original development is not known or cannot be traced or forced to pay. the homeowners federation is not particularly happy about that, having to pay for other buildings on the government has warned that the 18 firms who have not signed up should do so or face consequences. that could be the removal of planning permission. but standing back to look at the overall principle of this there is something important to say, developers will pay for the cost to fix cladding and not leaseholders. in the last few years leaseholders have been very worried about the cost falling to them what they are going now to developers so leaseholders this morning have broadly welcomed the agreement. 0ne campaigning organisation said on social media it was a welcome step in the right direction but needed to be monitored building by building. and they had to be patrols to make sure fires did not break out. sylvia and gerry anderson were a powerhouse couple in british television in the 1960s and 70s,
effectively claimed sovereignty over two provinces in the east of ukraine. there s the similarities. piece by piece, building by building. i don t think vladimir putin for one minute wants to storm france and germany and the u.k. there s no way that is his ambitions. that s the difference between know hand the 30s. the difficulty is that he wants to build old imperial russia. that is his dream. the complication is this. the vast majority of people in those two provinces speak russian and feel more russian than ukrainian. so this is not straightforward. it s not easy. i think what the west has to do is to put down its absolute redline and i suppose for some extent today joe biden did do that by reiterating american commitment to nato. but i m afraid the sanctions put
soldiers in there or any good military would go in there because of the cost benefit. and the cost you know, the costs are clearly quite critical so any good military wouldn t have gone in there because it shows a lack of organization and the good technical skills the russians are showing. secondly, what you re saying is correct about that convoy and about kyiv. i think we are at the end of the beginning of the first phase of this operation in the beginning of the second phase, which is the assault on the cities, which will be horrific. when you get into city fighting, you go block by block, house by house, building by building, it is brutal, it is hand-to-hand and it will be a tough fight for any army let alone the russian army and ukrainians are going to fight. they re going to fight back hard, so i think we are in the second phase of that will be the phase i think will be the critical for the world to watch because i don t think they will accept all these russian soldiers coming i
block, building by building, based on the performance i have seen so far and the significant training deficiencies that they have. urban war fair is the toughest kind of warfare. and it favors the will. i think they will struggle with that do everything they can to avoid it and use the artillery and bombing to seek that capitulation. if they don t get it, i think putting troops in the city that will take weeks, even if they are successful in routing the ukrainians it will be a tough fight. brian: if they are going to focus on the capital, does that mean this area just as a pause odesa will stay docile for now because they can t handle two major fronts? they have committed to the south. i think the better troops are in the south that s why we have seen progress there it s not
ratios. if you are in the military, you want a 3-1 ratio. you get into a city fight, you are talking 6-10 to 1. block to block, building by building, and he could lose this fight. this is the fight for the survival of ukraine. if he loses here, putin loses the war because that s what happened in world war ii. john: talk about the siege of kyiv, is he going to turn that into a massive version of mariupol? which has been decimated. the city has not been leveled, per se, but it has been so unbelievably damaged years to come back, and the impact to the civilian population, targets like the maternity hospital hit. is that what he s going do here? yes, old soviet tactics of mass artillery. kyiv is a 2,000-year-old city, population of 1.5 million, used to be 3 million and saw the scenes earlier. scenes like this, horrific.