, 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

putin cannot be tamed.ed 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 small putin , to whom he addressed today. putin started his speech today and for about 40 minutes spoke exclusively about ukraine . the first 40 minutes, then he was already there. they they shared some information about social projects. by the way, he is going to build roads. well, they can’t invent anything. they are borrowing everything in ukraine. roads are going to be built because there are only the directions of russia’s days. but what did putin say? putin said that the west turned the economic front and made the russians suffer. sanctions, we will hear from putin, as i have already said, the west has turned against us not only the military information front, but also the economic front, but nothing has been achieved anywhere, and it will not be achieved, i a

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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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

>> 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

, 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

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.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

for me , it is obvious that the death of a thorn is a needle for putin.this is the ukrainian crimea under the ukrainian flag. sevastopol is the end of putin's of the regime precisely because the regime is similar to the regimes similar to putin's stand for my film, mythology is a necessary part of the dictator's entourage, this is not his fallibility, his ability to lead the people, and our crimea. it will become obvious that the war is lost . but in fact, many people think that uh, and once again it means that we will press that we have half a million reservists and that's it. we will definitely win there, but as soon as it becomes clear that the war has been lost, that western armaments, the heroism of ukrainian soldiers, the political leadership of zelenskyi and his team give results, that's when it seems to me the building will begin to crumble very quickly, and what is interesting is that it will begin to crumble, because so far i can only see an increase in the pressure on me, on the walkers, when people are simply pushed out, squeezed out of their

well, but god be with him, this is the historical memory that putin shows , to which putin appeals, buthistorically it is very difficult, because since and catherine ii and then many of the russian figures up to the 20th century, when the ukrainian chronicles were burned in the vernadskyi library, the chronicle monuments were destroyed, therefore it was very easy to write, rewrite and create the history that russia wanted for itself, but less so and now i would like you to ask so, from the first p oleg p oleg, i will ask if we have 15 minutes left. i want us to go to our company's finish line now, although this is a very, very fruitful topic , we can talk for a long time and i am very interested in talking and discussing with you to some extent and i want to take your opinion on what potential putin has now to achieve something and what potential ukraine has to resist and destroy what putin came with, and i will say it like this. and please, please express your opinion olezhe, please understand very much we discuss a lot of topics at the same time, what potential putin has, unfortunatel

president had to push back against putin's narrative.e could not let it stand, this claim that nato is to blame, that it wants to destroy russia. and i think it was important for him to try to convey this message to the russian people, that this is not true, that putin could end the war immediately if he wanted to. brent: ines, before we go, let me ask you about how this continues with the u.s. president. we know yesterday he was in kyiv, today, this speech, but there are still more business to be taken care of, isn't there? ines: right. so, the two highlights are kind of over, but there is another important meeting, the so-called the bucharest format which will meet tomorrow where he meets with nine countries from the eastern nato flank. and there is some expectation that he then finally will announce to send heavier weaponry to prevent the war to turn into a stalemate, because that was somewhat of a disappointment not only in kyiv, but also today in warsaw. some, or actually many people in this part of the world do hope that the u.s. d

, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

he says that he supports putin's position. the majority of the world's population.l, let's hear volodin. vadimcha putina and the construction of a multipolar, just world. i already mentioned at the beginning of the program that putin's address is scheduled for next week annual message to the federal assembly of the russian federation, this message was supposed to take place at the end of 2022, but it did not happen. because putin wanted some victories , now the russian propaganda media, in particular , russian television, says that in this message putin will almost declare war on nato, well, at least yesterday i watched about bandit channels, they are very actively torpedoing this topic that russia can state that the state of war in which russia de facto is not with ukraine, but with nato, as they say and that there will be some solutions that will allow russia to put everyone in their place . what do you think, will the next week be decisive in the confrontation between the civilized world and the horde ? question, because here volodya will touch on everyone and ex

when it comes to putin, is he alone?know, and there are people who are a typical type, you know. of a family rapist who beats his wife, children, abuses them, comes o-o-o drank this or that vodka, i'll drink all of them here, then it means he wakes up at nine o'clock in the morning and spilled that he was already 3 hours late for work. worth it as it is i'll do it i'll do it all i'll do it now i'll do it i'll do it just don't overtake me, that's the kind of guy well, that's all and uh, taking into account the soviet situation with lukashenko, he just came from there, that 's why i'm not surprised, and by the way, he's putin, he doesn't answer and remembers as a rule, a person who comes to the secretary of the port com and you say well thank you thank you sasha что зашёл ога and i could not go in one how did they release well that's all and why does lukashenko go to the seat i think sisin-pin is still such a strong leader geopolitical player is important well, who such is lukashenko. lukashenko is the president , the self

of course , putin has become a good person. victor, i'm good, putin is dead putin. well, that's how ours with him has such a small cemetery, because his entire retinue is basically the same, and those people who are shouted at, let's give lower ukraine, like that, that military soldier with medals, it's interesting with not for what he is he took those medals and said that they should be destroyed, just a cue. if you just level it with the ground so that there is a ruin, and put the russian flag on top because kyiv has russian cities. well , there is one medal for participation in 150 solovyov programs. a medal for the killing of thousands of syrian children, they give another order. well, they give a little bit of it, and they are going to do what is next for embezzling a billion rubles there, for example, financing the army, and another medal, so, so, so, absolutely, yes, it’s possible for this, it’s possible, what’s our next guest uh mykhailo gonchar, expert on international energy and security relations, president of the center for global studies, strategy 21 ,

washington repeatedly crossed many of the red lines announced by putin. this was also the case with heimers. now there were other anti-ship missiles provided by great britain, denmark, and turkey . deadly drones, without giving up the opportunity to be a mediator, all these red lines were being violated under putin 's nose, despite his nuclear threats that if nato is drawn into the conflict, the war will convey at the nuclear level, this did not happen and will not happen. because putin, in my opinion, received very clear signals from these calls from narendra modi from washington and from the head of the czar bill burns, for whom i worked for many years in the state department, ambassador burns, former ambassador to moscow. as far as i i understand very clearly made it clear that if putin proceeds to nuclear escalation by symbolically detonating at least one warhead on the battlefield , there will be an intense response from the united states, which will destroy the russian military on the territory of ukraine, and therefore i think that the answer washi

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

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

well, they will eliminate putin. putin will be left behind.they will be able to maneuver. in the next cycle for another 20-30 years, as it was already in 90 - this is such a chance. and what did it end with putin and the war? you understand , therefore, the weakness of the russian position, just as it is already a tradition in that it does not take on itself responsibility for solving immediate problems right now right now and that's why she's afraid of all the other demands of these actions in the crowd of small nations in russia, you understand what the problem is, because it works on a smaller scale, it works only with a small nation, the current autonomy is possible, the future free chechnya , you understand, and we act more easily in this sense , and the program is clearer, you understand that it is only in one point it will separate itself from russia and leave. how can you run away further? and what will happen further there, this people will decide for themselves, and here. where will you run ? where will you run? position, and let the

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

they always say that we want negotiations, that is, putin , somehow this hooligan tries to constantly engage in escalations, to push so that he will be noticed, because otherwise it is impossible to notice him . only when he threatens nuclear weapons missiles and so on and to sit down for negotiations with him, that is, from this point of view , they actually want some kind of negotiations with the west, but in their twisted logic and imagination, and north korea, you understand, it still exists due to the fact that it helps them there and contributes in many ways to china. i mean in the economic sense, and thanks to this they are supported. i am not sure that china will be ready to take on what is called the support of russia. i think that they have other tasks or then in this scenario the territory of russia controlled by putin will be controlled by putin, it will actually turn into smaller borders, because more resources then russia will simply have to give to the same china for guaranteeing certain economic checks. processes and financial markets and raw materials and many other t

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

and putin can lose.and i don't think people are having an easy time wrapping their arms around this concept. nuclear weapons, i'm not awake at night worrying about this. and i don't think it's as easy or as fruitful for putin as some people think it could be. >> thank you. welcome to you and i will turn to audience questions. there seems to be growing infighting among russian elites about the war. and during criticism of the war from -- you mentioned. is it good politics for putin to get actualization as i think you know, twitter's been on fire with the possible. maybe a fake fsb order that would prevent draft age russian men from leaving the country. this is beginning to be part of a preparation for mobilization. if moscow oranges a new offensive, does putin's future rests on its success and what would it take for russia to and its aggression in ukraine? >> i'm not sure that i can give advice to mr. putin. because only -- my only advice for him is to commit suicide. i'm afraid that mobilization is somet

president putin has accused — putin. president putin has accused the _ putin.tin. president putin has accused the west of - putin. president putin has - accused the west of provoking and starting the war and says he will suspend the nuclear arms agreement. how significant will that be? tt arms agreement. how significant will that be?— will that be? it is not trivial. _ will that be? it is not trivial. he _ will that be? it is not trivial. he is - will that be? it is not l trivial. he is reminding will that be? it is not - trivial. he is reminding us there are big stakes in the broader relationship between russia and the west and avoiding nuclear war at the top of the list. in that sense, he's always playing the nuclear option when he brings it up. on the other hand, it is not as if the other hand, it is not as if the west is losing faith. it is not as if we are giving into his bluster, we've heard it before and stood up to it before. his whole theory that we started this war, you know, what i'm trying to figure out, it is does he know he is lying when he says t

putin has suspended -- the deal mr.in suspended is called the new start treaty, signed by barack obama and dmitry medvedev. it was designed to prevent nuclear war, limiting the number of strategic warheads -- nuclear warheads each side can deploy and gives each country the power to inspect the other. u.s. and russia account for almost all the world's nuclear weapons. here is an analysis from our bbc russia editor in moscow. >> not only do we see no compromise, but we see escalation with vladimir putin suspending russia's participation in the last key nuclear arms control treaty between russia and america. one more point to make -- i only watched vladimir putin on television today, because journalists from so-called unfairly countries, in russia's view, were not invited to the state of the nation address today. maryam: mr. putin's speech covered some familiar themes. he accused the rest of seeking to destroy moscow and provoking and escalating the war. he portrayed ukraine as being home to neo-nazis. pres. putin: a year