Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
Deep in the south. But in fact, brazil is a growing superpower. Its gone through an extraordinary transformation in the past 20 years. So the last time that i was there was 1997. If i was to go back to rio or sao paolo now, would i see a difference . What would i see . You would see a country whose people is more comfortable with the current. Its current situation. There is a sense of hope that has been restored to the country compared to that time. That was the time when we had established democracy, reestablished democracy, but we were entering the period of economic stability. Democracy and economic stability have been the two pillars upon which two brazilian governments, the government led by president Fernando Henrique cardoso and the government led by president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva, built the current reality of brazil, which is a promising reality. Hinojosa a promising reality. And yet, you know, i think back to the first time that i was in brazil, in 1982, and if you were a
Tropical country, you know, far, deep in the south. But in fact, brazil is a growing superpower. Its gone through an extraordinary transformation in the past 20 years. So the last time that i was there was 1997. If i was to go back to rio or sao paolo now, would i see a difference . What would i see . You would see a country whose people is more comfortable with the current. Its current situation. There is a sense of hope that has been restored to the country compared to that time. That was the time when we had established democracy, reestablished democracy, but we were entering the period of economic stability. Democracy and economic stability have been the two pillars upon which two brazilian governments, the government led by president Fernando Henrique cardoso and the government led by president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva, built the current reality of brazil, which is a promising reality. Hinojosa a promising reality. And yet, you know, i think back to the first time that i was in b