part of the reason why the russia discourse is so debasesive, it's hard to study russia. it's far away and ocake and that gives people lots of room to make all kind claims that are hard to disprove. russia doesn't help this wills in this sense and they often o'hill size the debate -- politicize the debates themself in ways that are not helpful. one question i kept going book, to what evidence could i give somebody that would a fair minded reader consider persuasive? and there's some part of the readership that you never going to persuade so what i try here was really load the diets -- dice and come at the reader with more evidence and at the end people will think what they're going to think. but really interesting points. and then your second point but russian specificity and that rolls into steve's points as well, and this was a real tension in the book, and maybe i go overboard on trying to paint russia too much as a normal autocracy. that was something of a choice in that so much of writing about russia is in the vein that putin is unlike other leaders, that russia is

russia. secondly, i think the biggest competitor is china but here seeing russia as much more of a peer power. so there are these conflicting perceptions. and that is one of the one of the goals of the book and how i started this project is is thinking about well is russia strong or weak? and how would we know? and here we are in 2021 30 years after the collapse of the soviet union having this conversation. and as i as i will explain as the talk goes on it's a bit surprising to even be having this conversation giving this starting given the starting point of where russia was in in 1991. so is russia a global power now? and most people would probably say no. i'm going to try and convince you. otherwise by by relying on some of the data of where russia is around the world. just a quick. review of russia's disruptions internationally really beginning since 2014 and the seizure of crimea from ukraine in this low boil war that continues on ukraine's border. it is the policy of the united states no

and allies off the russia, russia. but those alaska government is being highly motivated and they do to gain a lesson from his story. i want to ask you about another comment of yours and these elijah resurrection of russian. zara expansion. isn't your suggestion? and i'm quoting you here in europe and all the countries will undoubtedly still depression much more from now on. what exactly do you have in mind? from my point of perspective, if the security concern of russia is over ukraine is opening a way to the invasion of ukraine. and if the invasion becomes successful, then why there won't be any security threats from the bulk of countries to the russia, the balkan countries or the baltic countries with you mentioned, they are part of me though they're officially part of me. do you think russia, i mean, i think one of the distinctions in. a you know, military analyst and all the other kinds of analysts is that really to people tend to take into account, you know, the capacities of various actors to go outside enough r

allies off to russia, russia. but the zaleski government is being highly motivated and they do to gain a lesson from his story. i want to ask you about another comment of yours and these elijah resurrection of russian. zara expansion. isn't your suggestion? i'm quoting you here. eastern europe and the baltic countries will undoubtedly still depression much more from now on. what exactly do you have in mind? from my point of perspective, if the security concern of russia is over ukraine is opening away to the invasion of ukraine. and if the invasion become successful, then why that won't be any security threats from the bulk of countries to the russia, the welcome country or the baltic countries with you mentioned, they are part of me though they're officially part of me. do you think russia, i mean, i think and the distinctions in. a you know, military analyst and all the other kinds of analysts is that really to people tend to take into account, you know, the capacities of various actors to go out setting up the

russia is defeated, but russia is winning.rious reputational damage, and thirdly, and here is the importance of, uh, the visit of blinkin austin to kiev a and the further holding of the event in ramstein. thing is the united states has indeed changed its rhetoric. and more clearly formulated strategic goals. that is, we are really dealing with a hybrid war, the united states is already openly saying that the conflict in ukraine is not about ukraine, that it is about their leadership, it is on the international order about the place and role of both russia and the united states in this world order. and somehow they believe that if they are a party to this hybrid war, they will remain completely safe. this is a very big illusion, because in this war two are involved, and russia also has a lot of resources, not necessarily those that vladimir putin spoke today, but including those with which russia can inflict on the united states. very serious damage. thank you dmitry for our today's conversation. oh to the remark. uh, both coun

we released information even bf russia's invasion showing that russia would engage in acts of brew tl ta -- brutality against civilians including targeted killings of diss depts an others they deemed a threat to their occupation. as the horrific images from bucha have shown that's what they have done. we had already concluded russia committed war crimes in ukraine and the information from bucha appears to show further evidence of war crimes. as the president said, we will work with the world to ensure full accountability for these crimes. we are also working intensively with our allies on further sanctions to raise the pressure and raise the cost on putin and on russia. today i'd like to take a step back and talk about where we are and where we think we are going. russia wants its invasion of ukraine -- launched its invasion of ukraine more than a month ago. when russia start shed war the initial aims were to seize the capital of kyiv, seize the zelenskyy government and take control of much if not all of ukraine. russia believed they could achieve this swiftly and efficiently. russia

e with russia that you can not push russia china to each other. actually, to have russia as a partner would be a great strategic achievement for the united states and next to me, but i was sitting very, uh, a worthy person at one time. uh, ambassador to moscow, one of the most prominent american diplomats. you guessed who i mean, but because it was a private conversation. i won't name him and he didn't whisper dmitry he said. do you understand that everyone who says this is even older than you, i, as it were, are not a very young person. and this is an observation. it was right here the generation of the cold war, even the most aggressive knights of the cold war. they dealt with reality. they understood that you can't do everything in the world. and if you think that you can run into too much. and uh, uh, gradually in the american foreign policy establishment. ah, but if you like, a feeling of own infallibility and own invulnerability developed. this is very dangerous. now dmitry they convinced themselves what is very obvious? i hope you will not

but the fact that this is a war not between russia and ukraine, but between russia and nato. we've known this since the beginning of the conflict. ukraine is just the theatre of this conflict. there belligerence are nato and russia. how we known this? well? because president lensky told us, he told us, i think, 3 days into the war, 27th of february or something like that. he said he'd wrung up all the nato member states and asked them, could ukraine join the alliance? and they all said no. but publicly the doors will remain open. in other words, war is not about letting ukraine shoes make a sovereign choice about its future as the nato idealogue said at the time, because they're not prepared to admit it to their lines. instead, it is. as you've quoted peter less trust saying all joe biden or the other week saying that the goal was to we can russia. so that is the goal. and that's why the british foreign secretary says it's everybody's war because what she means is that the west london, washington, the european allies, want this war in ukraine in order to weaken russia. that's

he's in empowered that militarist, empowered, the russia haters, russia, peter b r. u. glad that the, the ethnic cleansing of the don bass has come to an end. i hope that they settle the di. hi, so i hope i do there. so we started out of the program with context and there was a predicate, then let's not forget that context and predicate as all the time we have about to thank my guest in new york, bethesda, and here in moscow. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r t c you next time. remember, cross talk roles. i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at that point obviously is too great trust, rather than fear. a very job with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with oh, when i went to the wrong one, i just don't know. i mean, you have to shape out the same because the african and engag

our activities in russia and leave the market.essages can be respected and trusted only in cases where when the source is the company itself, danone did not make such statements with auchan. it ’s getting more and more difficult that the company is curtailing russia’s activities, its ukrainian representative office said. it happened, as they say, in a message under pressure from thousands of employees who sent dozens to the main office. letters in the russian representative office denied this information to the head office in france so far, the general director is silent, but earlier. the company does not plan to leave the russian market. this article is not true and is yet another attempt to destabilize the situation. auchan retail russia continues to work as usual and does not plan to curtail or reduce activity in ukraine ; recently he reported in writing about the attacks on the british company yulia, they did not immediately reduce their presence in russia, the ambassador had to push the ambassador writes as heroically, as if

and what does this give russia? only new losses. russia's defense ministry says they have now taken control of the entire southern region of carson. but earlier ukraine's military said, russia was not able to break through its defense line. meanwhile, fighting in the east and on bass region is ongoing. ukrainian forces say that russia has continued to show villages, like here in alexandria, co. the army was able to evacuate many civilians from the area while it stays behind to fight. there are reports about attacks in her son, but in the capital q 2 people are still on high alert with air raid sirens, sending residents to shelters a few hours ago. our reporter rebecca readers is in keith for us and earlier i asked her what the situation was. well, well i, you know, i mean here in keys the city is on high. 2 alerts there, warnings of renewed attacks on the capital as russia has even said that they're willing to take out targets here in the capital again. the battle for don bass is, as it's being called, the sort of r

now as an to russia. and this is a probably the worst case scenario for us because it was such kind of mood of the nation. it would be very hard to achieve the goals which were put in front of this operation. and i see that this kind of goggle psychological tent and you criminal society will have a very long term influence and very long term negative effects for russia. yes, absolutely, absolutely. and not only for roughly the sheep i, because unfortunately a lot of my friends in ukraine are now considered russian, russian citizen as enemies as leaders, et cetera, et cetera. so this is reading a lot of personal contacts, ruining a lot of a lot of historical traditions, historical ties, and to overcome this. current crisis will be a terribly mr. potent has repeatedly complained that the west never listened to russia's what he called legitimate security concerns. but when he did listen and ovi, western leaders trooped off to moscow to talk to him, he simply live direct to their faces and presented them with

i suppose is afraid of, but the fact that this is a war not between russia and ukraine, but between russia and nato. we've known this since the beginning of the conflict. ukraine is just the theatre of this conflict. there belligerence are nato and russia. how we known this well, because presidents lensky told us, he told us, i think, 3 days into the war, 27th of february or something like that. he said he'd run up all the nato member states and ask them, could ukraine join the alliance? and they all said no, but publicly the doors will remain open. in other words, war is not about letting ukraine shoes make a sovereign choice about its future as the nato idealogue said at the time, because they're not prepared to admit it to their lines. instead, it is, as you've quoted peter less trust saying, or joe biden or the other week saying that the goal was to, we can russia. so that is the goal. and that's why the british foreign secretary says it's everybody's war because what she means is that the, the west london, washington, the european allies, want this war in ukraine in order to we can ru

hey, if us has a problem with russia. if for you guys to deal with by that, it probably would be actually in this situation. instead, what he's doing now is trying to play both sides with court from middle as you'd like to say, he's saying on one side, look, i'm trying to take in position for europe, the best for europe. that's best for the people of france. and the same time saying, well look, where was the united states, where was nato, when were united way? shouldn't done is adopted the position that he sees himself as representing although he doesn't, and that is the position a former french president shuffled a gun general from world war q, who basically pulled france out of needle command. and the french stayed outside of nieto until nicholas are cozy in rachel, the reason why my crown didn't do it because he has no courage. that's his problem . ok. he can talk all he was, but he didn't have any. great. i'm glad rachel brought this up because i was going to go to this here. let me go to drill on this here. mate, chr

want to kill russia. we just want to hurt them a bit. and instead of stopping to warn you my a triple lot, when causing more cancel landscape, that agent might not be actually wanting to negotiate. just as the foreign minister of russia has contain that constraints keys pretending to negotiate. i think if skis really want to have a face by he should you know, surely it's between sarah in making it possible the on the scene scars of those who kill via remote controls. that's how a recent article in the new york times begins. it details the fate of drone pilots on the mental burdens they carry. but it's been criticized for i tried, ignoring the victims of the strikes as ortiz, rachel blevins takes us through. what about the drone pilots? that's the message in a recent article from the newer taiser looks at the members of the u. s. military who killed by remote control and the battles with severe depression and drug abuse . they had face after years of killing, with just the press of a button under unrelenti

i would say that russia does take the u. n. seriously. as a mediator. the foreign minister, sergei lover of who also met gutierrez yesterday, is known to kind of, quote, whole articles from the un charter to justify russia's actions. um and also gutierrez got a meeting with putin himself even if they were at the long table again, far away from each other. but i think that garage was quite strategic in his meeting. first of all, as they said, he came to moscow, which is important symbolically. this is kind of one of the 1st really high profile diplomatic efforts meetings with, with put in himself. and also he said that the you and understands russia, security concerns that you might remember this all started over the fact that russia was saying, nato is getting too close to our borders. we don't want ukraine to join nato. so in a way that's kind of him taking a symbolic step towards russia's interest. i think it was, it is a major headlines, of course, is russia holding a gas supplies to bulgaria and a poland while continue to supply others. germany, for

they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia.y reason why it would be. >> that is such a win for putin. it is such a, you know, it's like watching your enemy shoot himself in both feet, both hands. >> i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today and what he did... >> it's your enemy admitting that you are better. i mean, it's everything he's ever wanted-- it's for the u.s. to admit that the u.s. is stupid and weak and bad, and that russia is good and strong and powerful. >> extraordinary moment in american history, something i thought i would never see. >> narrator: in moscow, putin was emboldened. >> as long as trump was president, i think putin felt he had a free hand, essentially. putin felt unbound and unconstrained. >> narrator: continuing to tighten his hold on russia. >> (screaming) >> he is building up his own power at home. he is smothering out opposition. >> police in russia arrested one of the country's most prominent opposition leaders. anti-corruption activist alexei nava

having an impact within russia itself.e war russia was closely connected to the rest of the world, exports accounted for nearly a third of its economy. that's because russia is a major exporter of raw materials, from oil and gas, to weed and sunflower oil. now in russia there is growing economic turbulence. russia's path of economic growth has been bumpy since the fall of the soviet union more than 30 years ago. recent economic dips coincide with the invasion of crimea in 2014 and the coronavirus pandemic. amid widespread sanctions, a recent survey by russia's own a central bank forecasts that the economy will shrink by 8% this year, other estimates put that number as high as 15% to stop that could translate to a major drop in living standards for russia's population. the unemployment rate could nearly double to nearly 7.8% this year, because many companies have policy trading. life is already getting more expensive. at the end of march, the economy ministry said prices were increasing at a yearly rate of almost 16%. cars

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but certainly there are attempting in russia to evade the sanctions. crypto is one of the ways in which, along with others, in which sanctions the patient can occur, and although we haven't seen broad evasion, and it's hard to imagine that occurring using crypto, we intend to make sure that our sanctions stick, and when we discovered routes that are being used to evade them, we intend to crack down on them, that is what we have done. reporter: thank you, secretary yellen. the world bank president has talked about humanitarian catastrophe through the combination of food crisis and sovereign debt crisis. these countries were told to increase borrowing during the pandemic, and now they face rising interest rates partly because of the actions of the u.s. federal reserve and impossible borrowing costs. do you think the federal reserve should take into account the impacts on potential developing countries of rising interest rates? and more generally, is it time for a widespread systemic series of debt relief for developing countries that cannot afford pandem

where russia has a naval base to think that the world would benefit from making russia a nuclear power equivalent to the united states. he, pariah, i think, does not really represent our interests in the future. jack must look now. this is some of the latest footage of russian soldiers inside the dunbar. city of mortar, useful clearing, remaining groups of pro, key of military forces and armored personnel. carrier is seen providing cover for russian marines, while a bacteria and casualties from the bottles of the russian army is providing support for it than yet. republic forces while also bringing aid to local civilians, helping them leave the area of the heaviest fighting some western observers to say they're being shown a one sided picture of the conflict by their media at home. i've gone to doug us to find out what's really happening there. spanish, blogger, political, and list reuben, his birts is one of them. he sees western countries supporting key f with weapons could be complicit in what he calls a genocide. as part of my analysis of the situation in international politics, es

quarrel russia europe but the paradox is that they bring russia and china closer together of course, them this is an extremely sad story, but they put everything at stake, because the conflict. as you say existential, it will mean a complete reformatting of the entire planet and now the question is principled russia challenged the one who himself was going to challenge everyone and rebuild the whole world, and therefore russia should be publicly punished if the situation arises that they have overwhelmed ukraine with weapons, they have assembled an unusual large coalition, which, at the command from washington, it is important to show them here. this is unity. yes, they just pressed the button and everyone votes for that, if in this situation. russia will achieve the goals set in the special operation, then the question will arise guys, what can you do on the planet, except to overwhelm a weapon, to threaten, what is called flapping its wings, so the question is extremely fundamental , it is not only about the fact that china will move further, forward, watching how russia, uh, solve

he's in empowered, the militarist empowered, the russia haters, russia, peter b r. u. glad that the the ethnic cleansing of the don bass has come to an end. i hope that they've settled the di. hi, so i hope i do their side. we started out of the program with context and there was a predicate, then let's not forget that context and predicate as all the time we have about to thank my guests in new york, bethesda, and here in moscow. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here, darcy see you next time? remember crossteck rules? ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being that some with direct? what is true worth is great. in the world corrupted. you need to descend a join us in the depths all remain in the shallows. ah ah. ah with ah.

a given the fact that russia has 6000 nuclear weapons, we have 5500 in any war with russia with 10 because a global temperatures rise by say 200000 degrees. meaning.

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it's a, it's a war, proxy war between the united states and russia. what happened with russia now? i believe that this was a big mistake. they got basically lured into a situation where you had lincoln constantly saying, no, no, you are the well going to do whatever it wants. of course, if they want to join the or could join nato. ukraine was a close joining a when there's an election in 2024. if, if it's still happening in ukraine, we're to lensky probably would have been booted out. and russia couldn't done the exact same thing that the united states did in 2014. and that was a coup on the exact same way. and it could have done this in a way that there would not be so much bloodshed, but at the same time, you have to remember as much as russia was bated and who did the beating and who doesn't care about lives. a did see over and over again. it's basically the u. k and the u. s. that 11 alec, there's one thing that you might could have mentioned will never know is that in between time, the don bass could have been invaded by care of. okay. and that's was the impetus for us. histor

also on the program, russia makes territorial gains in here. as israel marks its holocaust remembrance day, we will make the 87-year-old survivor using tiktok to teach younger generations about nazi crimes. i am phil gayle, welcome to the program. russia has suspended deliveries of natural gas to poland and bulgaria. it was because both countries have refused to pay in rubles, a requirement set up by the kremlin last month. the move marks a major escalation in russia's comic-con over the war in ukraine. european leaders have denounced moscow past decision as black male. the latest move in the conflict goes beyond the battlield t the gas pipelines and to europe in what has been seen as an aggressive move, russia has cut the gas supplied to poland and bulgaria. this russian energy giant said it has turn off -- turned off the gas supply. the kremlin demand that bills be paid in its own currency as a response to international sations which left it unable to utilize foreign currency. those immediately reflected -- affected were quick to respond. hav

because then again, if russia, uh, well, many in the west perceive russia as a very emotional power,re always, uh, we say a lot of things like that, and then we do little . in this case, they suspect that they are facing exactly the opposite. russia is very restrained in its statements, but clearly holds some serious fists that can, uh, from somewhere in the darkness unknown to them. all of a sudden, uh, all of a sudden, it doesn’t matter economic political or uh, or even military and from my point of view in still time the united states uh experience great discomfort from this uncertainty from the fact that russia reserves the right to do a lot in e. further and try to probe in various ways. what is on russia's mind? and what is she going to do with e? that is, how to swing here. eh, here's the russian er russian position and bring russia out of russia from this restraint to some great emotionality. it doesn't work out at all . so i would just like to emphasize what ivan alekseevich said about the contrast between the nervousness of the united states and the strategic calmness of ru

and rubles such, russia turns off the top. but the commission chief slums down position is on justified and all except with the united states continues to send thousands of its weapons to ukraine, some defense contractors. there are a warning of shortages ahead, but that's as they clock off. huge profit with global news from the russian capital. i'm, you know, neil and you're welcome to r t international towards help story. russia will retaliate, lightning fast on decisively to any outside interference targeting its own going military operation in ukraine. now this was latin america told russian legislators today during a working trip to st. petersburg is list auto was named it. it's a if someone from outside decides to interfere in the ongoing operation and will post strategic threats unacceptable to russia. they should know that our response will follow at a lightening speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now boast. ult. i'd like to stress that all the toss of our military operation in don't bus and ukraine wil

russia must be eliminated. russia should be cut out of the world economy. they said it openly.n russian experts paid attention to it. everyone spoke. yes, okay, nonsense, some cold war is over. and the soviet union is destroyed. we now have peace friendship gum and so on. it turned out that no, it turned out that the cold war didn't go anywhere. it turned out that it was all an illusion. and if we start to analyze, we will remember that even the best years of our relations with the west, the 1990s, are big quotation marks for militants.

i went to russia. yes, they're very bad for europe and i think iraq was isolated itself in europe is very, a very vulnerable economically. and russia may well resist much better than europe calculates, but it doesn't mean that the come is not bad to rush rank, it is bad. i absolutely agree with you, but alex, if i go to you, but the worst outcome is for the ukranian people, that's the worst outcome here. and that's not in the western calculation whatsoever . i mean, lloyd austin, say, you know, to, to, the goal is to weaken russia as, as john said here, he didn't mention anything about ukraine. and that's her. go head out. this is, this is something that we, i think as journalists and as animals that we've, we've saw from the outside looking at, i mean, i've covered wars for a long time. and it's usually the united states of american baiting, somebody for writers of mass destruction or some other obscure reason that doesn't really exist. there is no calculation and they don't really care how many peopl

we are at war with russia. it is very, very important that we do not accept the framework in which russia frames the situation in ukraine, this is not what they want to present. it's like a confrontation between russia, the west, russia and nato, but it's not what happens what does. separate countries are helping ukraine to defend itself putin's regime is engaged in a diabolical attempt to squeeze the life out of the ukrainian state, what we are doing is helping ukraine to defend itself in this conflict. the minister of defense said that he is quite happy if our weapons, our artillery, will be used by ukraine to strike at russian oil depots, for example, as we have seen in recent days. you are also quite happy about it. no. we do not want the crisis to go beyond ukraine to ukrainians. clearly, as james said the secretary of defense have the right to defend themselves they were attacked from russian territory. they have the right to defend and protect themselves. let's be honest, we will proceed from the reality

faster, because according to them russia’s opinion, uh, it’s easier to deal with russia so that laterdoesn’t interfere, because russia, with its nuclear missile weapons, has huge resources and territory and so on and so for them. uh, apparently, by the way, this is very interesting when biden was vice president, they were afraid to put lethal weapons and were afraid of a big conflict, because then american strategies believed that ukraine would not withstand and would be broken very quickly, and therefore russia would be drawn in like this exhausting, exhausting war will be impossible. i was just on our program, i think, a few months ago i said what happened. why are they now pushing ukraine to war? do they really want a proxy war and apparently they have pumped up so much in these 8 years that they have such calculations . here, uh, as experience shows, the motivation in ukraine for the supply of weapons is continuous in large quantities, an insane amount of uh, well, in general, weapons and armament of ammunition and so on really create an atmosphere. uh, to solve your fundamental a

i mean, on speaking of russia, russia says that this has fake and this is in fact stage. and we are waiting to hear from the russian ambassador to the un will crossover alive once he starts making his remarks to, to hear what more the, the officials of russia have to say. but what kind of evidence do think rush, i can actually provide a to show that it wasn't responsible, as it claims none. russia has no other evidence have your, your listeners and viewers go look at the new york times. the new york times did a brilliant investigation today, and it shows it proves using satellite images that the russians are the ones who killed at all, the innocent civilians in boucher, the russians were there. and you can look at the before and after satellite photos, the russians are saying that these of atrocities occurred after they left it's nonsense. satellite images show it proves without any doubt the russian soldiers rate hilde. i did horrific things to innocent ukrainians in boucher and i agree with the literary zalinski all over the country and, and i think the world is going t

by the crisis with russia. as china will be cherry picking and getting stronger and getting more challenging for the next us president to deal with. and russia will not go away despite all the attempts to cancel it. and to sanction that, it will not go away from the map. it will continue to be a strategic challenge for the west and for europe will invest in more in its policies of the westernization d, americanization de dollarization. and a lot of the policies that the west is now pursuing will also contribute to those exactly trance with the rest of the world in other countries thinking twice before willing to invest into american banks and system and things like that. yes, i mean that he and i'm glad max brought that up because that's where i wanted to go here. i mean that the ricochet affect your, i mean, i spent a good part of my day looking at the impact of the sanctions all around the world. the lack of their lack of or though of food security and things like that all over the world. it's ricocheting all

russia's war against ukraine has taken far longer than russia anticipated. due in large part to the heroic effort of the ukrainian people. and the support we have provided. that delay means russia's military will need to stop and resupply and rebuild. to stop that from happening, we are continuing efforts to use sanctions and controls to deny russia the input it needs, targeting key sectors like aerospace and electronics and others related to the defense sector. as we continue to work with the coalition to address russia's threats, now is the time to cement our cooperation and reinvigorate the international cooperation on which the 20th century economy was built. if this conflict has taught us anything, the dividends of our shared economic system come not only in the form of prosperity, but the ability to defend our most sacred principles. let me thank you for having me and i look forward to taking your questions. >> thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. deputy secretary. i appreciate your concision and i'm sure your colleagues appreciate it as well.

you know, they want to weaken russia. i don't know if they want temporarily to re we can it or permanently to weaken it, but that's the intent and they're using the ukranian people in effect. i mean, the ukrainian country, the nation. everything that's important to you, cranium is, is basically on the line just, you know, that's a battlefield. let's use it. also a door friedman. i had a series of tours of talks that he gave back in 2014 and 15 would he? where he said that what the united states is doing is going to provoke russia. well, we don't want to kill russia. we just want to hurt them a bit. and instead of stopping to war in maya tripled when causing a more casualties, zalinski that isn't, it might not be actually wanting to negotiate. or just as the foreign minister of russia has complained that the insurance kit is pretending to negotiate. i think if so, then skis really want to have a spot. he should know. shirley is his arity in making it possible. the unseen scars of those who kill via remote control. that's o

and whether it has changed the attitude towards russia or not. am sure and there is a lot of evidence that the attitude has changed, first of all, even those who were, uh, so we pay, are disposed towards the russian the federations were supporters of the russian federation or the fake dpr, of course somewhere they expected that the territory of the rest of the donetsk and luhansk regions would be liberated, as they believed, but when the mass mobilization began, the conscription age was 65 years old and literally everyone from the streets of their homes they were taken away by the military commissariats for conscription and let into the first ranks those who were not fired upon and not trained for offensive actions and most of whom will never return, then this attitude is changing and now even with support the enemy understands that on it is not that he is not happy with the daughters of the republic, but also the armed forces and the society and of course the government will all put up such resistance that they have no choice but to use such a g

e fled, say russia swallows ukraine. it makes it that different russia. and this is, this is the russian calculus. it needs to control covertly, overtly ukraine. in order to expose and project also european influence. then, in the spring of 2021, russian military maneuvers on the border with ukraine breezed concerns. was putin planning an attack park eve in the east of ukraine lies just 40 kilometers from the russian border. people here feared their city would be in the line of fire, could have shall slip. and when i heard it yesterday, i felt pretty scared. is maria, apparently they've installed missiles that can travel, 270 kilometers. and from belgrade to her, keith is what? 45, yes. and if we get hit then that's it. that's the end. so the can, yes, no stress, it's very scary that this could reach us any more that we could be forced to leave . yes. move away and all that. because nobody knows what will happen acts, especially as rosa following independence. some ukrainians have leaned towards western europe, others towards russia. a division that could

and although russia may have failed to take, keep the battle for the east is one. russia cannot be seen to loose. i said big al jazeera. ah, my, let's bring in our guest and key of we have helena, your chain co, a member of the ukrainian parliaments, and secretary of the national presidential council. moscow. pavel falcon, how're defense and military analyst for in a via gazette, her an independent newspaper and in brussels, theresa fallon, director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies. thank you very much for joining us here on inside story. i'd like to start with you. our puzzle, falcon, how or if i may as the military analyst? what is this new stage in the war? what does it mean more to change your van for, sir, said so. russia try and in the beginning of this campaign to a kind of advance at the same time on the number of different, separate directions. it didn't work out very well. so now the of russia's reserves and forces which are clearly not adequate for such a job of moving in all directions will be concentrating in of the particular area of the east south ukraine to

so russia offers and defense to india, and russia offers oil to china. and they have since john, hence against us seems a tree $12018.00 china india has $100000000000.00. a trade between the, between the 2. in fact, india, russia only $9000000000.00 trade. so yes, that is a growing closeness and because of the economic sanctions, and this a fight between, let's nato was a russia, then try to build an order to forum via the bricks, in which, as i said, india, russia is already very close in the china, a trying to closer to chrome and says russia won't immediately cut off. gas applies to the e. u if importers fail. busy to switch to paying and roubles, giving companies until the 2nd half of april or even early may to accept rushes terms. let him put, it has declared that countries imposing sanctions against moscow, including member states, must pay for gas in ports in russia's national currency. top diplomat, sir, lab robin has explained to the reasoning behind that position my for a degree which provided the scheme as far as i could understand acceptable