it in a kind of an awkward position because since then it's refused to condemn the invasion. as you've said, it's kind of gone after the u. s. a. nato, rather than actually say anything critical of russia, it's abstained in the un. so there's a lot of issues in their relationship. possibly they were thinking that this was going to be a short, sharp conflict. they weren't expecting this, this slightly more drought drawn out of band. and, but china has got some thinking to do about how it's going to deal with this relationship going forward. and because it risks guilt by association,

if it continues to sort of back even if it's tacitly. but still, you know, definitely backing russia was trading partners also under these hefty sanctions, the sort of spiral out everywhere. how does china view those sanctions? and then what, how does it view the possible effect that it could have on its own economy? i think the spiraling out is, is very important. i think directly it won't have that much of an effect because so far the, a lot of the sanctions have been affected. hydrocarbons they haven't effected fuel energy and so forth. food but does a very strong possibility that these are being held in reserve and could be implemented at a later date. and that would put china into a difficult position because then you're going to see things like secondary sanctions, where the u. s. if the u. s. should and you choose to impose thanks csm companies dealing with, with russian companies. that would be a major headache for china because that would, that would basically draw a line between there, along with their trade dealings with,

with russia. one of those biggest sanctions is of the swift messaging system. russia being excluded from it for the most part, most banks are, is there an alternative in china? we often hear that the china has developed its own system in the russia might benefit from it. is that true? yeah, china has developed its own, its own system, which and russian deed says its has its own system itself that it could work with china. the problem with that is that it's, it's a messaging system. it's like a watts up system, which is fine, but it doesn't work if people don't want to talk to you. so no banks are really going to want to deal with a sanction to heavy sanctioned group of companies, for example, are heavily sanctioned bank in russia that has major dealings in china. so even if these alternative systems are brought in and they will obviously have an effect, but the main thing is going to be about how to deal with secondary sanctions. all right, the self sanctioning by companies that we've seen today, not wanting to, to buy that oil from those tankers. clifford conan dw business. thank you so much. and let's go now to some of the other business stories making headlines. apple ford

and exxon mobile have joined the rank of companies who plan to hop business in russia. apple saying it would stop the sale of i phones and other products in the country. ford in exxon will suspend operations. germany. siemens now says it will also suspend business in russia. russia's largest lender spare bank is exiting the european market as western sanctions tightened following the russian war on ukraine . the announcement came just hours after the european central bank ordered the closure of spare box european arm falling a run on deposits, a firm the tracks crypto currency transaction says $33800000.00 in the digital currency has been donated to ukraine's government and non governmental organizations based in the country. ukraine has received donations mostly in the form of bitcoin, and a theory em after making an appeal on twitter last week, following the invasion. and that's it for me and the dw business team here in

berlin. find out more line d w dot com slash business. thanks for watching. with awe. into the conflict zone with sebastian rushes, president putin has reminded the world of his massive nuclear arsenal. by placing it on the higher alert is the nato alliance of credible determine how real this is, spectra of a 3rd world more general sir. richard sheriff, former deputy supreme commando of the nato alliance and my guest this week from london, a conflict zone. you have to be on

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more and more countries, discrimination, inequality, or part of everyday life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity. make up your own mind in d. w. need for mines. russia has stepped up its attacks across ukraine, the largest invasion for seen in europe since the 2nd world war. and if that's not serious enough, russia's president putin has reminded the world of his massive nuclear arsenal by placing it on higher alert. he will seek to apply maximum force. and if nuclear is part about austell and he feels that he which it is and he feels it's going to give them an advantage, i've no doubt that he, we should be prepared for him to use it. that's general. so richard sheriff,

former deputy supreme commando with the nato alliance and my guest this week from london. it's impossible to predict how this conflict will develop, but it's clear so far that ukrainian resistance has been more effective than expected. and the russians appeared to have suffered substantial casualties. president lensky was given a standing ovation after he spoke to the european parliament for bunker some way in ukraine. but what more can should the west do to help him? he's the nato alliance, a credible deterrent. and how real is the spectra, the 3rd world war, all that and much more. i'm complex. i general richard sheriff, welcome to convict zone you've called russia invasion of ukraine, a real and present threat to the nato alliance. how worried are you by putting

waving his nuclear missiles under the west snows very wide indeed. persian prison both saw nothing and we need to recognize the real threat. but those was carry and the threat is one of the 3rd world war. if yes, i don't want to be alarmist about this and want to stay cool and calculation. but the reality is this, if the person conquers ukraine, and although the ukrainian people and military are fighting an incredibly brave battle, and we should take inspiration of that all. but all the odds are in a stacked and perchance favor. so if there is, if he conquered ukraine, if he occupies ukraine, i think the chances are that he will have a very high chance that he will decide to have a go at establishing, for example, a land cargo through lithuania colleen, and grab a bite off a chunk of the baltic states, and if there is any russian in caching whatsoever international territory,

that means nato or fuzzy member states will be at war with russia. and his nature is a war with russia. that means to nuclear pod, nuclear armed adversaries are locking horns and that must increase the risk of a nuclear exchange. i want to carry on talking about the nuclear problem in a moment. but you mentioned the baltic states of a in any way adequately defended by nato. i have to say that at the moment, given the overwhelming strength, but the russians have got i would be very surprised if they are what nation has in place of the home for the battle groups round about a 1000 times. now, in each, in each of the 3 baltic states and the eastern poland, i know that has been some reinforcement of those. but i think thus far it's been very much of trickle. i would also,

but the nation response falls. we've heard has been dispatched to, to, to reinforce, but that will take time. and i mean, from my, my personal perspective, from a professional military prospectors in order to adequately defend the baltic states nation needs to have several armored divisions in those states. together with all the maritime support assets necessary to fight a major wall and does, and i think we're probably a long way short of that. what do you put that down to why? why are these reinforcements taking so long? what's? what's nature waiting for? from your experience as deputy supreme commander or measure nicer. dr. iran mega is a great, a great a lots. it's a great institution and it's been the most successful alliance while the scene for some 70 years. but it has to match, but it is a consensus organization that has to move at the speed of the slightest shift in the convoy and decisions take time to be made. i wish it rather was,

is the whole issue of a science of war. the science of readiness to read in the preparation and movement of significantly large numbers is the text immense amount of time, an immense amount of a district efforts. and also we have to recognize that nicer than they said they armed forces of nature, particularly in europe, have been little done. effective reduction effectively at the form of disarmament. that has reduced armored divisions, brigades on light brigades, and cut in substantial numbers. great swathes of a sort of military capability, which we need not to push in from any farther adventure. you wrote recently that russia integrates nuclear thinking into every aspect of its military doctrine. what are the implications of that?

does it mean that the russian military is taught to accept more readily, the possibility of using nuclear weapons? absolutely, absolutely. and the use of life for 1st use, in other words, it's actually licensed to 1st use and not only that, but what we, what we could expect to see if the person decides to have a got a voltage states of bytes of a chunk of them all of them and nato would be gearing up to attack to recapture them, which would, in itself be a massive military undertaking. larger than anything, frankly, we've seen since d day 944. and at that point, we could expect russia to threaten nicer with nuclear weapons. he's got put in got nuclear tip to scan the muscles and colleen grad. well within range of nato cities like berlin, frank phillips, copenhagen stocker will be at a and i city. and that would be

a form of blackmail to get to make nature is stopped in its tracks or accept the reality of nuclear exchange. as far as you know, are there any constraints on putin's ability to load nuclear missiles? can he do it by himself without reference to anyone else? do we, do? we have any idea of how his command structure works? every, all the power for the release is in pigeons hands. i remember the words of dmitri pess golf. i think one of his spokesmen saying that the decision for nuclear weapons, for nuclear nuclear attack would be made by, by mister putin, himself, with the false support of the russian people. so the the politburo structure that existed in soviet times, which could have acted as a form of check and balance has gone. so effectively, he's got much more power than the old soviet leaders had eye off because he's being painted as a heavily armed, isolated and angry old man. and they don't necessarily make the best decisions or

the most rational decisions do they? well, he is he so heavily on isolated, irrational, angry old mom. i'm getting older and you're absolutely right. which is why we have to be which is why we have to sit up and take notice and really be careful and really insure i'm going to send one out of all this is effective deterrent. so i cannot stress more strongly the need for, for later to get her itself off to mobilize, to be prepared, ultimately to fight a war of national survival. and that means armed forces on a scale we have not seen since the, the most 10 days of the cold war with really significant forces capable and able to operate. so that's going to be relevant. it's going to mean reconstitution of forces. it's going to mean it's gonna have implications on also saucers, in a way which we haven't seen for generations. the editor, one of the russian newspapers, nova, guys, yet dmitri more out of said pigeon was spinning

a nuclear button around his finger. like some expensive car key chain does put in strike you or someone who thinks. not only that he might wage a war nuclear war against the west, but that he could actually, when it do you see circumstances under which he could win. i think he thinks exactly that the circumstances in which he could win are circumstances in which deterrence has failed completely. so i come back to my argument about the importance of deterrents to preserve peace. such pieces exist where the piece for ukraine. but if we want to preserve peace and they so that means every european nation member state of the nation of nature, needs to put it shows that the, we'll dig deep and build up capability and get that capability to the, to the eastern flags of next or as quickly as possible, i don't get a sense of the agency that's needed. i think on the whole it seems to be much very

much life. as usual. less some token reinforcement. we've got to change that mindset fundamentally. how far do you think putins nuclear threats reflect his frustrations with the performance so far? his forces in ukraine does he have justification for feeling frustrated. what they? well they donal more, what they haven't done in the 1st week or person has no justification for thinking anything other than title, object, shame and horror, what he, what he's perpetrated on the world. but of course you have made heavy weather, don't they? but as there's no question they've made very heavy weather and it's about indicates to me, i mean does, does, does, does, does plus and minus the plus of course, is that it's delaying the alternate. i heard, right. not, but i fair. it's saying what might be the inevitable and you correct and put the minus is, but he will be frustrated. he will be angry, he'll be angry, or he will last charge. he's already using

a mass artillery indiscriminately inter in ukraine in cities like hawkins, and very likely in care of as well. at some stage. he will, he will, he will seek to apply maximum full. so if nuclear as part of that also, and he feels that he which it is and he feels it's going to give him an advantage, i've no doubt that he should be prepared for him to use it. there are the moment unconfirmed. ukrainian reports that speak of thousands of russian capital casualties. do you think that's true? to think they've taken heavy losses? i suspect they probably have, but at this stage it's very difficult to validate the fall of war covers everything . the chances are that they probably have, i mean, any form of the sort of fighting that where that is it, but it's happening in ukraine are, is fighting on a scale, not since it seen in europe since the 2nd level, the clash of great armies. the tanks and armored infantry battles and gums. i as

well as all the arrow tracks as well, and thought is going to be expensive in terms of council, just particularly when it gets into run those fighting and built up areas. fighting in cities is very casualty intensive. that's why it's all just strapped. most isn't it. fighting in the city also does that like fight day like war anyway? that's why we serve a soldiers in order to try and deter and prevent war. but if it comes to it, fighting and built up areas is bloody hard working hard work, expensive and casualties and very, very slow and get the chances are that it'll pop push in done as, as he goes through those cities. whatever happens in the 1st few days of this invasion, russia presumably will take the major cities eventually. how hard will it be for them to hold them? well, i think that's a wider question on how hard will it be? i mean, the answer is that he will ultimately take the major cities. how hard would it be

to hold them very hard indeed, as it will be very hard to hold whatever ukraine box of ukraine pushing occupies less perhaps the the extreme eastern separatist areas of done. that's good. how can i say that? because i'm in no charge that if and when the time comes, ukrainians will fight, will continue to fight the flame of resistance, but very brightly. it will be supported by the west and by nature i have no dogs and in fact preparations should be being made. now, to put in place the necessary resistance support for resistance, it'll be a very, very expensive business. he will the ne, in order to hold the centers of ukraine, the why do you cry? he's going to need really significant numbers of soldiers. i saw rand corporation estimate around about 6 to 700000, but he hasn't got that. so i sense that's going to result in

a long drawn are bloody insurgence. if a put in a form of, of the like of which i think, i think i'm gonna saw him under the soviet attack. it's going to be a hell of a lot. was for the russians. and it was sort of service general sheriff when you, what passes through your mind when you see the beleaguered ukrainian resistance that some of them have been pushing back, rushing on vehicles with their hands cowering in bunkers, lining up to get a rifle that they've never used in their life and not knowing whether they'll live out the day and they want the kind of help, the west won't give them. they want closure of ukraine's ass base to russian aircraft. how does that make you feel? desperate on the one hand, every, every emotion in me, it says we should be coming to help in a direct and aggressive and as a form providing our support. particularly when you see the shots of the aquatic

element convoys bottled up and effectively packaged ready for destruction. and not being hit by any form of ukrainian attack. but on the other hand, we have to think clearly we have to understand that any form imposing any form of no fly zone over ukraine is an act of wall. it will involve nature, aircraft shooting, done, rush, macro. it will require nature, aircraft to attack and destroy russia, defense installations and radars on the ground. it will be an act of war. and it will mean that nature is at war with russia. the say want for this is if you are, if you are going to go for that sort of approach and impose a no fly zone, you have to be prepared to fight a war of national survival. you have to have ensured that the eastern flank of ne, so is absolutely solid and properly defended and you have to be prepared for the

sort of false levels required to fight on the ground and in the in ukraine. and i'm afraid to say that at the moment is simply out of the question, general chef. so, so the west saying it stands with ukraine. doesn't really represent the truth. it's an uncomfortable thought, isn't it? that if nato had given ukraine what it was demanding for years, that's a negative nato membership. they probably wouldn't be in this position now, would they? well, again, the same a similar argument applies to nation membership of ukraine recalls nation promised . you're actually right, nature promise, membership of ukraine, nation to ukraine, backup progress summit in 2008 at some stage. however, one of the facts of life is you don't make a promise if you can't keep it. you know, over promise a took over promise and under deliver is

a fundamental mistake. and that is the mistake. but nato has may, because if, if your crime was spam, member of nature, nature would have had to have deployed sufficient defensive forces in ukraine to deter any russian attack. this was needed and they so force stationed permanently ukraine. think back to the nature of force at west germany, in the cold war, a force of 2 to 300000 soldiers together with all the equipment and paraphernalia of war was nature. randy got to do that back in 2008, 910. i don't think there was a political chance in hell of that happening. so again, we come back to the point about if nato was to accept the ukraine into the alarms, nature would need to be prepared, would have needed to have been prepared to defend it, to the teeth with really significant armed forces. and that i, for, to say was never going to happen. you say that it, but in recent years, mister putin hasn't made much of

a secret of his expansion. james is desired to compensate as he calls it, for the collapse of the soviet union, marching into georgia, for instance in 2008 crimea 6 years later was a pretty powerful statement of his direction of travel. and only got was a slap on the wrist. a few invitations withdrawn a few sanctions. the punishment didn't fit the crime. did it? if it had, do you think he could have been dissuaded from the poppies on now? i've no dodgy could have been yes. and if you read the forward to my, my book i talk about was george are, are, are rhineland, and was, was, was, was cry now, today one moment. and i post the question, what will be our problems moments. there are real parallels with the 1930s. and if you think back, for example, in the british context to 2010, a significant reduction of the size of the armed forces, particularly the regular army, the dismantling of the army. on with division, we had 4 years later, you got to crime them. and at the time, i,

well remember the british politicians, when or shortly after actually try to 60 british politicians when, when, when challenged on whether there was a threat for russia saying, i do not know anybody who thinks like that, that was a degree of complacency and the failure to really look at, put in listening to what the patient was saying and think through the implications you by the story that the west lost him at some point along the way. when he came to pod that was even talk of russia joining nato at some point. wasn't there even a, a friendly, fuzzy period between east and west, the west? screw that up 2 sides for every story. i obviously right at one stage, i think 99 when he came to par, he said he wouldn't rely, joining russia, russia joining nature. i don't necessarily buy the stories of

a west lawston. i think i can remember. well, tony blair, in good faith making saying that he thought, but preaching when he came to power was the man with whom we could do business. now i think what you say is a man who has increasingly become corrupted by par, absolutely corrupted by palm. and who has decided that the return of the politics of on and blood to europe suits his intention. you've basically been describing for the last few minutes, an alliance, the nato alliance. that isn't fit for purpose. when you, when you look at the huge resources available to nato countries and the relatively meagre pot to the russia can access, how is it? but moscow seems to be calling the shots i off because year after year defense experts have said they took would have been hard put to win a war with russia. and now where, according to you, at least on a path,

it could take us to a war. how is that ultimately, decisions about the size and shape and funding alarm forces are made by our political leadership. not by not by the specialists. you have to carry a lot, a lot is quite right of democracy, but it is the, and i civil power of the military. and the, the fundamental reason is that our political leadership, our electrons, have not been particularly in europe, especially in europe. because i think it's different in america, or canada to the pen boss. have not been for pad to invest adequately in defense. they have preferred to invest in social security and that you cation and other spending. because that's what gets them elected. defense has never been

an electrical issue in this up until then i throw the last last decade to decade, 3 decades. you've talked of the west needing to adapt now to a new reality. you said the world that we knew before, february 24th in which the rights of sovereign states to live in peace with guaranteed by a respect for international law without armed force. that's gone forever. how is the west supposed to behave in this bleak new world that you envisage while it's got to get rail? it's got fast, way to, to the imperative is deterrence. it's going 1st of all to muster than mobilize the capability to prevent any further incursions by, by pushing into, into any caution into the nation. but it's going to think long term. it's got to recognize that we are in here in, for the long haul. they're all going to be at a quick fixes that is not going to be any comfort it not. this is going to need and

the very best case, a significant they towed to terrorists falls all away from poland to remain. ja, it'll dwarf the night before the requirement of that nature face during the cold war for a significant force in west germany. this is a much, much longer commitment on a much bigger commitment. if we will ask, has the will for that. well, we'll have to see where getting along with the president the previous president didn't have much, will like nato at all and it will probably collapsed. right, this is, this is the 100, this is a $1000000.00 question. whether whether, whether you're actually right on the trunk, but who showed trump to demonstrate contempt for nature and contempt for his places, allies, and in a sense case eat up to potential adversaries. and from back in if he wins the election in 2024, nate has been big trouble in it. while by that stage will know which way,

which through the cookie has crumbled. but, but the bottom line with trump is that he breaks that fundamental trust that whatever president occupies the why size, that was total certainty, that america would come to the aid of a nature, a member of attract truck, trump, right? i think on the biden where in a better place, i hope we are on the president biden. but again, i would like to see significant numbers of real war fighting capability being shipped across the atlantic. not. i see no signs of that at the moment, and we do need to see that, for example, in, in the cold war, the americans routinely redeployed armored divisions from, from america to john, a west germany. as part of reinforcement exercises the re for directions sizes just to demonstrate that they could. then it's not doing that again, not likely armed troops is not enough. you, as i said, painted this bleak picture, but haven't the incredibly brave selfless ukrainian visors are battling against

overwhelming odds, having by shown us a vision of a much better future that could be, hadn't they given nato some inspiration are? unquestionably, they are inspiring beyond belief and to see you at the fact the way the ukrainians of her fort is extraordinary. but, but let's not kid ourselves, brave men and women without you turn weapons and mullet off cocktails are not going to stop god's trying counties look at what look at the count, the convoy that we've all been looking at for satellite pictures all. where is the destruction of that? why has that? no. why have the ukraine has not been able to attack that? what worries me is the barrels is not capable to capable enough to do it. and all they are unable to maneuver the necessary ahmed formations to do it. but that is a force, an enemy force which has been packaged for destruction and advantage cannot be

taken or appears not to be taken. so that's what read wirelessly general sir. richard sheriff, thank you very much for being on complex. thank you. thank you. ah ah, ah, with

the war and ukraine, many say they'll resist for as long as possible. hundreds of thousands are fully in the fighting. what does it feel like to leave everything behind? how our neighboring nations coping with the wave of refugees. and how do russians actually view hooton's war? focused on europe. in 3 d,

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