liz truss, has been addressing the un general assembly. in her speech she said her country would give military aid to ukraine until it prevails in its war with russia. she also stressed her support for democracies around the world. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has announced a partial mobilisation for this war which he claims is not a war and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mp, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you have any mixed feelings about
of a woman in custody. mahsa amini, who was 22, was arrested by the morality police, who d accused her of breaking strict rules on the wearing of the hijab. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has announced a partial mobilisation for this war which he claims is not a war and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so, what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? well, my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mp, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush tsintsadze in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you now have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukraine s battlefield successes in rece
and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukrainian battlefield successes in recent days, given that the response from putin in moscow appears to be a very significant escalation of his military commitment. definitely, you re putting it right. it is about escalation and readiness to escalate that we are seeing in this speech that was delivered by putin. and we see that he is probably trying to address several audiences, from my perspective, both internal and the russian federation trying to, not to accept that he is basically losing to ukrainian armed forces, but is trying to present this
ukraine will once again have to find other ways to get its grain out. but road and rail are no substitute for ships. this precious lifeline is injeopardy. paul adams, bbc news. president putin says ukraine s counter offensive against russian forces has so far had no results, despite what he called the colossal resources supplied by the west. at a meeting of russia s security council, he portrayed ukraine s allies as being disappointed with the results, claiming without evidence that public opinion in europe was changing. he also spoke about what he called the ukrainian tragedy with no recognition of his decision to launch russia s full scale invasion last year. how did mr put in comments go down in ukraine? i spoke earlier to the ukrainian mp ivanna klympush tsintsadze, the chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee, former vice prime minister for european and euro atlantic integration of ukraine. it s something president putin wants