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Bigger than those little peoples republics and even in that part of the country where before 2014 there was a lot of support for russia and these were russian speakers, even in that part of the country, theyre having a very hard time making any headway because people are resisting. people dont want to be liberated. >> yeah. and i mean, they dont want to be part of russia and, you know, that is i guess begging the next question. is there any circumstance under which in any peace agreement ukraine...

Stand-off. i just dont see that. >> president zelenskyy says hes willing now to accept some sort of neutral nonnuclear status as part of a peace deal. how vulnerable would that leave ukraine? >> well, it would depend on if that were acceptable to the russians. it would depend on the language of the agreement and all this sort of thing. there is some precedent for this, although we forget about it and ignore it, which was the budapest memorandum of 1994, the spirit of which sort of guaranteed, if...

Separatist republics and ukraine is not willing to do that, especially while the russians are attacking. the the optimistic thing here, if you might find something optimistic is they have been talking, and both sides have signalled that some compromise is in the making, it seems that the russians at least have backed away from their maximalist aims including so—called de—nazification of ukraine, they seem to be not talking much about this, that is an indication the russians realising it was ...

Towards. but however, the operations theyre conducting are very limited, neil. the only offensive operations that they are conducting on the ground in the entire country are in the donbas region and the two breakaway republics and mariupol. thats it. and theyre reinforcing that to hope hay achieve some success in their minds in the donbas region. so even that is a very limited objective by comparison to what his strategic goal was. but we dont underestimate the russians here. certainly, their mi...

Many of their forces need to now regroup. i think theyve had to scale down their operations. now that theyve failed to take quite a lot of key cities and we are now a month into the war, it makes sense that theyd had to revise that down. so, those attempts to kind of encircle and bombard kyiv are now being refocused onto southern and eastern ukraine. the question now is are they going to do that forjust the separatist republics, the dnr and the lnr, and the contact line there has not really move...

Sustainable scenario. and luhansk and donetsk, they know theyre going to do a referendum aboutjoining russia. it looks like russia has several plans on the table but eventually, even for these territories to enjoy russian federation, wejust territories to enjoy russian federation, we just want to remind you the fact that after the annexation of crimea and annexation taking control of this, these republics were already created. but i would never call it a strong player. there will be a proxy of r...

So tone _ children behind a wire fence, it was so tone deaf and riding around in an open— so tone deaf and riding around in an open top _ so tone deaf and riding around in an open top landrover last used in the i960s. _ open top landrover last used in the i960s. it— open top landrover last used in the 1960s, it really looks quite antediluvian and will boast of those people _ antediluvian and will boast of those people who say we need to hasten the decolonisation of these countries and belize...

Russian general has suggested what was said on the battlefield so far has been a deliberate diversion, a distraction to weaken the forces. he said russia is approaching an encircling the bigger cities not that it wants to take it but in an effort to tie down ukraine forces. once thats done russia can tie down what he says is control of the eastern country in the so-called donbas region, where russia has recognized the independence of two breakaway republics there. all of this is very different t...

From it because meanwhile, you know, russia is shifting rhetoric and saying were going to focus on so-called liberating the donbas region. theyve been occupying since 2014. liberate what? none of it seems to make a lot of sense what youre hearing coming out of the kremlin. how do you read this? >> i think the announcement was made by the people actually in assemble for the talks and thats interesting because these are not -- this is not the a team. this is not the a list team thats negotiating w...

Lead-up to russias invasion demonstrated that the kremlins real intent was to overthrow the democratically elected government and to occupy or annex large portions of ukraine. the posture of russian forces around kyiv along much of the black and the azov sea coast and central and northeast ukraine indicates the geographic scale of this ambition. russias intent wanted to create peoples republics as displayed recently in the khersan pro tense. kyiv and the capitol city was a key objective for the ...