[000:00:00;00] the the know the phase for only of a piece above it, but it says los go was title thoughts um, so the main p and then vantage on the front line for more than any, is it supposed to meet the stop the hostilities right now there is a depletion of combat equipment, ammunition and most importantly, personnel on the part of the training on forces armies moving forward to stop for the week means to give the enemy the chance to gain a foothold from their positions. cracks of the cove out for me, it was rough. i take 2517 jewels. he suggest a name and location in your brain and bring in any defense they want a russia would file

a new high performance this i'll say about that response to concentrate older air defense and missile defense forces there. and we will strike there with the ocean and see what happens. we are ready for such an experiment, is the other side ready? and a blank so of questions ending is maybe 4 and a half hour or 2 in a session. the russian president explain why he does not fuzzy. we are to any insults from abroad to come from the way it's up to what you say is what you are. and this has done, in my opinion, out of importance. and why should we demonstrate this important? we have enough arguments to state that we're positioned purely the from the, to the world. this is all to you, and it's good to have your company today. a top story this a, russia doesn't need a truce. it needs lossing piece. that's the central message from lot of inputs in

about the putting conflict during his math in q and a session. i mean, so to advise you, even if this is a sincere attempt to find a solution taking your, you know, a view. this attempt is balanced and not imposing on either side. that is why it is being put forward by neutral countries that do not interfere in the conflict. like western countries do, who are actually at war with us using ukrainians as proxy. so they are actually a belligerent patio and is it possible to stuff of the hostilities right now? there is a depletion of combat equipment, munitions, and most importantly, right 1st and now on the part of the ukranian armed forces is moving forward to stop for a week and you means to give the enemy the chance to gain a foothold on their positions to take a break and get the necessary equipment and then munitions lane, people in ukraine are snatched from the streets like straight doors. as i already said, at the ministry of defense, they are snatched like stray dogs. but at least those are brought to shelters for straight animals. and then they try to assign them to family, but here they simply throw people in the firing line. we need peace,

long term lasting peace, with guarantees for the russian federation and your it is a difficult question of how to provide these guarantees. but in general, we can look for it as for short term truces. here the prime minister of hungry mister orbits approached me with this proposal as to what so difficult for you to have a christmas truth for a day or 2. i said, well, yes, that's probably true, but 1st people talk to the strange inside. we agreed at least 3 times, 2 events of this kind of shipping in the black sea and on energy infrastructure and so on the left then air gun also made proposals. and suddenly the head of the ukranian regime announced has no negotiations. no true. so i think then i called him, i say, to add a gun. what's happened? he says, well, that's what our partners are like i asked or, but to he also propose the christmas true thing is he also proposed an exchange of prisoners. i did not refuse the next day, the head of the regime announced that there would be no truth, no prisoner experience. or the correspondence i ask is that it was right at the heart of the action fund to inside the doing the direct line moved by members. and she was us reactions,

the smallest you creak. he needs the soul off to that absolutely. mattress, the press conference, my 1st time actually in the pool itself, what really stood out to me was how the energy will present in person. it just didn't dis, over the course of those 4 hours in 27 minutes. and he was just moving with such ease between a huge range of stories from the domestics to the foreign from move, which is to minute tree advances from natural disasters to the art open negotiation . now of course, a huge chunk of the presidents was what dedicated to the conflicting ukraine that was one of the most off about topics when it comes to requests from russian citizens. a few highlights, i do want to bring you starting with a document, pretend comment about the hypersonic missile edition, which was recently deployed a few weeks ago against a minute. treat industrial facility in ukraine uh foot uh, flooding the page and it was very clear. this is

a projectile that absolutely has no e quote on. if you do, i believe austin. why not have initial faceoff? some experts in the west believe that such a messiah is easy to shoot down. well if those western experts think so, let them offer us. and let them offer those in the west in the us who pay them for their analysis to conduct some kind of technological experiment. say a high tech and dual of the 21st century. let them identify some object to destroy the se in key of concentrate, older air defense and missile defense forces there. and we will strike there with your rational and see what happens. we are ready for such an experiment. is the other side ready? what obviously, that was a little tongue in cheek, but something that i really noticed was one continuing thought idea on when a person was discussing what ad defense is, key of has audits. disposal. he said, we need to ask all guys that what they have um and he said diesel is so people who want to which country,

oh it's 3 must elements on policy. i thought the strong impression that the russian leader was actually in contact with people. most of the minutes really put potentially even the political a leads to would have goals to almost every single question that was about the was the focus was on. negotiation has to be noted. the delay of the land, as he talked today is very different costs to the late of the land as it was in easton volt, during those peace volts. in the spring of 2022, which was stopped by the british prime minister at the time. forest johnson on a product that was actually just one of 3 deals that most coke and he had signed with a key of each time, then tearing it up. what also cropped up was kids. patrons named me those on the european continent, and the view from the kremlin seems to be on this. the day of absolute is shut themselves in the foot, not just financially, but in terms of security to open

a pi. a crew of ukraine has cut off our guess applies to european consumers. on the one hand, it picks from their hands because only with the support of the west, including from europe, can it exist, not only to fight, but to exist, and at the same time, it creates problems for them. by cutting off the supply of our relatively cheap gas to europe, there would be no such contract. everything is already clear. well then all right, we will survive. and guess problem was advised this by the way, our special services recently reported to me that in slovakia several doors have been detained and it is clear that they are ukrainians of what they're doing with maps of the location of gas energy facilities. in slovakia i will ask through partner channels about that. it's not enough that we have terrorist attacks. now the european countries have them as well. i repeat, once again, they feed from the hand, pick from the hand, and have already moved on to attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on the

territory of europe. or finally on the conflict and ukraine. i do want to bring you the response to question from the bbc, because i think it very comprehensively covered. the longstanding west an aptitude towards this, the world's largest nation. the love exactly 25 years ago, boris yeltsin resigned, handed over power to you and told you to take care of russia. now after 25 years, do you think you have done that successfully? because from the outside, what do we see? we see significant losses in the so called special military operation that you announced, we see ukrainian soldiers in the course region. you criticize nato expansion, but nato has increased at russia's borders. there are sanctions, high inflation and demographic problems. so do you believe you have protected your country? yeah, sure, 3rd, i believe that not only protected russia, but also pulled it back from the brink of the abyss. everything that was happening to rochelle before and after was leading us to

a complete and total loss of our sovereignty. without sovereignty, russia cannot exist as an independent state. i would like to draw your attention to what you said regarding boris nikolai, which yeltsin everything seemed fine. he was patronizingly patted on the back, and no one even noticed when he occasionally had a drink. he was very well liked in all western circles, but as soon as he raised his voice in defense of yugoslavia, as soon as he stated that this contradicted international law and the un charter. and as soon as he said that it was unacceptable in modern europe to strike belgrade the capital of a european state without the sanction of the un security council, he was immediately persecuted and labeled an alcoholic and other derogatory terms. don't you remember this? i did everything to ensure that russia remains an independent and sovereign power, capable of making decisions in its own interests rather than in the interest of those countries that were trying to draw it toward themselves. well, putting it on the back for their own purposes. nothing out beyond rochelle pulls the crisis and syria was touched upon. and that the energy that i felt was that

most go was tip toeing a little bit. it felt that how to be cautious and diplomatic because of course it's a very complex region. so many players involve the summer to rush to cooperate with on international platforms. one thing though, the russian need was absolutely categorical about and that was on who had the most to gain from the toppling of to, to, to deal with just to get those to buy a turkey. so he's doing everything to ensure it security on it's southern borders during the developments in syria to create conditions for the return of refugees, france from its territory to other territories of syria, which are concentrated on the territory of syria, which is actually under the control of turkey and something to push back perhaps in the kurdish formations from the border. all this is possible and perhaps to some extent it will even be done. but still, the main beneficiary of the events taking place in syria, in my opinion, is israel. and you can have any attitude towards what is real is doing. russia

condemns the seizure of any syrian territories. our position here is not subject to any adjustment, but he's real is also solving issues related to security for itself. i saw this is the line on the golden heights. a well known line of israel has advanced to a depth of 25 kilometers to a provocative question by the n b. c. you suggested the collapse of assets regime on the latest subsequent thing to moscow could be considered a strategic defeat for russia. the head of state absolutely disagree. the 1st one is about the president elect a trump. mister president, you have failed to reach the objectives of your special military operations. large numbers of russians have died including a general of assassinated here. we must go this week and the lead of syria who you supported has been over simone. mister president's, when you face president elect to trump,

you will be the week elidah. how do you propose to compromise? what are you going to offer? yeah, that sounds good to me. i am ready to meet with trump at any time the. you said that this conversation will take place in a situation where i will be in some we can state list dear colleagues, interest, and i say, dear, because despite all the persecution of our press, we allow you to work in russia and you do it freely. you and those people who pay your salaries in the united states would very much like russia to be in a weakened state. or if i hold a different point of view, russia has become much stronger over the past 2 to 3 years. why? including in the readiness of our armed forces. today, i can confidently say it isn't the highest place in the world. almost all nato countries are at war with us. the internal state of the russian troops is such that perhaps no other army in the world has today. therefore, i believe that russia is largely in the state. we were striving for. it has become a truly suffering country. and i do want to finally finish on what's the me and i think for

a lot of people who saw in the school today was possibly the most touching moment of the entire event. and that was when boots and was all about how the war has positively affected him. how have you changed in the last 3 years? was nice to know which seeming yeah, you know, we only change. we change every day, every hour. i will tell you frankly, we are joking now, and there is left during the whole. i stopped a joking list and almost stopped laughing. i will say, you know, it was astonishing that was just a moment just a few seconds off that those was what that was just off to. i mean truly deafening . silence in the room that remind that was hundreds if not more of us here. and i think we will really taken aback, not necessarily if i to watch themselves from the sentiment, but by the sincerity. you know, i think we tend to humanize politicians, especially polls, heads of state we see and going out that suited them booted that we're dressing,

defense committees are addressing paul elements that speaking at concepts attempted by hundreds of thousands. we lose anyone about the fox, they all just genuinely human. at the end of the day, that sentence just a few was really i think, brought home to everyone in the room. how difficult that decision was for brought him at boots and back in february 2022. but also how fundamentally he is just a russian citizen. like the 145000000. all those who wake up and watch the news, who prays for the loved ones to come back safe and sound from the front line. he feels the sadness and the tragedy that of course, the whole country is going through at the moment. so i mean, it really was at pick that was a motion and there were a couple of, of funny moments to, and i do want to show the, even amongst their slight emotional and obviously very heavy subjects that well. so

a couple of moments of lightness to to come comes the way. it's what you say is what you are. and this is done in my opinion, out of importance. and why should we demonstrate this importance? we have enough arguments to state our position clearly. yet no, i have long built myself up to the fact that everything i have to do, i have to do with pleasure. then you don't wish that i don't think it will be necessary. just like some people from ukrainian for political leadership went abroad. he's likely to do the same. they will be taken in by the people whose he serves today. if he pops up like the devil out of the note and says, i need political asylum. russia does not do, and it's back on a new one. it's a well, that's what biden, you know, he is a politician and it's always important to consider what is more prevalent in you, the politician or the human being. it turns out that there is more of a human invite and i wouldn't blame him for that. i see it across you,

of course is the map you can see 1st of all, like any country. these are huge territories, but it's not just the territory. it's the history, the culture. these are our customs and traditions, that is old russia, but still, the most important thing is the people i see russia as a family. so that is a 2020 full press conference on the 21st, so called direct line. over an hour we are done, we stopped before and a half hours. i didn't get to ask my question, but you know what pitching has been doing this since 2001. so fingers crossed, i'll be back here in 2025. and maybe next time he'll give me a shout. well, let's valve into this topic, but of course live out to joe sally. he's a senior research for the level policy institute. george was a pleasure to see how those interested in less than a skepticism had about the arrest a missile,

but had put it suggested in june of thoughts, are you great? and the ad is less than pay does, could choosing target every perhaps key of the said i'm brentwood 5, the miss i'll see if it could be i can see hit that as well. so it wasn't joking or laying down the gauntlet. well, i think it was both. i think he was um, obviously, uh saying this in just because he doesn't really think that the here of the americans or the british are going to take him off on this also. but he was on the island. and an interesting challenge because he has made these claims about they arrest nick this up and there was very dismissive of stories published in the west the media saying, well there's nothing really special about this is kind of old stop. this is just to revive the soviet missile out. so they all and see ballistic missile

systems a more than capable of taking care of the risk. and that would, that became the consensus. so he says, okay, mine, let's have a competition. you choose, the target will hated and, you know, we'll see if you can, the into said, um, i don't think anyone's going to take him up on the challenge. but i thought it was rather funny. yeah. and they need to, you know, talk about this special now i feel right, you know, russian, you know, put this and that russian fits came boss areas of territories. daily yet ukraine worked, negotiate being, wants to have strategy in this conflict. a strategy is today what it has always been, which is to drag the nato into this rule. so it's in key of interest to rule out negotiation. it's in key is interest to stage any number of provocative

actions were obviously there was they invasion. of course, the various assassinations, the firing. it's a medium range, missiles deep into russian terror trip. oh, with a view to provoking a russian over reaction because in that of the russian over reaction can be used as a trigger for some kind of direct nato intervention on his father. oppose the still, the issue, the, the publication that we, we've been expecting and still wish to be expecting some sort of a dirty bomb sounds kind of, you know, a chemical weapons attack. we, we, we already know the americans have accused the russians ready without any evidence that they've launched the chemical weapons in ukraine. and in the, we have the assess the national security low the, the other day. so that's still on the agenda because again,

the americans insist it without any evidence that russia is using chemical weapons . and you great. yeah, yeah, it's very interesting. you know, uh, towards other inputs in sort of pointed out to the interesting detail. he puts it, is this, the, the only resolution? it is compromise and here we go with the victim that the government. now, when lights key evidence west and backers without my fha, can see that real negotiations a. well, that's a very good question in the there we have to speculate about what's of the likely course of action taken by the incoming president. donald trump. we have to believe the trump is jane you in any serious about one thing to bring this war to an end. and i would assume to that um, after january the 20th he will try to organize some kind of a piece, thoughts. now,

he will come under a lot of pressure from the ukraine law, the in the united states, and from the brain lobby in your, the european part of may so not to engage in any serious negotiations. you know, when we heard from uh, you know, call us today say, oh, we should stop any kind of pressure on you. great. no negotiation or stop, stop trying to badger him to enter into talks with russia. so there's going to be a lot more of that. so the real question is, will drum persevere in the face of this opposition or with he just give up and, and you know, just as they did in disperse themselves, now this, this is just too powerful for me. it's not worth my time. uh, i think this, yeah, very interesting data those as always, always who had more time presented with you. so thank you so much for joining us here today on our teams and i so, so sorry when a senior research fellow level policy is a duplex again. now if you miss the accent,

don't worry. we have all the highlight some a lot of input as models in q and a system on our website. p. cool. the real key of souls is lores a missile. so like on a south western russia on wednesday, most of the defense ministry says ukraine. 5, at least 6 us a pack of rough is and full british silver settlements, aldrin bombardment against the rust off legion all day of course, wouldn't save us as the details. yeah, well it took place in real star, which is a russian territory a long way from the front lines and ukrainians, fired at 6, a tech comes to me, so i was an american miss on for storm shadows, a british long range cruise missiles. now one thing that you don't hear routinely in the western media, you hear about the stikes, you hear about the escalation by supplying these weapons for use on russian therapy . would you don't hear,

but the fact that the russian air defenses con and routinely to destroy them and shoot them out of the sky on this occasion? that's exactly what happened over one of these missiles that were far at the kaminsky combine. a plant in real stalls were destroyed and they were destroyed by russian air defense systems like the ps, 400, like the book and 3 like the pumps. here, remember, russia is probably at the forefront globally of air defense systems. so uh, you know, despite this escalation, rocher kind of handled them the russian ministry of defense and said it won't go on on search. but what's also important is the fact that in the context that this comes in president savanski is in europe. the talking to a so called partners and talking about, you know, demanding and immediate entry into nato. and while the corporate a group, if you like, of the nato block of who supports them and phones and are saying, you know, we will start to be ukraine. we will continue to do so separately. things look

a little bit differently at countries like germany refusing to supply taurus at long range missiles at zalinski, which is an analog. if you look at the storm shuttle and the scope of that was forward and what the scope of the storage of that was for the rough stuff. you've got belgium refusing or enabled. it says to provide f. 16 jets for their jets to ukraine this year. and you got the police saying, look, we can supply any more aircraft, we tend to actually support with much of anything else because we're at the bottom of the bag. we can't do any more for you claim. let's have a listen to exactly what they had to say. it just shows me that we really gave what we could we support and will continue to support ukraine. nothing we all against that. that's what we can guess. let's say that we are approaching the extreme mock . it doesn't mean i see we reached the wall. we are running into a wall. we are running into a will. yeah, so as you can see here, the desperation continues the strikes essentially and effective against russian

territory that the biggest risk of them probably isn't gonna have an impact on the front lines where russia, as present improvement said today isn't advancing in meters. it's advancing in kilometers. it's probably going to be on an attempt to escalate, to get russia to lose its nerve and to do something radical in response ahead of president trump's appointment on the 28th of january. and we've had a michael carpenter, an adviser to president at a bite and saying, look, basically right now this is all up to trump. we're kind of out of the game here. and we know the president form has a very, very different view of the conflict. and you're trained, he's promised to end this very quickly. and it's really this gap now between now and january 20th, where it's key of may continue to try and escalate the military effects of which are minimal. as we can see. both the political effects hoping that russia will again break its poll ease on the bottom of truth will do something according to

their schedule is probably the biggest risk or likely, but we watch this space. and now i read the window tender from washington. the us secretary of state has acknowledges countries involvement and regime change operations in iran over the past 20 years without much since success . and i think if we look at the last 20 years, our experiments in reading change of not exactly been resolved success. so i think we have to be have a, an appropriate degree of humility in focusing in that, in that way on a problem. but are focusing on everything we need to do to effectuate policy change, stop the country from doing things that are threats to our interest as well as start start values that yes has to be front and center. lincoln mentioned how they've been added for 20 years,

but no luck with the whole regime change. good. anyone and blinking was really white. the, the west has been i, in ga, that switch and wishing change and one for more than 4 decades. i mean to shake compet wants political scene that's been a thorn in their side since they want to. washington has taken numerous shots trying to change the want in political system. the latest beings, the 2022 protests following the death of my so i mean in police custody. if we remember my so i mean he died in september 2022 after collapsing in a to one police station following get her arrest over a job long while ations washington was back then quick to jump again, expressing support for the protesters slapping more sanctions under warranty and officials, citing quote, violence suppression of protests and even openly calling for a regime change any of on refrigerators for himself,

produce our policy is policy is designed around finding practical ways to support the ronnie and people with the big deal. the illustration has with arsenal. to support the iranian people in the face of a brutal, violent crack down back then it won't highlight it for many times that for and, and western media and intelligence services launched a mis information campaign trying to steer the protesters towards vandalism and writing. so each time people stage national protest, the u. s. gets out of its bed and declares readiness to pitch in and help their want ends over told their government. so that's based on their comments. so if we want to look at this behavior, it has historical role which the west has been interfering yvonne's domestic affair since the 20th century. since he was some orchestra that a crew against it was 1st,

democratically elected fine minister in 1953. the reason because most of that at that time promised to stop western countries domination over as long as the oil resources. and he said that it was a oil needs to be indigenous and needs to be nationalized. so after that, washington supported any unrest in the country to overflow. these lot of problems if you want to push off, i've been saying that the west never abandons it's interfering habits around the world, including iran. historically, us interference. you know, ron's internal affairs has a long history interference in the course of democratization dates back to 1953 when the us orchestrate to the crew against the ron's legitimately elected prime minister. among other things, the us supported attempts of military coups and sabotage in iran, and imposed illegal and inhumane unilateral sanctions against ordinary iranians. so

one has this mentality and stance that the more pressure, the west and the west in particular imposes on it. the stronger and more resilient it becomes, it has long been reading itself against these restriction restrictions and restrictive measures by reducing its dependence on 4 and no house trying to indigenous key industries like the military sector, which iran now claims that its arms are settled, is more than 80 percent indigenous, it has also been a local, i think the oil and gas industries as the lifeline of its economy. while it's still the country has not been fully successful to fully indigenous. these industries that has built a significant with zoe is against the sanctions. that's lot. it's access to international technologies. and that's why blinking himself admitted that it's hard to destabilize the country from outside. what we've tried to do at different points