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Favored status, god. what ukraine needs is stingers and javelins and support. but also with an eye towards the fact that america has no interest in a broader conflict here, in triggering article five, in escalation beer thats not good for american interests. and effectively would give it an excuse to vladimir putin to widen it. there is no clear off-ramp for him. he is digging in. if it worked to come to chemical weapons, i dont know what we would do. i dont think it means we trigger a redlining...

But the united states needs to be able to negotiate with, with the president of russia. yeah. chuck, can you build an off ramp for somebody youve already called a war criminal? it does make it more difficult and it certainly increases the stakes on both sides. one of the things im concerned about, though, is that the russians may agree to a temporary sanam assist and wait until the ground in ukraine begins to firm up around the end of may or the beginning of june. right now were in the middle of...

Human sources. hopefully weve got a few of those well-placed who can tell us what putin is up to. but this is a perilous time. vladimir putin has used chemical weapons on his ownis opposition o. thatss the novacek the banneds chemical substance. he turned f.s.b defector litvinenko into a human dirtyoi bomb and he poisoned with polonium to tend to another key requirement for the intelligence community. i can telleq from my experience at cia o is whether russia plans on using chemical weapons or e...

Whats the best case scenario for you know obviously the nato allies have said they will not enforce any no fly zone. the weapons you need to enforce it yourself that puts you in a much better defensive position. lets look fard to a potential -- exit here. from this horrific conflict. what form could that take if the ukrainian military is able to defend itself against russian jets and air strikes? whatsth possible off ramp here. in your opinion. >> only way for us to survive is to win. in this wa...

To predict that sort of thing, but i doubt its going to be worse. and in the process of this war being fought, do you think ukraine should engage with, consider the options on the table when theyre in the negotiations? i dont think that any solution that is envisaged right now is possible, leaving the russians in control of the donbas or crimea. basically, if you accepted that as a condition for ending the war, you would be rewarding putin for having basically destroyed much of your country. and...

Off-ramp? is there not an off-ramp? can you give us a sense of what an off-ramp could even look like at at this point? >> i think there is a potential deal to be had where the ukraine government says, look, we are going, for the time being, not to pursue nato membership. we will retain our claims to the eastern provinces of donetsk, luhansk, as well as crimea, but we are not going to take action in the near term to reclaim them. putin could hold that up as some sort of progress on his claims, on...

Ukraine is a country. he looks at it as an extension of russia. do you believe that peace is possible with him? and would you -- would zelenskyy trust a peace agreement made by vladimir putin? >> did you just hear an explosion, by the way. look, i think president putin is not going to accept, you know, and take any talks and thats why i mentioned the information war. you thneed to pay attention to what the russian people are thinking. those atrocities arent committed directly by president putin....

Like 0laf scholz in germany, they are imposing sanctions on russia, they are supporting the military in ukraine but, they say, in case vladimir putin looks for that off ramp, if he is ready for a ceasefire, when he is available to talk, negotiate realistically, then it is important to keep these lines of communication open and ready and so, emmanuel macron has said you know, these calls to the kremlin, they will continue. katya adler with the european perspective. the russian military have insta...

What else went on in those 75 minutes? i mean, emmanuel macron has held about ten of these calls already since russia invaded ukraine. hes been criticised by some at home and abroad as being naive or arrogant or being played by moscow, and i actually put that to him a couple of days ago and he said, you know, these calls are not a whim of his — they are coordinated with all of the western allies. so, i mean, he and france, like 0laf scholz in germany, they are imposing sanctions on russia, the...

To get the amp they need to. >> with the progress that russia has had so far or lack thereof -- kyiv is an example on the lack -- but if you look at the southern and western regions of ukraine, i was just mentioning earlier with the general and the colonel, that now they have a land bridge from russia to crimea. how is putin doing? what is a win for him? >> i mean, when you go in with the initial plan of taking kyiv and you struggle to do that, hes going to have to look for things that he can ca...