translation: i don t care. you don t care whether he s still in power, whether he s thrown out? translation: not in the slightest. . mr zelensky has developed into an impressive war leader, but he knows that the war is now entering its most dangerous phase. john simpson, bbc news, kyiv. in moscow, president putin has been celebrating his 70th birthday, with rallies of support and praise from the head of the russian orthodox church, but there is now open criticism of the ukraine war on russian television. and this year s nobel peace prize has been awarded to human rights campaigners from russia, belarus and ukraine. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. 70 today, vladimir putin was hosting regional leaders a little summit in a large palace. his guests, of course, had brought him gifts, including, bizarrely, a mountain of melons.
sinking happy birthday mr. president. let s take a look at what all this means to the ongoing conflict and what we know about the explosion. reporter: this is deeply symbolic, the marilyn monroe rendition you heard there because yesterday was vladimir putin s 70th birthday. there had always been thoughts ukrainian officials might have been trying t ining ining to al. a truck was driven across and was essentially the symbol of russia s ambitions toward taking ukraine when it illegally annexed crimea in 2014. what do we know that happened overnight? certainly i thinker about agrees that two of the road carriages road lanes across that bridge have now partially collapsed, are likely uncrossable, and
serenade to jfk. happy birthday to you and this is why. the explosion of the kerch bridge coming hours after vladimir putin s 70th birthday. in kyiv ukrainians took selfies in front of a painting of the bridge blast. for more, let s turn to military analyst retired air force colonel cedric leighton. colonel, good to see you. fred pleitgen used the word humiliating, this would be humiliating to putin. how do you see it? definitely. this is one of the biggest humiliations that putin could experience, let alone something happen in moscow. this situation with the kerch bridge being blown up seen as a major engineering project of the russian federation being disrupted and at least part of
of the war. not just from the u.s. but western partners as well saying, look, we don t want this war to escalate. we don t want this to become a wider conflict. that s why they were reluctant to give them long range missiles that they thought ukraine could shell hundreds of miles into russian territory. that was a bad idea too. they were upset they did this. ukraine was warned not to do things like this, and the publication of this, their intelligence this week, giving it to the new york times was perceived as a warning to ukraine. we weren t consulted last time around and don t do it again. from listening to this entire conversation on what is vladimir putin s 70th birthday, we wonder about his psychological state, what he s thinking at this point, i don t hear that he wants an off ramp. i don t hear that he i m not getting anything from the analysis here that he s interested in pulling back. right. and when you think about the
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