civilian infrastructure is one. attempting to undermine european support for kyiv is another. how s that going? well, my guest is czech foreign ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenario through the winter. is this a signal that europe needs to do much more to offer ukraine military assistance? sadly, yes. we need to do more in terms of sending more air defence to ukraine to solve this, let s say, very specific issue of russia terrorism
an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenario through the winter. is this a signal that europe needs to do much more to offer ukraine military assistance? sadly, yes. we need to do more in terms of sending more air defence to ukraine to solve this, let s say, very specific issue of russia terrorism against ukraine s population. and it is a clear decision of vladimir putin to send drones, iranian drones to bomb civilian infrastructure and also to bomb civilians a
string of shootings targeting his political opponents. we re going to have that for you. plus cnn has learned more searches could be coming as biden biden white house continues to face questions over the handling of classified material. and a college student in indiana was stabbed in the head and police now say it was a racially motivated attack. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here, everybody. i m kate bolduan. let s start in new mexico with a wild story that is raising questions whether political violence is becoming a norm. police have arrested a man for being the mastermind behind a series of shootings at the homes of state and local democratic officials. solomon pena, he is accused of conspiring with and paying four men to carry out the shootings. he had run he had run in an election, lost as a republican candidate, for the new mexico state house. thankfully no one was injured in those shootings. but officials believe that
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the front lines of the war in ukraine, russian forces are struggling, in several areas retreating, which is why vladimir putin is pursuing other strategies. trying to destroy ukraine s civilian infrastructure is one. attempting to undermine european support for kyiv is another. how s that going? well, my guest is czech foreign ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenari
personal friends and it s been a great, great personal ally as well. together we re stepping up our protection for democratic values across the world and we re including standing strong with ukraine and you ve been very, very stalwart and we look to you as well to make sure we have a coherent european response to ukraine and russia is just continuing active ways that are almost unbelievable so the brutality. together we re promoting human rights and the rule of law and will be co-hoving the next summit, the summit of democracies in march, which we ll be together again and there s a lot that we have to work on together, and together we re working on how to keep a free and open indo-pacific and,