BBCNEWS HARDtalk July 3, 2024
they've broken through the first defensive line. i think they'll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting — and i'm quoting here from a leak in the washington post — that kyiv won't fulfil its principal objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this year's counter—offensive. i think they're wrong. those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days,...