the former us ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, is also a jarabist for anti-russian sanctions. i want to tell you that i worked on sanctions together with the obama administration and we have been developing these sanctions for years, and even the financier william browder, who robbed the russian budget of billions of rubles and was sentenced to 9 years for tax evasion, was declared an international wanted list. british scammer. now hiding from russian justice. however, not misses every opportunity to make russophobic speeches. the main purpose of the sanctions is to punish russia and its citizens. browder mcfall and their companions have been trying for decades. and many did. this, being in russia as representatives of various defects, but for many years the employees of a number of foreign embassies skillfully hid behind the backs of the non-systemic opposition, which they spud and used for subversive work. however, now that the liberals are almost. in full force fled for it became difficult to hide one's russophobic views on the border, a special military operation put a lot

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representatives of western intelligence agencies looked at the light and former us ambassador to russia michael mcfallt anti-russian sanctions. i want to tell you that i worked for sanctions with together with the administrative apparatus, and we developed e.

ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst michael mcfall. retired u.s.n for the national security council. ambassador, i saw you on earlier saying that kind of the opposite point that we just made, that putin is not isolated on the world stage. he has still lots of friends in high places. but this crack with china does seem significant. tell me your analysis of it. >> of course we're just reading tea leaves about what are the public readouts, and the public readouts are not always what are said behind closed doors. but think about how that feels. let me put it more personally. hey, nicole, i have questions and concerns about your behavior. that doesn't sound friendly, does it? that's what xi jinping must have said because that's what putin paraphrased him to say. also think about that -- putin didn't have to say that. he felt that he had to say that as a way to set the stage for their bilateral meeting. second, if you read xi jinping's readout of their bilateral conversation, the word ukraine does not appear, and when you read the readout of his speech a

. >> fleeing the battlefield fleeing the floor of the u.n michael mcfall thanks so much is there a way the west can capitalize on what appears to be, i don't know, a lot of unrest in russia >> mr. putin is having a bad several weeks. he lost the beginning of the war in the battle of kyiv. he's lost this incredible setback around the second largest city so he's decided to take this very dramatic step that he promised the russian people he wouldn't do which is the mobilization lots of people don't like it thousands demonstrating. first time we've seen that since the beginning of the war, and youcan rest assured if thousands are demonstrating, tens of hundreds of thousands of russians share that view and people fleeing in any way they can causing, i think, mr. putin some real troubles at home in terms of the legitimacy of this war. >> those russian troops, michael, have suffered losses. is there any reason to think these reservists are going to be more competent without training? >> not at all. i don't think military experts i trust say exactly what you just said it will take a long time

i want to bring in former ambassador to rusia michael mcfall. good to see you.deo provided by the armed forces of ukraine. the country's military says it shows the special forces ambushing a russian military vehicle, one of hundreds captured as they have been forcing russians out. we have not independently verified that. but military experts say the equipment left behind suggests russians have been fleeing. what do you see as the state of this war right now? >> i want to start with war is horrible, and lots of people are dying. we always need to remember that. number two, these have been fantastic victories for the ukrainian armed forces. i think this is the biggest victoies since their defense of kyiv several months ago. they have captured a lot of territory and also a lot of equipment. that's key for the next part of the fight. that's the fight that they will take to donbas down to the southwest from where they are at right now. and number three, they are overextended and need to be careful not to overextend too far as they try to take the fight to donbas and

ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, an msnbc international affairs analyst.pz openly admitted that xi jingping has concerns about ukraine. help us understand how the united states is perceiving those comments. beyond shocking. >> well, i think that is right, personally, as an analyst of this relationship, he didn't have to say that, putin could have avoided saying that, he could have kept to general ties, but he chose to do so, i think it does reflect that xi jingping is not happy with his friend or partner or ally, or however you want to describe him. nobody likes losers and he is losing right now in ukraine. and if you look at the chinese readout as you were talking about, he didn't use the word ukraine. xi jingping did not use the word ukraine to talk about their bilateral meeting. so compare this summit, this cooperation organization, of the summit of autocrats and how tepid the support is for vladimir putin, compared to what nato says, and their support for ukraine, it's quite a contrast. >> what's the position that china is in right now? obviously, they

ambassador to russia michael mcfall.coming. i spoke to ukraine's top military commander in june as they were already beginning to prepare for this counteroffensive. and since then, i checked up with a lot of the military brass, defense minister, as they sort of took the steps that needed to be taken to prepare for military strike in the northeast. and i say it was a long time coming because before we actually saw in early september the frontline shift dramatically in ukraine's favor pushing the russians back toward the russian border, there were a lot of strikes preparing the battlefield. and they were using intelligence from western allies, they were using long range missiles provided by the united states to essentially weaken the russians, take out their ammunition depots, their command posts in the parts of ukraine that russia has occupied in order to weaken the lines to prepare for those attacks. and then at the very end, they began to essentially faint an attack in the south from the session you read there, it says

question, but i really wanted to hear another answer, they asked the former us ambassador to russia michael mcfall economy is actually quite powerful, it huge and therefore we do not need to have any such illusory ideas about how quickly they can work, therefore, specially, again in the sanctions regime, we left certain a such loopholes, because we did not want to harm themselves and their economy. why for example why ah hmm we left the option to buy russian a gas or russian oil, because uh, it is necessary for the health of our economy, but everything that is important for the american economy is important for the russian opposition by default. why, in fact, most of the participants in the meeting in vilnius acquired the status of agents and arguing with such a prioritization, they clearly have no reason, but in this situation, of course, they fall down and even discuss the prospects for russia's defeat attraction. i'm really sad from what part of the hall. uh, i chose a break and a coffee break. but this is evident, because there is still much more sense in coffee. in addition, it is free at the