putin argumentative.ry. >> it's a seminal meeting in part because of the mythology that is created out of it. it's kind of like a marker being put down, i think, between two men who ultimately would find themselves in this great clash that we're in today. >> narrator: biden would write about the moment in his autobiography. >> it was long and contentious. putin was ice-cold calm throughout, but argumentative from the start to finish. >> well, i was there with,ith then-vice president biden. the message that, that he's sending is, um... "let's not, um, we're not here to kid each other. we need to speak clearly, we need to speak directly." >> "i'm looking into your eyes," i told him, smiling. "i don't think you have a soul." he looked at me for a second and smiled back. "we understand each other," he said. and we did. >> when biden said that to me, i hadn't heard it before, and my immediate reaction was, "this sounds like a movie line. is that what really happened?" and he said, "absolutely, positively. that

look at how five american presidents confronted putin. >> president putin simply speaks mistruth afterh and tries to misinform, t he does it as easily as he breathes. >> narrator: leading to a dangerous new conflict with the west. >> if russia is allowed to get away with this, it affects the entire international order. >> narrator: now on frontline "putin and the presidents." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism... the john d. and catherine t macarthur foundation committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues... the heising-simons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity and possibilities. at hsfoundation.org. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major suppo from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging c

i think that putin's goals have changed and now he just wants to survive.ave to end our conversation with another one. i am grateful to the ambassador for this extremely meaningful and interesting conversation, and i want to remind our tv viewers that matthew bryza worked for them on the espresso tv channel. ex-adviser to the secretary of state of the united states, former director of european and eurasian affairs at the us national security council thank you very much, ihor yakovenko, a sociologist, ex-deputy of the state duma, is now joining our broadcast he is currently in exile. kudos to ukraine, mr. igor. i congratulate you as a hero of the word, good student. the head of the russian federation urgently went to volgograd for the anniversary of the battle of stalingrad, which was urgently renamed stalingrad and even installed a bust of stalin there. we understand that it may not have any specific military consequences or any specific decisions that putin will make in this regard, but this very clearly outlines putin's stalinist trajectory of vision of t

, putin, you have ruined our lives .be able to live like this, we used to live like this. you are destroying the reputation of russia. i constantly hear about this state of affairs from various people, even from heads of state, so i think that there is a deep awareness of how much the problem that putin found himself in is serious. that is why i took such a tough position in this interview, which i already said in response to your previous question. i think that putin's goals have changed and now he just wants to survive. ambassador for this extremely meaningful and interesting conversation, and i want to remind our tv viewers that matthew bryza, ex-adviser of the secretary of state of the united states, former director of affairs, worked for them on the air of the espresso tv channel europe and eurasia in the national security council of the united states thank you very much igor yakovenko, a sociologist ex-deputy of the state duma, currently on migration, is joining our broadcast. glory to ukraine , mr. igor. i congrat

does is not like guitars i think that comparing hitler with putin is complimenting putin because putinp because all that is not what the wind did, the wind was able to modernize germany, the wind created a huge economy in germany and built a huge army on this basis, behind hitler there was a huge economy, one of the largest economies in europe , putin is worth nothing big bubble of course he has oil and gas there, he can do some of these things because i don't, but if you want to know the level of poland in the hryvnia of russia, then this huge country reaches according to its own volume of the pdr pdf only to spain and by the standard of living, even portugal can find out. we are very important, that is, something a little different here, because, uh, how to say what is being said now, one of the features of the modern way after the defeat of hitler is that the war in the first world, the first world, we are with ourselves more fought france and germany germany lives now the opportunity to imagine a war between france and germany begins between germany and poland wars emigrated to the

putin cannot be tamed.e defeated, and this victory must be complex, of course, military, but complex so that the entire essence of this regime and this empire is reloaded . there are absolutely no other options, especially when 130 or 140 million of these little putins to whom he addressed today. then he started his speech today and for about 40 minutes he spoke exclusively about ukraine . the first 40 minutes, then he was already there. they gave some information about social projects. by the way. he is going to build roads, well, they can't invent anything, it's all borrowed in ukraine, roads are going to be built because there are only directions, days in russia, but what did putin say putin said that the west turned the economic front, he forced the russians are suffering like this, the agents of russian sanctions, we will hear putin against us, not only the military information front, but also the economic front, but nothing has been achieved anywhere, and the russian sanctions will not be achieved - t

, they look through putin for over his shoulder, they look at the future where putin will not be, i thinkstalingrad that will lead to serious and complete defeat of the russian-fascist troops. i think that the federal power will be so weakened that it is already putin and his so-called second support of the number of the federal service . this empire will collapse , which has very strong internal central tendencies, and this is also known . the war for the division of russia will continue to tear russia to pieces. stupid is beautiful within russia. that's why this scenario is presented. well, at least probably, but there is another such scenario, which is called entanglement with the führer, and the competition for access to the body begins, respectively, the competition for the right to nominate certain possible successors, in particular, we see how medvedev has revived now , he tries on some french clothes and writes some nonsense , you know, well, people don't write like that from bodun , but still, he is still being expelled , and there is, as it were, a strengthening of the patrusov

where will putin be?sult of a serious military defeat, as a result of such the ukrainian stalingrad, which will lead to a serious and complete defeat of the russian-fascist troops. i think that the federal power will be so weakened that putin's m. war the war for the division of russia russia is ready for disintegration, this is an empire that has very strong internal central tendencies, and that is why it is ephemeral the war for the division of russia will tear russia to pieces after this war hinduitsya there is a view of the war they hinduitsya she will go to stupid russia within russia that's why vot takoy takoy scenario is presented well, at least probably , but there is another such scenario called entwined near the führer and accordingly the competition for access to the body begins , accordingly the competition for the right to nominate those or other possible next ones that are mentioned in particular, we can see how lively medvedev is now , so he tries on some french, then he writes some nonsens

what is orban, what is putin, what is putin, what do they all have?self with trajectory, they come to power in a country that is in anarchy, a fast has started, and when there is a very strong force in society for the expulsion of someone strong, someone will come and not maintain order, and they carry out order, and it must be said that the minimum order begins to work, because really things are they are getting better, the economy is rising like this, everything else, what else do you know, suddenly society feels better than it was before, but here, you know, there is a situation like a magician's apprentice, who can't hire representatives from a bottle, because after the increase in the level life so far, life is spent until the emergence of the creative middle class, and these cells are difficult, just want to use , want to go abroad, he wants to have freedom of speech, i do not want to express myself, it is very important, and you have this creative class everywhere, which is starting to speak out, and almost everywhere we see that in china that

and flew to moscow and, er, in the usual manner for him, he communicated with putin, because putin said that well he didn't know if lukashenko would come, he answered , "how could i not come if you called and so on?" the russian-ukrainian war, although we remember that on february 24, 2022, belarus was used as a springboard for the offensive of russian troops on the territory of ukraine, and we remember how planes flew from the territory of belarus and then struck the territory of ukraine, in particular, on chernihiv and on in other cities, what do you think about your cities? what do you think, considering the state and the situation, stones are being thrown in belarus, and what's more, putin is always trying to corner the self-proclaimed president of belarus. what do you think? he will be able to do it in the coming days, because i understand that putin has basically no more allies left. well , at the moment, there are no major negotiations with china, but they are behind the scenes, but publicly there is lukashenko, who said that uh ukraine has not yet russia attacked ukraine what uk

it certainly is so just going back to putin the man and putin, the myth, i mean, he you know, we know these stories about putin who, you know, talks about the rat that is in a corner and that rat is the most dangerous. and so now all of us here in washington are like, oh, my, you know, is putin the rat? and is most dangerous now because he's kind of cornered. can you talk a little bit about these myths that have been established. you know, i recall that when i was working for the government you know, we would have to remind ourselves that just just remember, the russians aren't ten feet tall, that all of myths out there, you know, putin riding, you know, with a bear chest on a big old horse, you know, somebody so, so powerful and so and yet somehow, even as we kind of made fun of that, we were buying that myth. now. so the rat story is a good one. and my friend bob here somewhere, he's always point out to me that the rat story's ambiguous because the you know, our telling of the rat story, he's, you know, he's running around the apartment building where he grew up and he's chasing rat

[000:00:00;00] it means that as you can see, macron stopped saying that let's save face for putin. he says yes , i will continue to talk to putin, but here are all these phrases that annoyed not only us, er, half the world, that let's save face, let's understand, let's do something like that for ourselves . they still followed macron's lexicon recently. i am absolutely sure that macron will continue to want to move the situation to the point of holding negotiations with putin, but for us the key change that you say is that this conversation cannot proceed from the terms of capitulation, which exactly put forward by putin at the beginning and that the conditions should be set by us, that is, a collective measure to which, as he has already said, today ukraine belongs , but in this there is clearly a change, which is not yet final, but, well, a change in macron's attitude to reality, and we see that i have also become more to believe in ukraine and ukrainians, he understands that despite the challenges , despite the challenges of winter, despite the attacks on our critical infrastruc

the level of anna politkovskaya can be killed only one person is putin, the moral values ​​that putin many years of rumors about mistresses and the subsequent divorce from his wife by the kind-hearted putin began to surface more and more new facts of adultery of the first person of the russian federation, the ivanovs, met putin in the late 90s, and in 2003, according to the edition of the project , gave birth to his daughter elizaveta. well, in general normal in the country, 20 million beggars buy a yacht for their lover. come on, a yacht and a yacht and apartments with crooked legs look like a trifle compared to the content of the famous gymnast and woman with the most incomprehensible status in russia, olina kabaeva. i think it will not be surprising if i say that they are all i like it, but that's not all . the investigation of the same ex-intelligence officer litvinenko about putin's strange inclinations back in 2006, in his article he accused the russian president of pedophilia, these footage shocked many people have a very unusual desire to kiss a strange little boy on the stoma

they don't just say putin is bad there, they start calculating. and who can replace putin ?nd what could be the situation in the country if putin leaves ? and that is why they are already starting to count. what, for example, is putin's alternative, it is not a liberal western government at all, it could be much worse, by the way, it is not quite good for ukraine, not only because we do not want to have such a terrible regime, and also because the west does not take too radical measures against russia in order not to want an even worse government to come to power under putin, and they are really worried that if russia disintegrates, russia will then consist of such mini- countries, each of which will be headed by prigozhin, who will still have nuclear weapons, so we must also understand the logic behind which the west works and unfortunately, we must understand that in russia there is no alternative to putin that would be pro-western, that would create an alternative to the current regime, so that succeeded b finally an understanding of the fact that russia is developing as

becoming putin's russia but increasingly becoming putin's russia but increasingly becoming putin's russia but the point is after putin there will be the point is after putin there will be the point is after putin there will be an option opportunity to redefine it and an option opportunity to redefine it and an option opportunity to redefine it and if russian history tells us anything if russian history tells us anything if russian history tells us anything it is first of all that actually it is first of all that actually it is first of all that actually authoritarianism is not in the national authoritarianism is not in the national authoritarianism is not in the national dna there is constant resistance to it dna there is constant resistance to it dna there is constant resistance to it but secondly after periods of particular but secondly after periods of particular but secondly after periods of particular authoritarianism authoritarianism authoritarianism inevitably we then get thaws and that's inevitably we then get thaws and that's inevitably we then get thaws and that's what i'm looki

and this means that, as you can see, macron has stopped saying that let's save putin's face . he says yes, i will continue to talk with putin , but here are all these phrases that were annoying only us, uh, half the world, what, let's save face, let's understand , let's do something like that to ourselves, or her for macron's lexicon , after all , lately they have left. negotiations with putin, but for us the key change is that you say that this conversation cannot proceed from the capitulation conditions that putin put forward from the very beginning and that we must set the conditions, that is, the collective measure to which , as i have already said, ukraine belongs today , but this is unambiguous a change that is not final yet, but a change in macron's attitude to reality, and we see that he also began to believe more in ukraine and ukrainians, he understands that despite the challenges, despite the challenges of winter, despite the blows to our critical infrastructure ukrainians are becoming just as ready to resist nothing has changed in our feelings and in our feeling an

moscow and talked to putin in the usual manner for him, because putin said that he didn't know if lukashenkaould come, he answered that how could i not come if you called and so on before that we saw how lukashenko tried to avoid direct questions of the kremlin's direct proposals regarding the participation of the armed forces of the republic and belarus in the russian-ukrainian war, although we remember that on february 24 , 2022, belarus was used as a springboard for the offensive of russian troops on the territory of ukraine and we remember how airplanes flew from the territory of belarus and then launched rocket attacks on the territory of ukraine, in particular , on chernihiv and other cities . putin is always trying to corner the self-proclaimed president of belarus. do you think he will be able to do this in the coming days , because i understand that putin has basically no allies left? well, at the moment, there are no big ones. negotiations with china is there, but they are behind the scenes, but in public there is lukashenko, who said that it is ukraine, that russia did not attack

he did not trust putin. >> reporter: ten years after his initial warnings about putin, biden, as vicece with putin in moscow. biden told a journalist that he said to putin during that 2011 encounter, quote, i'm looking into your eyes and i don't think you have a soul. biden claimed putin smiled and replayed, quote, we understand one another. putin later said he didn't remember that exchange. and analysts say biden hasn't always gotten the putin portfolio exactly right. >> during the obama administration, biden was given the charge for that along with secretary of state hillary clinton. >> reporter: obama, his vice president, and secretary of state, famously tried to hit the reset button with putin's regime. but by 2013, the relationship was so bad that the two men could barely look at each other during a meeting in northern ireland. then came russia's invasion of crimea, and its intervention in syria during obama's watch. >> i think obama had a much more difficult time with him, trying to maybe understand where he's coming from, but failing in the end. >> reporter: obama's successor t

would he be sideline up to vladimir putin like he didn't helsinki when he took putin side over the nationalecurity communities elated states? more likely than not. i think there's some basis to believe that the reason why putin held out is that he hoped that trump would get reelected and would hand him ukraine on silver platter, which he might well have done. but even the critics of president biden have to acknowledge that he not only had a showing of american resoluteness but he has stitched together indeed alliance that is tighter, stronger, and broader to new potential members tornado that we ever thought possible. nato has not expanded in a long time, and thanks to vladimir putin and to president biden, it is a more resolute, it is a brighter and stronger alliance. you see government sometimes reluctantly but nevertheless you see germany reconsidering its very pacifist policy and grudgingly, at first, but increasingly going along with supplying the ukrainians. you've also seen a commitment in europe, which we have not seen in decades, to try to de-link themselves from russian fuel, from

loves putin sincerely and likes it putin's style of action should be loved.there, but this once again shows that all these people have not changed. this is all the pro-russian european lobby in general in western politics. they are just waiting for their time. you and i understand perfectly what we are saying. these people took money for putin. bronzo scorini is not one of those people who took money from putin from the point of view of mafia, he himself is putin, only italian, billions of dollars, a huge career, after all, age, he could already calm down somehow, i don't mean you want from the political point of view activity but from the point from the point of view of supporting evil because at such an age a person should think about his biography about an article in the encyclopedia that also no he needs to serve and this is absolutely obvious and he still internally believes that putin cannot lose if he started to act and this is also a mistake i am very surprised what happened to the school, a person who was brought up in the free world believes in the

for joseph biden's speech in moscow, meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin delivered his speechthe federal assembly. the vector of further development, well, it should be like this ideally, but last year, putin did not speak with a message, he last did it in april 2021 last year - this event was postponed several times, probably in the kremlin, they were waiting for this good informational excuse, as political scientists say, obviously putin i expected to time this speech to some significant success on the battlefield in ukraine, although success did not happen, but today the theme of the war, which in russia is called theirs, was central during putin's speech, on the other hand, we did not hear anything new putin once again stated that it was ukraine, allegedly conquered by the west, that started the war against russia and that the kremlin allegedly began to use force to stop the war. the speech lasted almost two hours before biden's speech. the speech lasted half an hour. we carefully looked at putin's speech, listened to it for you and now we will tell you the main to accuse

>> what would it take for esident putin to stop the war?he has to be convinced that he can't win. right now he believes he can win . he can accomplish the goals of the special military operation because he has a long time horizon. putin can't just decide i'm not going to run for reelection in 2024, i'm going to retire to my billion-dollar palace. he's going to double down until he is convinced that there is no way he can win. i'm not sure how significant the battlefield setbacks have to be for him to reach that point but he is nowhere near that today. he doesn't think the special military operation has succeeded, he is rational. he understands what happened in 2022. he understands the geographic gains the ukrainian armed forces accomplished. these undertakings from his perspective take a long time. he has a long time horizon. and a vision for what he wants to accomplish that he will not surrende easily. >> when you say a long time, what do you mean? >> it's not this year. beyond that, don't know. vladimir putin doesn't want offramp. if you

vladimir putin had the same view of ukraine. they were going to be able to demilitarized ukraine on the cheap, in a sense. it was well, they thought, within their capabilities to do so. he was profoundly wrong and it has resulted in an enormous adverse strategic consequences from russia which i am happy to discuss. the sense i got from putin's address yesterday, part of it, jill and i talked about this on a georgetown podcast yesterday and i will credit her for the phrase. it was sort of a sense of fortress russia. those business leaders and oligarchs who made lots of money and bought yachts and townhouses in the west. russian business leaders, you have to come back and invest, and we have to develop our russian economy, russian industry, and russian technology. he said at the outset of the special military operation that western sanctions and export controls were not going to cut off russia from the west, and from the global economy. now, he is taking a different tack and saying russia as a great power and country needs to isol

vladimir putin seems to believe that time is not on the ukrainian side.believes that if he throws the russian way of war mass at the problem, poor boys from dagestan that are cannon fodder, he'll wear ukrainians down, he'll wear us down, he'll wear the europeans down. i don't think that's right. but we have to do everything that we can to convince him it is, indeed, wrong. >> russia invaded georgia in 2008. >> yes. >> at at time, and i was reading the cables, you and bill burns were going back and forth whether ukrainian joins nato and that crosses that red line for vladimir putin. do you think now after all these years of waiting ukraine should be allowed into nato? >> that's going to be a hard lift because of the article 5 and an attack on one is an attack on all of nato. i do think that what we've seen is that ukraine is de facto a very strong ally of nato and vice versa and i expect that's going to continue because i think some form of security arrangements with ukraine will be necessary in the future and it's probably good to start working on that no

all about these things and uses people who are as similar as possible to putin putin and they are usedsecurity services precisely to enable attempts on him or let's say yes, getting some kind of, let's say , viral disease, which can undermine the already weak state of health of the russian dictator, er, when we talk about the actions of the russian army, the russians destroyed our the civilian population, let's remember bucha irpin, there on the dnipro, any cities where weapons are actually used to destroy children and women and civilians. and actually, the main directorate of intelligence even regularly prepares lists of these russian military units, including the russian officers who are involved to certain crimes, on the one hand, we talk about what we are doing there. we are preparing it for international tribunals, hoping for the international legal practice of punishment for such crimes in times of war, but there is also another part of people who believe about the fact that we should resort to active actions and demonstratively punish those russians, those military commanders in

macron plans to go to beijing and does not call putin, scholz does not call putin and lukashenko, allegedly a faithful vassal of putin, says that we will be possessed suddenly, the support of the world community and beijing is not moscow, he says, which won all the weapons already from the territory of belarus for this criminal war, but to beijing and this is an explanation of why we are talking about china today because it is becoming in reality one of the players in this in this in this war, mr. taras , i have a question for you please tell me why this has changed why yes it has changed why europe has not is calling why did lukashenko rush to beijing and where is moscow now ? please explain when this change happened. i think that everyone can understand when this change happened, please mr. taras. actually, this change happened after the west saw that ukraine stands and ukraine stands in in this war, ukraine can be supplied in principle with absolutely all types of weapons that we need for victory, and we will use these weapons as effectively as possible, and likewise well, if against thi

that is the path russia has been going down under putin's leadership, but this really exceeds putin. that is the choice they have made. host: before vladimir putin called up hundreds of thousands of additional troops, there were a lot of questions about how russian society would react to that, whether he was holding off doing that out of fear of a larger pushback from russian civilians. in your mind, how do you think that went? was there much pushback when it happened? guest: i think there were a lot of expectations that russian society would pushback on this invasion. however, in the 12 months, we have learned, the thing that really shapes the russian domestic information space, causes russian society to react, is unfortunately not even russian casualties, not russian atrocities in ukraine, it is russian setbacks on the battlefield. we have seen them react when russia was forced out of the kiev access. host: what is that? guest: when russia lost the battle of kyiv, forced out of western and northern regions of ukraine. second, when russia suffered some very embarrassing defeats in e

would you trust vladimir putin? they told us days before the invasion they not only were not going to do it, they had no plans to do it. they lied to the world. how can anybody trust that government? so, it is a huge challenge, particularly for a country, if i may, i work in a brief point on new start. constraining a country that has those imperial ambitions backed by the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world the new start treaty, of which president putin announced russia is suspending its participation, limits strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems. but russia has developed the largest stockpile of non- strategic nuclear weapons in the world. in fact, there is no transparency to say how many non-strategic nuclear weapons they have despite requests from the u.s. this is an addendum to my opening remarks but it is important. putin tacks on at the end of his remarks a paragraph on new start. there is both more and less than meets the eye. there is less because the russians have already suspended th

but this may change and putin understands. if he starts winning, the situation will become much safer for him. it is why he is so active and trying and take partial victors like in the don's creation. if putin wins, this will have the elite around him. he will become more dangerous the world and our own country. there is no space for people. people give him attention. he is more criminal, but no one respects him. but putin relies in the potential of the threat of himself from discontent of the elites. it evens the terminal, and builds a state. i do not know if you know this word [foreign language] it is a state of terror. the most famous are -- a lot -- [foreign language] another low in another state. this is putin's message. hello guys, i have other people besides you. be careful i have them. about christmas, this is just one of the manifestations of his ways. it was a message to the leaders of the west. look, i am peaceful. i do not want to the war. so the ukrainians just fear. they will show a sphere. -- fear. nobody trusts

it is not directed at president putin, but president putin will hear him.aine against this invasion from the russians, and it'll continue. it'll continue as long as it takes and i hope he says as long as it takes, until victory. that will be the message for president putin directly. >> jill doherty, you have covered president putin for, what? 20 years plus? and i wonder if you heard anything different from him this morning than you expected. >> you know, i wouldn't say it was very different. i mean, all of the criticism of the west was exactly what he said kind of in one place, you know, they're disgusting, he used the word cheating, hypocritical, disgusting, but i think what i did pull away from it is that he is bringing russia back to the soviet days, and what i mean by that is he is bringing the society back, everything that he described was government control and government all-important. young people need possibilities and programs. it was very much a soviet idea. it was one idea where he said, we're producing x numbers of tons of this, and i thought i

trump trusted putin. tucker should work for putin. putin is the real nazi.e invaded many countries. on record. in europe. just like hitler's did in world war ii. host: this is terry in north carolina. republican. go ahead. caller: good morning. if you're a democrat that voted for joe biden, remember he is the one that called for regime change in russia. i would like to hear from democrats and know how well did it work in afghanistan? iraq? libya? syria? joe biden started this war. if joe biden were to look in the mirror today the reflection would be dick cheney. host: that is terry in north carolina. this is today's washington post. "what a year of war has revealed about three different leaders." those leaders, loaded near zelinski, joe biden, and vladimir putin. he writes who could have imagined that a ukrainian comic actor could prove to be the first truly heroic reader -- heroic leader of the 21st century. who would bet that vladimir putin would grossly miss read intelligence and history and ransom his country in what amounted to a fairytale about the one

we heard from putin's statement. what's new? well, probably a little less than nothing . an insidious measure is trying to destroy russia. no, there are nazis in ukraine. ukraine historically belongs to russia. russia is trying to free the people of ukraine from these neo-nazis. what did he not say? for example, there were a lot of expectations about what he would say about the successes of the special military operation . of the kremlin and military accounts in telegram. for example, i see that they are not very impressed by such a speech. well, anti-western rhetoric in general is so characteristic of the kremlin, and from your observations, which audience was this speech focused on, was it aimed at the internal or after all at external well, actually, how are these statements perceived in russia? i think they are intended for both western and russian audiences , and then i talked about why this special military operation began, why it should continue, and well, he had already almost well, excused himself for what is happening in ukraine, and the main point of the west i

putin tried to starve the world.lock ing the ports and the blak sea to stop ukraine from exporting its grain, exacerbating the global food crisis that hut developing nations in africa especially hard. instead, the united states and the g7 and arter ins around the world answered the call with commitments to address the crisis and to bolster global flod supplies. this week, my wife jill biden is traveling to africa to help bring attention to this critical issue. our commitment is to the people of ukraine and the future of ukraine, a ukraine that's free, sovereign and democratic. if i were to dream those who declired dependence more than 30 years ago who led the orange revolution and the revolution of dig anythingty, who braved those who died there. for those who continue to root out kremlin's efforts to corrupt, coerce and control. it's a dream for those patriots who fought for years against russia's aggressions in the donbas. and the heroes who have given their lives to the service of their beloved ukraine. i was hono

at the smell of vladimir putin's speech before the federal assembly in the russian federation , what he say there? well, i'll tell you briefly putin lied, medvedev slept everything as usual, uh, failed, neither one nor the other, one spoke in the match, well, the other somewhere in the middle of the speech of his friend and partner vladimir putin, as usual, already fell asleep with sheepish eyes, valentina matvienko was sitting, some such activity, dynamism , tried to solve the head of their opinion , well, actually as always , we will talk about what putin said, but the topic of our conversation today will be the anatomy of the russian rebellion, and for some reason the wall of razin appears in rap . in fact, we always talk about what we we are waiting for a riot in russia, on the one hand, we are not waiting, on the other hand, we are waiting, because we understand that the mind of russia cannot be measured by a yardstick of understanding in russia , we can only believe that there is something special in this country. will happen or russia, it is not foreseen and not predicted, and

putin stands up.the safety sycophants instead of a war zone. seems bigger than a football field. you talked about biden yesterday that it reminded you of jfk and reagan and berlin. that is how we'll look back on this moment, isn't it? >> absolutely. these are presidents who won't to the edge of europe and said we are here, strong, standing with allies whether it was kennedy saying ich bin ein berliner. you will listen again to joe biden saying kyiv stands. democracy stands. in the exact same way because this was a sign of an alliance that many thought was on the ropes. right? that is back and stronger than ever. >> your op-ed in "the daily beast" talked about the ultimate humiliation for vladimir putin and said donald trump. i will say while i don't really want to talk about him in this moment, it is hard not to remember. we have jonathan lemire who asked the question in 2018 at helsinki whether he trusted u.s. intel officials or ex-kgb agent and chose the ex-kgb agent. hard not to contrast that and w

prospects for putin's army on the territory of ukraine.ecause poorly trained mobs and equipment which was in storage for 30-40 years. and although there today they are trying to quickly bring vlad there, but this is to provide the desired result, first of all , because of what is in service today artillery with a large radius of action, in fact, this makes it impossible for russia to carry out a not so necessary or long-awaited next offensive there, because any approach to the line of collision of the ammunition reserves of the khmelnytsky potential immediately falls into the zone of achievement or defeat of our long-range artillery, and these things today are are really decisive for creating the conditions for further conditions for successful counteroffensive actions by ukraine and the liberation of its territory. and in your opinion, does the enemy draw any conclusions at all from his previous actions miscalculations on the battlefield or is he somehow trying to improve by doing some things that will make him more effective or is the sy

.- putin's speech.tin's speech. so how significant you - putin's speech. so how significant you think i putin's speech. so how significant you think it| putin's speech. so howl significant you think it is that putin mentioned eventual —— potentials suspending of the nuclear arms agreement? the current agreement _ nuclear arms agreement? tue: current agreement extends nuclear arms agreement? tte: current agreement extends all the way through the beginning of 2026 and his suspension is less dramatic than it sounds, but still it's concerning in the sense that it's the last remaining arms control agreement between us due to the abrogation of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty and the open skies treaty. so it is concerning, barthe, as i said, i think it shows desperation on his part and his attempt to use any tool at his fingertips to try to influence the us and the west from supporting ukraine in the strong where we have in the past year. 50 the strong where we have in the ast ear. ., i. the strong wher

i think that after putin leaves, the situation in russia will be absolutely better than with putin.. those who will be after putin will have to change the country, will have to start negotiations with the west, and it will be a different russia. tikhon dzyadko, i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from riga. thanks a lot. thank you so much. hello there. strong solar activity brought spectacular sightings of the aurora borealis during sunday night into the early hours of monday morning. the strongest aurora was across scotland, but unusually, the aurora borealis could be seen as far south as wiltshire and 0xfordshire, and one of the reasons being clear skies. in fact, temperatures really fell away quite sharply, as low as low as —8 in highland scotland, but even —6 in parts of 0xfordshire. now, it does look likely that we are going to see more cloud, and so maybe the aurora not quite as prominent as we go through the next few hours. high pressure withers, but a northeasterly flow is drifting in a lot of cloud off the north sea, so that'll prevent temperatures from falling too f

, putin, not every russian - it is putin who destroyed peace in europe and that is why we believed ince and did not collect ammunition waste, we did not produce it because we did not think that war would start again in europe. this is the root of the problem. ugh in our warehouses. now we have resumed production, in particular in germany . we want to increase the production of ammunition for cheetah installations, in particular until june until july, there are several countries in the world that have ammunition for these specific installations, we ask them to support us by providing their weapons and their ammunition while we are making our own

putin.saying what he always says is that the west is to blame for the war, the west is to blame, the west should comply with russia's demands that russia is forced to protect its security , the former nato went to russia's borders . china to the aggressors look at the nato bases, they got closer to russia. look, the american bases got closer to china. look, the american bases are much more sportsman will say, but i am against peace. no, he will say that we are possible , then when the west has now understood its destructive role, well, let's see. i even in i don't doubt that, well, let's see, we will have an opportunity to find out about it , we have literally two minutes left, and if you also showed us the stopwatch in your computer , you have exactly two minutes left. we were once told that it was two minutes and they turned off the timing, which we rely on when we run the program so that nothing gets out. just talk about these one and a half minutes, because we will hardly have time to an

well, it is also obvious that the same offensive of putin's army that is currently taking place is that he invests completely in that window of opportunity, which we will now and then say somewhere closer to the middle of march, maybe until the end of march, then they will have a certain time to attack our position. well, the ukrainian army will use the same time to reduce the military potential as much as possible of putin's army by destroying enemy equipment and enemy personnel, it is obvious that , among other things, rammstein will consider the issue of the m-m air component or will directly consider deliveries of f16 or a there will be enough of the tenth stormtroopers, i don't know, but i think closer to the 17th , maybe to the 18th. today we will receive, therefore, at least a part of the open e-e release based on the results of the ninth rammstein well, if not, then this issue will be discussed e-e today as well under during the meeting of the defense ministers of the northern practical alliance, i think that this is extremely important, because it is obvious that without e that