the, the no say so i mean pub in t survive and poses as all to world. besides all of our thoughts of solution that made you see an advantage on the phone lines. more moody, is it possible to stop the facilities right now? there is a depletion of combat equipment and munition and most importantly, personnel on the part of the screening on forces. our armies moving forward to stop for the weak means to give the enemy the chance to gain a foothold from their positions. but said he called out to us for a fire tags, the 21st century jewel, visa, jazz, a name and location, a new crane. i'm bringing in any defense they want, and russell would fire his new high performing resolve to hit the button very spot

concentrate on their air defense and missile defense forces there. and we will strike there with the ocean and then see what happens. we are ready for such an experiment. is the other side ready? and that sort of questions ending his navy full on the off our, to any session. the russian president explain why he does not seem to be asked any insults abroad. look into the way to do what you say is what you are. and this is done in my opinion of importance. and why should we demonstrate this importance? we have enough arguments to state our position, clearly the liar from our international new center in last year. this is on see, welcome to the global news. i'm also sorry this out. russia doesn't need a truce. it nice, nice thing piece. i also sent you a message from platinum inputs in about the grant corporate jury is madison funeral,

a session? i mean, so i 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 the hostilities right now? there is a depletion of combat equipment, munitions, and most importantly, personnel on the part of the ukranian armed forces. army 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 i, munitions, letting people in ukraine i snatched from the streets like stray dogs. 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 families, but here they simply throw people in the firing line. we need piece, long term lasting piece with guarantees for the russian federation and you're,

it is a difficult question of how to provide these guarantees. but in general, we can look for it as for short term truces. 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 ukrainian side, we agreed at least 3 times, 2 events of this kind of shipping in the black sea and on energy infrastructure and so on. then the gun also made proposals, and suddenly the head of the ukranian regime announces no negotiations, no true. so then i called him, i say, to the gun, what's happened? he says, well, that's what our partners are like i asked or, but to he also propose the christmas truth. 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 truce, no prisoner exchange plates on st. cause what else i say, who is right at the cause of the accident during the direct line with a live event. but then she will tell 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 display 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 alt open negotiation . now caused a huge chunk of the president's was what dedicated to the conflict in 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 the document, pretend comment about the hypersonic missile edition, which was recently deployed a few weeks ago against a military industrial facility in ukraine. uh foot uh, flooding the page and it was very clear. this is a project all that absolutely has no e quote. and if you don't believe austin,

why not happened? this will say, so. you got some experts in the west believe that such imbecile is easy to shoot down. just do it 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 the 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 pitching was discussing. what ad defense is, key of has audits. disposal. he said, we need to ask all guys that what they have um, any sup diesel is. so people who want to, where does that country? oh, it's 3 missed elements. on posley i,

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 course to the late of the land as it was in is to vote during those peaceful from 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 go on to have signed with the key of each time, then tearing it up. what also cropped up was, keeps the patrons, namely those on the european continent. and the view from the kremlin seems to be on this, but they have absolute, it 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 city.

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 to, to work out everything is already clear. so 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 up with theirs with maps of the location of gas energy facility single in slovakia. so 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 end of the tech 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 very comprehensively covered the longstanding west an aptitude towards this, the world's largest nation, the most exactly. 25 years ago, boris yeltsin resigned handed over power to you and told you to take care of russia each 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 russia 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 when 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 and 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 while patting it on the back for their own purposes. nothing. now 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 have 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 shot to, to, to deal with just to get those to buy a turkey. so he's doing everything to ensure it security on its southern borders during the developments in syria to create conditions for the return of refugees free 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 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 these real. 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. actually, this is the line on the golan heights. a well known line of israel has advanced to a depth of 25 kilometers to a provocative question by the n b. c. who suggested the collapse so of assets regime on the latest subsequent cling to moscow could be considered a strategic defeat for russia. the head of state absolutely disagree. the 1st one is about the president elect to a trump. mister president, you have failed to reach the objectives of your special military operation. 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 those got them can. yes, i am ready to meet with trump at any time. you said that this conversation will take place in a situation where i will be in some we can state your 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 we can state was wondering why 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 human yet. you know, we only change. we change every day, every hour. i always tell you frankly, we are joking now and there is left during the whole. i started 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 words were, that was just off. so i mean truly deafening. silence in the room that reminds our 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 words really i think brought home to everyone in the room. how difficult that decision was to apply them. it 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 too. and i do want to show that 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 to. i don't think it will be necessary just like some people from ukrainians to political leadership went abroad . he's likely to do the same. he 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 turn it back on any one. so 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 inviting. i wouldn't blame him for that. i see its 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 that 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. for now, of course, live to save. you is a former direct sir of intergovernmental affairs of the us trade representative. steve. good to see. good to see you. anything. so don't hesitate to. they are not the same. a lot to die said to but the thought with west and the skepticism about

the rest, they miss a lot of input. this suggested a jewel of souls. ukraine is where some parent fluent painters could chairs and target area. perhaps t of that was the, the help out a rush that would find them. it's hard to see if they could hit that spot. see, was a good thing or is he laying down the gauntlet? i think he's been, you know, going to school on donald trump and, and how to properly troll the media and, and western leaders. this was, this was a trump ask kind of charles saying, i tell us where you wanted to shoot. it will shoot it and see if you can shoot it down. yeah, so it is joe king or giving a was, i know you said the top us, but all we lot seem to get a reaction from the western countries because of what he said. will the western media pick up on it? and i think the western media will pick up on it and i think that leaders in the western europe and us won't pay attention to it. but i think that the president

does not have a big reputation for being humorous in his speeches. org or interviews, but i said you can tell this one was firmly tongue planted and cheap. uh is the same like that and they though i'd say no, don't worry about the special ed feel, but right him put it inside russian foods, claim boss, areas of code 3 daily. when we say boss, we don't talk about sort of like, you know, a few meters here, feed me. does that is k, lopez's square kilometer is every single day. yeah, we don't say anything from the crew will not have a negotiating type. and 6, in your opinion, and see was key as a strategy at this point. well, the fact it gave is the still firing missiles and the rest of the territory that are being shot down by the russian defense forces shows that it's a lensky, a still trying to push a has even the talks from our present trumpet for present. putting that,

that because jason should begin, negotiations are ready to begin. a zaleski is pushing back on it that keep in mind the presence, unless the bank negotiating with russia illegal. so he's in his hands are kind of tied at this point in terms of being able to get a firm negotiation begun. i think it's still going to take some more ground being j 5 roster. i think the, unfortunately, the lots of lights and ukraine that is coming more clearly into focus, but it's not been the 40000 casualties that so the rescue has changed. it's been, it's been more close to it to a 1000000. i think things will stab you have to get much worse for ukraine before you, those ukranian people, western europe by the us or savanski himself, come to reality and decide it's time to stop the carnage. stop the loss of life and stop the loss of money and munitions. see if, you know wheel is silver about the money, but they live instead of being lost as well in ukraine. you know,

the consumption age is low and low. what does this all lead? so, you know, what i really want to know is when trouble comes in, steve, all the we likely to see more april is from trump to say, you know, that is key. look, you serve good to you. i didn't think it was a popularity of the people anymore is maybe it's time to hold elections and perhaps bring somebody else in. and then we can help, you know, perhaps because it will come to the negotiating table. otherwise, like you said, steve, he's uh, you know, is it, as he has said, that, dealing with a lot of inputs in his a legal, i mean, somebody has to change right. as well. i think, as you pointed out, the cartridge, the personal loss of lives is, is really the bigger story that, and then the loss of money that both russia and ukraine and united states and those who have funded this it suffered again we, we don't want to forget in the west that russian lives have been lost to russian.

civilian lives have been bought. a civilian lives have been lost in places like on the asking mary o bullying. and these other locations that the west still barely noticed about because of the lack of media coverage. there had been a tremendous casualties and, and it's time to recognize those and for the truth to be told in western europe and in the united states that have been covered up with a propaganda campaign that's been in place. ukraine has been tacitly claiming that they're women, and yet the reality of use something besides the different and it's time for the truth. so beautiful. yeah, indeed, steve and the, let's go back a little bit after this. direct live is q and a we just witnessed, of course, this is not the 1st time i last year. we remember covering it as well. but you know, the russian need, the right to put in. so faced loaded questions this time from the bbc and nbc doesn't know if you sold that. but a while, you know, we, we talked about it today and lots. we see these overloaded questions. there's sort

of alluded to a weak russia. what do you make or back, as well as, and how many times of western media and us media claimed that food was on his death bed. you might already be dead, and yet you see him going got toe to toe with the western journalists. the same time that the russian journalists are not allowed to report, allowed to conduct interviews with, with president bided, which would be a disaster compared to what we just saw the present to you. hopefully when president trump comes in, there will be a relaxation of, of these propaganda. the blocks that keep but you have the truth for being told about the battle field and, and certainly from those areas that the ukrainian propagandist, the only reports that we get to your western media. just, you know, blind labor feet and an impulse emphasized i thought it was particularly interesting with that. as i put in a $1.50 assassination of the russian general, i was being acknowledged by the rest of the media as some sort of

a terrorist attack or an assassination. something that by itself is a little bit unique. i think that it deep uh, pointed that out in this interview as well. again, the fact that he could do just long term open ended interview with, with a, a very bad as media shows that he is probably in charge, not only of his faculties, but his physical capabilities and is not afraid to address. even though critical media as he did in the sam. yeah. and they didn't, they say forgot the name of that. oh is a pleasure. see bill for my daughter into the affairs of the us trade representative approach as a thank you for your time and have a merry christmas mode to argue in all your listeners. thanks again. well, if you missed reactions, don't worry. we have all the highlights of a lot of inputs is math on q and a session on our website t dot com. meanwhile,

t as falls is known as a miss all, so i go on the south west and us on wednesday was advised that this. he says, you claimed 5, at least 6 us ask a tech comes real cause and full. what is the shadow of missiles during the bone bottom against the roof, the region, all st. colins, wanna shame that is, has the details. yeah, well it took place in a rock star, which is a russian territory a long way from the front lines and ukrainians for 6 attack comes me. so i was an american, this i'm for storm shadow is a british long range cruise missiles. now one thing that you don't hear routinely in the western media, you hear, but the stikes here, but 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

all. but one of these missiles that were far at the kaminsky combine plant in real stalls were destroyed and they were destroyed by russian air defense systems. like the s 400, like the book and 3 like the pun, see, or 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 defense and said it won't go on on the search. but what's also important is the fact that in the context that this comes in presidents, the lensky 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 shadow and the scout was forward and not the scope of the strong show that was for the rough stuff, you've got belgium refusing or unable. it says to provide f. 16 jets further 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. not tell me all against that that. so we can guess, let's say that we are approaching the extreme mock. it doesn't mean i see we reached the war. we are running into a wall. we are running into a, we'll do that for some folks. yeah. so as you can see, the desperation continues the strikes essentially in 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 trump has a very, very different view of the conflict. and ukraine, he's promised to end this very quickly. and it's really this gap now between now and january 20th with the key a 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 it's always good to have you with us on our team. so

i'm next, we've put together the highlights of leather and put his q and a session. and we'll be back. i will talk with you the senior rates here. how do you assess the progress of the special military operation which has been going on for almost 3 years? has victory become closer that finishes the floor? and the of course i was expecting questions of these kind to get on a lot of them and in the volume that was received over the previous days and more. i'm also grateful to you for this because it gives us the opportunity to show what is happening and what our guys are doing on the line of contact as opposed to the fighters with whom i communicate regularly, giving me all sorts of souvenirs has given me a pull, let's give me some kind of weapon. and so want to deal with and just recently,

the soldier single of the 150 feet marine brigade of the pacific fleet, or is this candid me a copy of their bottled banner? the what the yes, it's the i took it with me for this, the theater with facility met. first of all, i wanted to think the guys for this gift or 2nd. let's assume that this is the bundle of the 155th brigade of the couple fussy fick fleet. the marines slip here representing all the bucking flags of our fighters who are now fighting for russia for their homeland on the entire line of contact. i must say that the situation is radically change to it. so you know this? well, i just want to confirming that there is movement of how to follow along the front lines every day. as i have already said, we are talking about moving so not 100 meters, but 200 or 330 new our fighters are liberating 33 by the square kilometer.

i want to emphasize every single day. why is this happening? first, for the previous year, and so it is in principle such a classic culture of the development, the military which operationally is quit, not the 1st day of the enemy claims. and then he is seriously overcome in terms of equipment, munition, and personnel. then our person that would begin to move forward for that's exactly what is happening in this case. fighting is a difficult problem. seeing it is difficult to think ahead. we are moving toward solving the primary task that we outlined at the beginning of the special military operation. and you test for the guys they are working. i'm constantly talking about it and i will repeat it because there is every reason for this. they are acting here obviously the capabilities of our armed forces are increasing. i say it's a.