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Sachin Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen of all time, no doubt about it! But do you know he even got the top spot in Wisden’s list this year?In a nutshell, Russia's involvement in the Ukraine war stems from a complex interplay of historical, geostrategic, political, and economic factors. From Crimea's disputed status to
now it's by no means clear that he can do that at this stage, although the kremlin does tend to present victories if they want to, it may not be something that is based on any kind of reality in ukraine. but there is now a lot of chatter around whether vladimir putin might use the occasion to actually officially declare war on his neighbour. remember that, thus far, he has only told russians that this is a special military operation designed to come to the rescue of russian speaking populations in eastern ukraine. the other rumour doing the rounds here is that he might begin the mobilisation of reservists, and potentially civilians, to replenish depleted russian troops. now, this morning his spokesman dismissed both of those unconfirmed reports as nonsense. but, you know, we have seen the kremlin in the past say one thing and do another and that's why as the intensification for rehearsals is ongoing across this country,
be able to take the capital overnight and that hasn't happened. well, we have had a briefing from the defence ministry here overnight and they don't talk about kyiv particularly, they say they have made some gains, captured a couple of southern cities, they claim and they talk very specifically about fighting going on in the east of the country. remember, moscow casts this invasion, not that you are allowed to call it an invasion, a war or an attack if you are russian media, they cast this invasion is a necessary rescue, if you like, of the russian speaking populations in eastern ukraine against what they would describe as the aggression from the ukrainian government. so we heard a lot about fighting in eastern ukraine, accusations that ukrainian forces have been targeting residential areas, ukrainian forces have been targeting residentialareas, injuring civilians, while we are hearing from the ukrainians that actually the reverse is happening and it is russian troops who are causing
going on. it's a difficult venue for ukraine because belarus is very much part of this war as we happen reporting in the weeks running up to this invasion, there were military exercises, marshalling of forces on the belarusian— ukraine border and then of course there had been reports in the last 2a hours that belarusian troops could actually cross the border to join the russian offensive. is there any indication where you are how likely that is? no, not really, i'm afraid. the kremlin is very keen to perpetuate the narrative that this is not an invasion of ukraine, this is not a war, the russian media are not even allowed to use those words, the narrative here is this is a necessary defence of the russian speaking populations in eastern
they are seeing round about 500, just under 500 russian soldiers killed, of course something like 7000 russian soldiers have been killed, but it is difficult to verify either of those figures. the defence ministry on sunday admitted that yes, we are going to see some casualties but this is also the narrative around this, that these servicemen, these young men have died in effect in a noble cause, defending those russian speaking populations in eastern ukraine against the nazis, against the genocide perpetrated against them by the government in kyiv, and again these are baseless accusations, but anyone watching state television here, that is what they are going to be thinking and understanding and in the meantime we are, as you said, seeing an intensification of the crackdown on independent information celsius, we have seen a radio station here shutting down after the authority switched it off effectively a couple of nights ago,
populations. russia has been the dominant power in that part of the world for more than 100 years. speaking russia is often a matter of practicality, it doesn't mean that they want russia, a neighboring country, to govern them or influence their politics. this fever dream of having reflexive control over the region was not putin's brain child, it's a russian objective that was launched in the 1990s. it gain momentum in the 2000s. it includes a strategy called passport isaih shun, dating back to the 1990s, russia passes out passports and citizenship to those living in territories bordering the russian federation. with every newly minted citizen, putin's grip on the region titans. first it's crimea, down here. then what's? he takes ukraine, and then latvia, lithuania, estonia. putin wants to believe that extending his protection to russians around the globe is a selfless act but it is an old
to protect the interests of russian speaking populations in eastern ukraine. he is seen to russians, this isjust ukraine. he is seen to russians, this is just what the west does to russia, this is our enemy. i think he is seeking, quite naturally, i suppose, to make russians, when and if they do feel the effect of these sanctions, and experts say they will feel these sanctions deeply, to feel that this is not the fault of vladimir putin, but that it is russia that has been victimised by the west. there was a specific mention, quite a lot of discussion actually, around food security, food prices. there was a specific mention about a temporary suspension of fertiliser exports. concern around that because many components of fertiliser come from russia. and the impact that might have on food supplies? yes, vladimir putin threatened unfriendly countries with negative consequences in relation to fertiliser. he is threatening to stop exports of components.
ukraine, this isn't an invasion or a war, simply a special military operation to protect russian speaking populations. isaw operation to protect russian speaking populations. i saw pictures from eastern ukraine, i didn't see pictures from the strike in the hospital in mariupol and the authorities here are dismissing what you saw on your television is as fake news because it is now illegal to distribute or publish what the kremlin deems to be false information about the russian army and its activities, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. well, the us vice president kamala harris is meeting polish leaders in warsaw on today, amid disagreements over arming ukraine with more fighterjets. the us rejected a surprise offer by poland to send mig—29s to ukraine, via an american airbase in germany. but while those talks take place, the influx of people fleeing the war goes on. and poland continues to be
deal with and everything that i've been talking to these officials for a decade or so is that they do have a significant amount of experience, a significant amount of contact, very professional about the way they go about things. they don't have some of the technical capabilities as the americans and the french when it comes to intercepting communication. sometimes to get ahold of e-mails they say help us because it's going through internet american companies and portals. it's a small country and doesn't have the resources like france but that's fundamentally unfair to say that they are incompetent. >> what the french has said to me, some french officials feel that belgium, it's a small country, as paul correctly points out, but you've got different speaking populations and it spills over to tlaheir
are more diverse than we're showing in a two-color map. there are ukrainian speaking populations inside crimea and eastern ukraine. there's the tatars population. >> let's pull up the map of crimea. you're right, there's not a black or white narrative or in this case yellow and green narrative. that was a political map. that showed their leanings. are they voting toward russia? many of these people are also ethnic russians and russian speakers. but there are these other divisions. crimea has one. there are these other divisions. crimea in particular has one. crimea has about 2 million people. about 30% of the population are muslim tatars and sympathetic toward the new revolutionary