bigger than in poland, although the population is comparable. so it was quite capable, a very capable army which was the target was russia. and when we have heard about the nuclear weapon, acquisition, possible acquisition of nuclear weapon by ukraine, that was a real threat. ambassador, there is no concrete evidence that those claims are true. and i m asking you this afternoon about what is happening in this conflict right now. mr prigozhin, one of putin s staunchest allies, suggested there is a risk of losing russia because of what is happening right now. do you disagree? not any more, i. i will. i do not support this statement, which is probably taken out of context. i m not sure about i haven t heard him saying this or commenting it that way. and i do believe that we have prevented already anything like that, by action. let s talk about how the war has been conducted. there has been an attack on a hospital in dnipro.
friend vladimir, his wife is talking about his 25 year sentence. it was him criticising putin for human rights abuse. 25 years going to jail for criticising the government, it shows that there is just so much sensitivity, that nobody can say a word inside russia. putin is so afraid of his own people. so when people say putin is popular, he is not popular any more. there is no way you can be popular when everyone has lost friends, relatives and the war. you can t be popular when you can t travel or use netflix or your credit card. so now it s just a question of hardcore repression and how long they are able to do that repression before people say enough is enough. we have seen this, like yvegeny prigozhin, he is saying enough is enough, he s a monster himself, but they are not getting their weapons. other people are saying enough is enough. there their weapons. other people are saying enough is enough. there is a sun aestion saying enough is enough. there is a suggestion there saying
that is being undertaken by nato countries, especially by the uk. sooner or later of course, this escalation may have got a new dimension which we do not need and we do not want. what do you mean by that? nuclear tactical weapons? we can make peace tomorrow. we can make peace tomorrow if ukrainian side will be prepared to negotiate. but for the moment there is no preconditions for that, i am afraid. what do you mean by a new dimension? new dimension, it is a long range missiles that has been provided by united kingdom. it is an escalation, tanks provided, aircrafts provided. we are not afraid of aircraft. we have downed by now 430 ukrainian aircrafts and provision of new, it will only add to these numbers. just finally, ambassador, it s remarkable speaking to you this afternoon, that you are happy to repeat claims that have been disproven. you are happy to try to deflect questions. you are happy to mislead our audience about the truth. maybe you re even lying to yourself about what is
right now? i think there always has been a threat right now? i think there always has been a threat which right now? i think there always has been a threat which is right now? i think there always has been a threat which is why - right now? i think there always has been a threat which is why he - been a threat which is why he becomes more and more strident, arresting more and more people. i think he started this war as a war of destruction. not because of nato war all this nonsense that the ambassador was saying in the interview, he started this war because he was afraid that the russian people were going to rise up against him. a good war gets everyone turned against a foreign enemy. everyone turned against a foreign enem . , i, , everyone turned against a foreign enem. , enemy. there is of course the impact in russia and enemy. there is of course the impact in russia and ukraine enemy. there is of course the impact in russia and ukraine in enemy. there is of course the im