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Away from kyiv, north back towards belarus, the russians do appear to have left some forces behind because they dont want ukraine to simply be age to redeploy its forces but certainly from the ukrainian point of view, they dont regard this as being a concession on the russian part, they regard it as effectively russia acknowledging the reality that the ukrainians had blocked the russian advance towards kyiv and were starting to take territory back. more interestingly is what happens next, the co...

Ukraine could make in order to achieve peace? well, firstly, president zelensky is 100% right. whatever is the outcome of the war, the war would be ended with the peace talks. even world war ii ended with peace talks, but it was peace talk about the conditions of capitulation of a fascist germany. and that would be the same, what would be happening here. the recognition of crimea or recognition of the so—called peoples republics is not on the table. yeah, i think that ukraine is very much like...

Come to fruition. i think, you know, at the end of the day, all wars end in a negotiated settlement. and i think, this week there were kind of in a place where it could either war with a negotiated settlement perhaps something recognising crimea at the separatist republics and neutrality for ukraine, or a long war. and i think we were kind of in that pivot point when we saw talks in turkey that did not go incredibly well, and that is being decided right now. thank you all very much. i look forwa...

Russian military are to realising those objectives? russian military are to realising those obectives? a, ,., ., , ., those objectives? mariupol remains a roblem for those objectives? mariupol remains a problem for them _ those objectives? mariupol remains a problem for them in _ those objectives? mariupol remains a problem for them in the _ those objectives? mariupol remains a problem for them in the south. - problem for them in the south. without the port of mariupol, that land corridor betwee...

He has always wanted to try and get inside his opponents decision cycle. and the minute he saw, over the last few days, some little green shuts of, at least a bit of communication in turkey -- and we want to give credit to the turks for moving the negotiation along. the minute putin saw a little tiny bit of is lets go back and forth, hes going to throw cold water on it. he knows his plan a a has failed. hes not going to be able to sweep across the nation of ukraine and decapitate zelenskyy. hes ...

May— russia is not going to win it. it may turn the entirety of ukraine into rubble, but they are not going to subdue — into rubble, but they are not going to subdue an extremely passionate opposition and the people who live there _ opposition and the people who live there so _ opposition and the people who live there. so they need a way out. ukraine has today offered one out of three russian conditions, and that is to effectively declare neutrality by saying — is to effectively declare ne...

All of ukraine to accomplish his goals. he doesnt need western ukraine. a place where people who dont want to be in his new republics or in a territory that he annexes. people from those regions can go into this western ukraine and he can be rid of them. >> general, weve heard from the white house. theyve warned that putin may try to use chemical weapons in his attack of ukraine. there is fear this is going to get worse before it ends with russia potentially manufacturing a pretext to unleash th...

Quite often the questions from the anchors will give the question -- if the person is native russian speaker from the eastern part of the country they will answer in russian. theyre not mutually understandable languages. theyre farther apart than spanish and italian, for instance. but if you lived here all your life, then you can understand whats going on. theres no phobia about speaking russian to a ukrainian speaker. >> if my primary source of information is the tv station, how do i think this...

Were back with julia ioffe. i want to know what youre hearing from your sources about zelenskyy, about his sort of, what is sustaining him, and how is he doing, and how are the ukrainian forces doing? that seems to be sort of the twist that people did not -- if they knew about it, they didnt talk about ahead of the war. >> right. i think theyre concerned that he -- that everybody has enough stamina to keep going, because the russians are not done with this war yet. >> yeah. >> and i think the ot...

Were hearing russia talking about the first phase of the war being over.— war being over. theyre suggesting _ war being over. theyre suggesting deeper - war being over. theyre . suggesting deeper russian breakaway republics in the eastern of the country is whether fighting will be focused and the west interpreting that as a failure of the prewar strategy but there was a top russian general who announced this. translation: the main tasks of the first stage i of the operation have been completed...