Question, the more powerful and more weapons of destruction, the fewer losses, but the question still arises, what price are we willing to pay for the whole, well, maybe the word project is not suitable, but. For all this forced, for all this challenge that we were forced to face historically, every human life is priceless, every loss of a loved one for a family, for any family, it , she is a huge, grief, but the question is what, the question is that the definition of the very fact of what we are doing, what we are doing, we essentially came, we met today, you just noticed, one of the participants in the conversation said, we were surprised to find that there were the same russians there as and we, well, yes, we came to the aid of these people, this is, in principle, the answer to our question, if we abandon these people today, then tomorrow. Our losses can increase many times over, and our children will have no future, because we will feel insecure, we will appear a third or fourthclass country, no one will take us into account if we cannot defend ourselves, and the consequences could be catastrophic for. The time for kind gestures has passed, they are over, so there will be no negotiations, we have never refused negotiations, well, without , without gestures, that means without compromises, its like then, ill try to explain, when we were negotiating in turkey in istanbul, ive already said this many times, i need to repeat it again, i mean this. Ill do it, moreover, the negotiators on the other side and i came to an agreement such a thick folio, a document, in fact an agreement, a draft agreement, and so an excerpt from this agreement, it is available, it was profiled by the head of the negotiating group on the ukrainian side, mr. Arakhamia, he did it, it bears his signature, here we have it in the administration. But then it is known how mr. Arakhamia himself told the world, publicly also at a meeting, in my opinion, with journalists, with foreign ones, even the former Prime Minister of great britain, mr. Johnson, came and dissuaded them from finally signing and accordingly executing this agreement, the topic that you just mentioned has come up, we need to inflict ae. Defeat russia on the battlefield, are we ready for negotiations . Yes, we are ready. Only we are ready for negotiations, not based on some kind of wishes, after the use of psychotropic drugs, but based on the realities that have developed, as they say on earth in such cases. This is the first, second, we have been promised many times already, they have promised not to expand nato to the east, then we will see, we will see them at our borders, they promised, if we dont go too deep into history, promised that the internal conflict in ukraine would be resolved. By peaceful means, political, came, as we remember, three Foreign Ministers to kiev, poland, uh, germany and france, promised that they would be the guarantors of these agreements, a day later there was a coup, promised to implement the minsk agreements, and then publicly announced that , that they did not intend to fulfill these promises, they just took a break. Moreover, this conflict is by peaceful means, but we must clearly and clearly understand for ourselves that this is not a pause that the enemy wants take for rearmament, and this is a serious conversation with security guarantees of the russian federation, and we know the various options that are being discussed. Speech, we know the carrots that they are going to show us in order to convince us that the moment has come, we, we want, i repeat once again, to resolve all disputes and this dispute, this conflict by peaceful means, and we are ready for this, we want that, but uh, it has to be a serious conversation with. With security and for the opposing side, well, at this point in this case, we are primarily interested in the security of russia, the russian federation, and we will proceed from this. It seems to me that we somehow look too noble, we will not succeed in such a way that once again we will conclude something with them, they will deceive us once again, and we will console ourselves with the fact that. An honest agreement , which they will fulfill, and even with guarantees for us, but i dont know how to deal with them in general, thats how, do you really believe that this is possible, i dont want to say this, but i dont tell anyone i believe so, but we need guarantees and guarantees must be spelled out. Who you dont trust at all, or do you mean western partners in this case when you say that you dont trust anyone, well, i prefer to be guided by facts and not. Good wishes and talk about how, that everyone can be trusted, because you understand, when decisions are made at this level, the degree of responsibility for the consequences of the decisions made is very high, so we will not do anything that does not correspond to the interests of our country, well, what happened to macron, whats wrong with him . Hes gone crazy, hes going to send french troops into the army to fight our army, he looks like a fighting gali rooster, thereby frightening all the europeans, but how should we react to this . The fact is that. Second, this could lead to serious geopolitical consequences, because if, say, polish troops enter the territory of ukraine for, as it sounds, to cover the ukrainianbelarusian, say, border or some other then other places in order to free Ukrainian Military contingents for. The father of nations joseph vasirivich stalin and transferred to ukraine, they, of course, want to return them, and if official polish units enter there, they are unlikely to leave, but then other countries may follow their example, who lost part of their territories as a result of the second world war, and i think that these are the geopolitical consequences for ukraine, even from the point of view. Yes, i think there is some kind of resentment, but when we maintained direct contacts, we spoke quite openly on this topic, we did not go into africa and did not squeeze france out of there, but the problem is different, this is an unknown group, wagner, it first carried out a number of economic projects in syria, then moved to others. On the part of our african friends, but it is unclear why they would be offended at us in this regard, if even independent. So, probably, probably, its more convenient to be offended by someone, without seeing your own problems, well, maybe , maybe such an acute reaction is enough emotional on the part of the french president , is also connected with what is happening in some african countries, although i also know other african countries. Where they are calm about the french presence and say that yes, it suits us, we, we are ready to work with them, but in some countries they dont want to, but we have nothing to do with it, we dont incite anyone there, we dont incite anyone against france, we we dont set ourselves such tasks; to be honest, we have such national, National Tasks there at the level of the russian state, no, we are just friends with them and thats all, they want to develop relations with us. For gods sake, we too are going to meet them halfway, and there is nothing to be offended about. Well , now in france they say that there are no red lines left in russias relations, and nothing is impossible, everything is possible, and in general they want to somehow talk to us on the basis of balance and strength, which is what we dont hear from france, from the west, from lithuania, in general , some kind of choir, discordant, but hostile, but maybe. We will also have to go for a nonstandard solution at some point invite you to ask for help from the two million north korean army, for example, in exchange for our Nuclear Umbrella over half of the korean peninsula, why not, then . Well, first of all, the democratic peoples republic of korea has its own Nuclear Umbrella, they didnt ask us for anything. And as for the small states of europe , well, firstly, we treat everyone with respect, no matter what, and secondly, thats when they, these small states , call for toughening policy towards russia and taking some extreme measures , in including, leading troops and so on, these are still those states, they understand this, which. Fantasize, encourage themselves, firstly, secondly, they are trying to intimidate us, but it exists there, as for germany, there there are problems, problems of a constitutional nature, they say correctly, and if these taurus end up in that part of the crimean bridge, which, of course, even according to their concepts, is russian territory, this is a violation of the constitution of the federal republic of germany, look. These english american rockets, thats it does not change the situation on the battlefield, but they simply cause us damage, this is obvious, but it essentially does not change the course of hostilities in the consequences that inevitably occur for the opposite side, well, we now hear that they, well, the same germany. And your channels, foreign channels, all german channels, show that how many they have, how many are out of order, how many require improvement, modernization and so on, well, let it work, well, as you rightly said, there are some things that need to be done which they should think about, whoever is smarter thinks about it, here are the new nato members, finland, sweden, in general, what are they. Borders, why did they do this, well, based, in my opinion, on purely Political Considerations , i probably really wanted to be members of a western club under some kind of umbrella, why do they need this, i frankly dont understand, this is an absolutely meaningless step from the point of view of ensuring their own national interests, but nevertheless, its up to them to decide, they decided so, well here we are there were no troops there. There will be, there were no destruction systems there, now they will appear, thats why our economic relations were very good, they used our market, we bought a lot from them, whats wrong with that, but now the situation will change, with many of their goods in other markets, they are not really needed, ours dont get enough, i dont understand, but in the meantime its going to the usa. This is an everyday thing, but nevertheless, in recent years , in helsinki, especially in the Border Regions of finland, russian rubles were accepted there, in including in helsinki, in large supermarkets, you could buy whatever goods you wanted for rubles, there were all these advertisements in russian all around, now the border there is simply going bankrupt. They buy houses, they buy apartments , here everything around us is in russian, uh, well , at the everyday level, uh, i dont even think what i think, i know, at the everyday level it started to grow, such russophobia began to grow, maybe and uh some Political Forces within the country decided to take advantage of this, as it were, an everyday shift. Maybe this is the whole set here these factors led to this decision, it seems to me, but i cant say 100 , in any case, this is absolutely absolutely, without improving the situation in terms of security, in bilateral relations, and in europe as a whole, well, in the meantime there is an active president ial election race going on in the United States, yeah, without you. First, second, we do not interfere in any way in any elections, and as i have said many times, we will work with any leader in whom the american people, the american voter, have confidence , well, thats it its curious, even in the last year of his work as president , mr. Trump, todays president ial candidate, reproached me precisely for the fact that i sympathize with biden, this was. The election situation, then it is becoming more and more uncivilized in nature , and i would not like to give any comments on this matter, but its absolutely, i think its obvious to everyone, the american political system cannot claim to be democratic in every sense of this sense of the word, well, in general, to be honest, your preference for biden, it sounds quite strange to me personally, because in 2011 biden came to moscow and tried to persuade you not to run for president , you remember this story, then he talked about it while meeting with the russian opposition in spasakhaos, and gary wrote about it kasparov, that biden told this story, that he came to the Russian White house. I tried my best to dissuade Prime Minister putin from running for president , otherwise well have an arab spring here, that is, biden didnt really like you, so to speak, in general, even then you had such a historical duel with him, or you just somehow, to be honest, somehow didnt really Pay Attention to it, you didnt even really Pay Attention to the duel. It seems that both superpowers russia and the usa are playing what in america is called the chicken game, this is when the hookers rush each other, there they run into each other, and there its a game when guys in cars fly into each others foreheads and whoever swerves first, it looks like no one is going to be the first to swerve, so a collision is inevitable, why, well all. Announced that they are not going to send troops, which means we know what american troops are on russian territory, these are interventionists, we will treat it that way, even if they appear on the territory of ukraine, they understand that, im there said that biden is a man, which means he is a representative of the traditional political school, this confirms this, and well, besides biden and others , there are enough specialists in the field of russianamerican relations in the field of strategic restraint, thats why. This is also important, but not as much as for us. Its interesting that you say that we are ready for this, here is the philosopher, alexander dugin calls directly, he is an expert in geopolitics, calls directly and practically to prepare for a nuclear war, and the better we are prepared for it, the less likely such a war is, says alexander. But this does not mean that we should be measured by the number of warhead carriers, but we need to know about this, and those who need it, i repeat, experts, specialists, military men, they know this well, they are now setting tasks to increase this modernity, navism , they have corresponding plans there, well, we also know about this, they are developing all their components. We too, but this does not mean that , in my opinion, we are not ready to start this nuclear war tomorrow, well, they want to, well, why do that, we are ready, but maybe, for greater persuasiveness, at some point to conduct nuclear tests, after all , we dont have International Restrictions for this . In the usa they are in the air, they take place, we know about it, well, we are also looking, if they conduct such tests, i dont exclude it, its not necessary, we need it, we dont need it, yet we need to think about it, but i dont rule out that we can do the same thing, well , we are technically ready for this, yes, we are always ready, i want it to be clear, this is not, these are not conventional types of weapons, this is. On the other hand, a decision was made to withdraw troops from kherson, but this did not mean at all that our front there was falling apart, nothing like that was close, it was just done for. In certain sections of the left bank in the same settlement of krynka, just like they threw their people into a meat grinder, they theyve been running around there lately, in the literal sense of the word, in the literal sense of the word, which means they tried to throw ammunition there, meaning by highspeed boats and drones, well, what is it, what is it . And lets say they send a new unit there, they say theres a stable defense there, lets continue, help, they, they couldnt even get to the left bank, its already a tragedy, natural from their point of view, absolutely, thats why, why should we use means of mass destruction, there has never been such a need, that is such a thought never occurred to you, no, why . We didnt change it, because when the outgoing president yeltsin invited you to run for president , your first reaction was im not ready, as if this is a direct speech, since then you, of course, have gone through a very great evolution, if you had to write telegram to yourself. At that time, what text would it contain . You see, its completely, its like the yankees at the court of king arthur or Something Like that, its impossible to answer this question, because the question was asked at that time, in that the historical and economic context in which the country was located, in that. Internal political situation from the point of view of internal security, and all this together prompted me to give the answer that i gave, i am not ready for this, and not because i i was scared, but because the scale of the tasks was simply, well, huge and the number of problems was growing every day as if. They would do something even worse, thats what we were talking about, so i said absolutely sincerely, and if if i were to come back, i would do the same thing again the most, well, what then became decisive, you went after all . Probably conversations with boris nikolaevich, well, probably. The most important thing in the end is he , he answered me then, he said, okay, okay, okay, i understand, well come back to this, and we came back several times, in the end he said that im an experienced person, i i know what i do, what i offer, well , he told me a few other things, its probably awkward to praise himself, well, he said such positive words, and then later. He confirmed this again already in a completely positive way, i wont talk about it now, when work started, everything is completely different there, you know, when you work, you think, this, this, this, this is what you need right now, this, now, tomorrow, its gone, its gone, when you get involved in work, its a completely different story, theres no time to be afraid anymore, right . This preparation for admission was a turning point for you, it was the situation when you had to go to the bank and i realize, either i will do it now and handle it, or then i will carry out the plans that i i want, but you were already planning to work in the kgb, or i lost, then everything is different and. And there is no chance, but that russia is now also in a position where it is necessary to play abank . Firstly, i didnt have such a position then, because, yes, i wanted to work in the state security agencies and it was precisely the admission, it was such a turning point, this feeling, yes, either this or that, this. Not really, because i was told, i just came to the reception, said, i would like to work, what is needed for this, and the alternative was simple, they told me, you need to either get a Higher Education and, preferably, a law degree, or serve in the army and or have at least 3 years of Work Experience there, b