BBCNEWS HARDtalk July 7, 2024
it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine's eastern and northern border. this didn't look like a sabre—rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government — led by volodymyr zelensky — downplayed it, didn't want to believe it. but by mid—january, kyiv�*s defence minister, oleksii reznikov, felt only massive pre—emptive western sanctions could ...