BBCNEWS HARDtalk February 14, 2022 00:36:00
Cannot find the proper pretext. they have this habit of invading other countries but they always need a pretext for that. ukraine is the largest territory—wise country in europe. we have a0 million people. so it's very difficult to control such a country when the whole population is hostile against, for example, an invader. we proved it, for example, during the second world war. so, from that perspective, again, putin is fighting for some pretext. he wants ukraine first to become weaker and with all these economic difficulties that he inflicts on ukraine, he's trying to make ukraine difficul...